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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2012-10-08 16:33:27 -0700
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2012-10-17 03:49:45 +0100
commitddd937a27bb51cda5a5400df8e18e9a29d7fa8ec (patch)
treeff8c89a0c461b6fc95b4de7622e3bde46411aa19 /arch/x86
parentfa7866bad2e715a2a39fae474fe4fd2704ff8370 (diff)
mm: thp: fix pmd_present for split_huge_page and PROT_NONE with THP
commit 027ef6c87853b0a9df53175063028edb4950d476 upstream. In many places !pmd_present has been converted to pmd_none. For pmds that's equivalent and pmd_none is quicker so using pmd_none is better. However (unless we delete pmd_present) we should provide an accurate pmd_present too. This will avoid the risk of code thinking the pmd is non present because it's under __split_huge_page_map, see the pmd_mknotpresent there and the comment above it. If the page has been mprotected as PROT_NONE, it would also lead to a pmd_present false negative in the same way as the race with split_huge_page. Because the PSE bit stays on at all times (both during split_huge_page and when the _PAGE_PROTNONE bit get set), we could only check for the PSE bit, but checking the PROTNONE bit too is still good to remember pmd_present must always keep PROT_NONE into account. This explains a not reproducible BUG_ON that was seldom reported on the lists. The same issue is in pmd_large, it would go wrong with both PROT_NONE and if it races with split_huge_page. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 18601c86fab..884507e68ab 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -146,8 +146,7 @@ static inline unsigned long pmd_pfn(pmd_t pmd)
static inline int pmd_large(pmd_t pte)
{
- return (pmd_flags(pte) & (_PAGE_PSE | _PAGE_PRESENT)) ==
- (_PAGE_PSE | _PAGE_PRESENT);
+ return pmd_flags(pte) & _PAGE_PSE;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
@@ -415,7 +414,13 @@ static inline int pte_hidden(pte_t pte)
static inline int pmd_present(pmd_t pmd)
{
- return pmd_flags(pmd) & _PAGE_PRESENT;
+ /*
+ * Checking for _PAGE_PSE is needed too because
+ * split_huge_page will temporarily clear the present bit (but
+ * the _PAGE_PSE flag will remain set at all times while the
+ * _PAGE_PRESENT bit is clear).
+ */
+ return pmd_flags(pmd) & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PROTNONE | _PAGE_PSE);
}
static inline int pmd_none(pmd_t pmd)