mm/mprotect: do not flush when not required architecturally

Currently, using mprotect() to unprotect a memory region or uffd to
unprotect a memory region causes a TLB flush.  However, in such cases the
PTE is often not modified (i.e., remain RO) and therefore not TLB flush is
needed.

Add an arch-specific pte_needs_flush() which tells whether a TLB flush is
needed based on the old PTE and the new one.  Implement an x86
pte_needs_flush().

Always flush the TLB when it is architecturally needed even when skipping
a TLB flush might only result in a spurious page-faults by skipping the
flush.

Even with such conservative manner, we can in the future further refine
the checks to test whether a PTE is present by only considering the
architectural _PAGE_PRESENT flag instead of {pte|pmd}_preesnt().  For not
be careful and use the latter.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220401180821.1986781-3-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
index eee6f7763a39..ff3e82553a76 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
@@ -658,6 +658,20 @@ static inline void tlb_flush_p4d_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 	} while (0)
 #endif
 
+#ifndef pte_needs_flush
+static inline bool pte_needs_flush(pte_t oldpte, pte_t newpte)
+{
+	return true;
+}
+#endif
+
+#ifndef huge_pmd_needs_flush
+static inline bool huge_pmd_needs_flush(pmd_t oldpmd, pmd_t newpmd)
+{
+	return true;
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
 
 #endif /* _ASM_GENERIC__TLB_H */