From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-f71.google.com (mail-pg0-f71.google.com [74.125.83.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7911280270 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2016 02:53:17 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pg0-f71.google.com with SMTP id g1so469603307pgn.3 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2016 23:53:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from lgeamrelo13.lge.com (LGEAMRELO13.lge.com. [156.147.23.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 92si33359881plc.147.2016.12.22.23.53.16 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2016 23:53:17 -0800 (PST) From: Minchan Kim Subject: [PATCH v3] mm: pmd dirty emulation in page fault handler Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 16:53:07 +0900 Message-Id: <1482479587-4823-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Minchan Kim , Jason Evans , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , Will Deacon , Catalin Marinas , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, "[4.5+]" Andreas reported [1] made a test in jemalloc hang in THP mode in arm64. http://lkml.kernel.org/r/mvmmvfy37g1.fsf@hawking.suse.de The problem is page fault handler supports only accessed flag emulation for THP page of SW-dirty/accessed architecture. This patch enables dirty-bit emulation for those architectures. Without it, MADV_FREE makes application hang by repeated fault forever. [1] b8d3c4c3009d, mm/huge_memory.c: don't split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called Cc: Jason Evans Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: [4.5+] Fixes: b8d3c4c3009d ("mm/huge_memory.c: don't split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called") Reported-and-Tested-by: Andreas Schwab Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim --- * from v2 * Add acked-by/tested-by * from v1 * Remove __handle_mm_fault part - Kirill mm/huge_memory.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 10eedbf..29ec8a4 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -883,15 +883,17 @@ void huge_pmd_set_accessed(struct vm_fault *vmf, pmd_t orig_pmd) { pmd_t entry; unsigned long haddr; + bool write = vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE; vmf->ptl = pmd_lock(vmf->vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd); if (unlikely(!pmd_same(*vmf->pmd, orig_pmd))) goto unlock; entry = pmd_mkyoung(orig_pmd); + if (write) + entry = pmd_mkdirty(entry); haddr = vmf->address & HPAGE_PMD_MASK; - if (pmdp_set_access_flags(vmf->vma, haddr, vmf->pmd, entry, - vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)) + if (pmdp_set_access_flags(vmf->vma, haddr, vmf->pmd, entry, write)) update_mmu_cache_pmd(vmf->vma, vmf->address, vmf->pmd); unlock: -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org