[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for i386

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>

arch/i386/mm/fault.c

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 extern void die(const char *,struct pt_regs *,long);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
+ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(notify_page_fault_chain);
+int register_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
+{
+	vmalloc_sync_all();
+	return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&notify_page_fault_chain, nb);
+}
+
+int unregister_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
+{
+	return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&notify_page_fault_chain, nb);
+}
+
+static inline int notify_page_fault(enum die_val val, const char *str,
+			struct pt_regs *regs, long err, int trap, int sig)
+{
+	struct die_args args = {
+		.regs = regs,
+		.str = str,
+		.err = err,
+		.trapnr = trap,
+		.signr = sig
+	};
+	return atomic_notifier_call_chain(&notify_page_fault_chain, val, &args);
+}
+#else
+static inline int notify_page_fault(enum die_val val, const char *str,
+			struct pt_regs *regs, long err, int trap, int sig)
+{
+	return NOTIFY_DONE;
+}
+#endif
+
+
 /*
  * Unlock any spinlocks which will prevent us from getting the
  * message out 
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 	if (unlikely(address >= TASK_SIZE)) {
 		if (!(error_code & 0x0000000d) && vmalloc_fault(address) >= 0)
 			return;
-		if (notify_die(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "page fault", regs, error_code, 14,
+		if (notify_page_fault(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "page fault", regs, error_code, 14,
 						SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP)
 			return;
 		/*
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 		goto bad_area_nosemaphore;
 	}
 
-	if (notify_die(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "page fault", regs, error_code, 14,
+	if (notify_page_fault(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "page fault", regs, error_code, 14,
 					SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP)
 		return;
 

include/asm-i386/kdebug.h

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 extern int register_die_notifier(struct notifier_block *);
 extern int unregister_die_notifier(struct notifier_block *);
+extern int register_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *);
+extern int unregister_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *);
 extern struct atomic_notifier_head i386die_chain;