[PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pages

2.6.16-rc3 uses hugetlb on-demand paging, but it doesn_t support hugetlb
mprotect.

From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

  Remove a test from the mprotect() path which checks that the mprotect()ed
  range on a hugepage VMA is hugepage aligned (yes, really, the sense of
  is_aligned_hugepage_range() is the opposite of what you'd guess :-/).

  In fact, we don't need this test.  If the given addresses match the
  beginning/end of a hugepage VMA they must already be suitably aligned.  If
  they don't, then mprotect_fixup() will attempt to split the VMA.  The very
  first test in split_vma() will check for a badly aligned address on a
  hugepage VMA and return -EINVAL if necessary.

From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>

  On i386 and x86-64, pte flag _PAGE_PSE collides with _PAGE_PROTNONE.  The
  identify of hugetlb pte is lost when changing page protection via mprotect.
  A page fault occurs later will trigger a bug check in huge_pte_alloc().

  The fix is to always make new pte a hugetlb pte and also to clean up
  legacy code where _PAGE_PRESENT is forced on in the pre-faulting day.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 20117a4b8ab6..783098f6cf8e 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -565,3 +565,32 @@ int follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
         return i;
 }
+
+void hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+                unsigned long address, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot)
+{
+        struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+        unsigned long start = address;
+        pte_t *ptep;
+        pte_t pte;
+
+        BUG_ON(address >= end);
+        flush_cache_range(vma, address, end);
+
+        spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+        for (; address < end; address += HPAGE_SIZE) {
+                ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address);
+                if (!ptep)
+                        continue;
+                if (!pte_none(*ptep)) {
+                        pte = huge_ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, ptep);
+                        pte = pte_mkhuge(pte_modify(pte, newprot));
+                        set_huge_pte_at(mm, address, ptep, pte);
+                        lazy_mmu_prot_update(pte);
+                }
+        }
+        spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+
+        flush_tlb_range(vma, start, end);
+}
+