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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2012-10-08 19:33:27 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-09 03:22:57 -0400
commit027ef6c87853b0a9df53175063028edb4950d476 (patch)
treeccd9f65107923898792c630d2246b66e2420465d
parent00ea8990aadf754bbbb46ae85d4f2afba19508d8 (diff)
mm: thp: fix pmd_present for split_huge_page and PROT_NONE with THP
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> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-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 fc9948465293..a1f780d45f76 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)
146 146
147static inline int pmd_large(pmd_t pte) 147static inline int pmd_large(pmd_t pte)
148{ 148{
149 return (pmd_flags(pte) & (_PAGE_PSE | _PAGE_PRESENT)) == 149 return pmd_flags(pte) & _PAGE_PSE;
150 (_PAGE_PSE | _PAGE_PRESENT);
151} 150}
152 151
153#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 152#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
@@ -415,7 +414,13 @@ static inline int pte_hidden(pte_t pte)
415 414
416static inline int pmd_present(pmd_t pmd) 415static inline int pmd_present(pmd_t pmd)
417{ 416{
418 return pmd_flags(pmd) & _PAGE_PRESENT; 417 /*
418 * Checking for _PAGE_PSE is needed too because
419 * split_huge_page will temporarily clear the present bit (but
420 * the _PAGE_PSE flag will remain set at all times while the
421 * _PAGE_PRESENT bit is clear).
422 */
423 return pmd_flags(pmd) & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PROTNONE | _PAGE_PSE);
419} 424}
420 425
421static inline int pmd_none(pmd_t pmd) 426static inline int pmd_none(pmd_t pmd)