[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, 5 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index 653b8571c1ed..4c14d4289b61 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **pprev,
          * a MAP_NORESERVE private mapping to writable will now reserve.
          */
         if (newflags & VM_WRITE) {
-                if (!(oldflags & (VM_ACCOUNT|VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED|VM_HUGETLB))) {
+                if (!(oldflags & (VM_ACCOUNT|VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED))) {
                         charged = nrpages;
                         if (security_vm_enough_memory(charged))
                                 return -ENOMEM;
@@ -166,7 +166,10 @@ success:
          */
         vma->vm_flags = newflags;
         vma->vm_page_prot = newprot;
-        change_protection(vma, start, end, newprot);
+        if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
+                hugetlb_change_protection(vma, start, end, newprot);
+        else
+                change_protection(vma, start, end, newprot);
         vm_stat_account(mm, oldflags, vma->vm_file, -nrpages);
         vm_stat_account(mm, newflags, vma->vm_file, nrpages);
         return 0;
@@ -240,11 +243,6 @@ sys_mprotect(unsigned long start, size_t len, unsigned long prot)
 
                 /* Here we know that  vma->vm_start <= nstart < vma->vm_end. */
 
-                if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
-                        error = -EACCES;
-                        goto out;
-                }
-
                 newflags = vm_flags | (vma->vm_flags & ~(VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_EXEC));
 
                 /* newflags >> 4 shift VM_MAY% in place of VM_% */