From 8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Zhang, Yanmin" Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:08:50 -0800 Subject: [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 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" 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 Cc: David Gibson Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: William Lee Irwin III Signed-off-by: Ken Chen Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/asm-ia64/pgtable.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/asm-ia64') diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/pgtable.h b/include/asm-ia64/pgtable.h index e2560c58384b..5890972a69bf 100644 --- a/include/asm-ia64/pgtable.h +++ b/include/asm-ia64/pgtable.h @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ ia64_phys_addr_valid (unsigned long addr) #define pte_mkyoung(pte) (__pte(pte_val(pte) | _PAGE_A)) #define pte_mkclean(pte) (__pte(pte_val(pte) & ~_PAGE_D)) #define pte_mkdirty(pte) (__pte(pte_val(pte) | _PAGE_D)) -#define pte_mkhuge(pte) (__pte(pte_val(pte) | _PAGE_P)) +#define pte_mkhuge(pte) (__pte(pte_val(pte))) /* * Macro to a page protection value as "uncacheable". Note that "protection" is really a -- cgit v1.2.2