From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f200.google.com (mail-pf0-f200.google.com [209.85.192.200]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508556B02FD for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2017 09:52:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pf0-f200.google.com with SMTP id s65so695715pfi.14 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2017 06:52:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com. [134.134.136.24]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s2si60483pgr.230.2017.06.14.06.52.31 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 14 Jun 2017 06:52:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Subject: [PATCH 2/3] mm: Do not loose dirty and access bits in pmdp_invalidate() Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:51:42 +0300 Message-Id: <20170614135143.25068-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20170614135143.25068-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> References: <20170614135143.25068-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton , Vlastimil Babka , Vineet Gupta , Russell King , Will Deacon , Catalin Marinas , Ralf Baechle , "David S. Miller" , Heiko Carstens Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" , Martin Schwidefsky , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Kirill A. Shutemov" Vlastimil noted that pmdp_invalidate() is not atomic and we can loose dirty and access bits if CPU sets them after pmdp dereference, but before set_pmd_at(). The bug doesn't lead to user-visible misbehaviour in current kernel. Loosing access bit can lead to sub-optimal reclaim behaviour for THP, but nothing destructive. Loosing dirty bit is not a big deal too: we would make page dirty unconditionally on splitting huge page. The fix is critical for future work on THP: both huge-ext4 and THP swap out rely on proper dirty tracking. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka --- mm/pgtable-generic.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/pgtable-generic.c b/mm/pgtable-generic.c index c99d9512a45b..68094fa190d1 100644 --- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c +++ b/mm/pgtable-generic.c @@ -182,8 +182,7 @@ pgtable_t pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmdp) void pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp) { - pmd_t entry = *pmdp; - set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, pmd_mknotpresent(entry)); + pmdp_mknotpresent(pmdp); flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE); } #endif -- 2.11.0 -- 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