Re: [PATCH 1/2] hugetlb: clear huge pte during flush function on mips platform

[Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 09:15:32PM +0800, bibo mao wrote:
> From: Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
> 
> If multiple threads are accessing the same huge page at the same
> time, hugetlb_cow will be called if one thread write the COW huge
> page. And function huge_ptep_clear_flush is called to notify other
> threads to clear the huge pte tlb entry. The other threads clear
> the huge pte tlb entry and reload it from page table, the reload
> huge pte entry may be old.
> 
> This patch fixes this issue on mips platform, and it clears huge
> pte entry before notifying other threads to flush current huge
> page entry, it is similar with other architectures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
> ---
>  arch/mips/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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