hugetlbfs: add missing TLB flush to hugetlb_cow()

A cow break on a hugetlbfs page with page_count > 1 will set a new pte with
set_huge_pte_at(), w/o any tlb flush operation.  The old pte will remain in
the tlb and subsequent write access to the page will result in a page fault
loop, for as long as it may take until the tlb is flushed from somewhere else.
 This patch introduces an architecture-specific huge_ptep_clear_flush()
function, which is called before the the set_huge_pte_at() in hugetlb_cow().

ATTENTION: This is just a nop on all architectures for now, the s390
implementation will come with our large page patch later.  Other architectures
should define their own huge_ptep_clear_flush() if needed.

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h b/include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h
index f0ee14c6e172..5f5434374972 100644
--- a/include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h
@@ -34,4 +34,9 @@ static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
         return ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, ptep);
 }
 
+static inline void huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+                                         unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
+{
+}
+
 #endif /* _ASM_IA64_HUGETLB_H */