From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y 1/6] mm/hugetlb: make detecting shared pte more reliable
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:01:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260218110129.41578-2-david@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260218110129.41578-1-david@kernel.org>
From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
If the pagetables are shared, we shouldn't copy or take references. Since
src could have unshared and dst shares with another vma, huge_pte_none()
is thus used to determine whether dst_pte is shared. But this check isn't
reliable. A shared pte could have pte none in pagetable in fact. The
page count of ptep page should be checked here in order to reliably
determine whether pte is shared.
[lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com: remove unused local variable dst_entry in copy_hugetlb_page_range()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220822082525.26071-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220816130553.31406-7-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 3aa4ed8040e1535d95c03cef8b52cf11bf0d8546)
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 21 ++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 70ceac102a8d..c0719ece2b7f 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -4304,7 +4304,7 @@ hugetlb_install_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr
int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
- pte_t *src_pte, *dst_pte, entry, dst_entry;
+ pte_t *src_pte, *dst_pte, entry;
struct page *ptepage;
unsigned long addr;
bool cow = is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags);
@@ -4343,28 +4343,23 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
/*
* If the pagetables are shared don't copy or take references.
- * dst_pte == src_pte is the common case of src/dest sharing.
*
+ * dst_pte == src_pte is the common case of src/dest sharing.
* However, src could have 'unshared' and dst shares with
- * another vma. If dst_pte !none, this implies sharing.
- * Check here before taking page table lock, and once again
- * after taking the lock below.
+ * another vma. So page_count of ptep page is checked instead
+ * to reliably determine whether pte is shared.
*/
- dst_entry = huge_ptep_get(dst_pte);
- if ((dst_pte == src_pte) || !huge_pte_none(dst_entry))
+ if (page_count(virt_to_page(dst_pte)) > 1)
continue;
dst_ptl = huge_pte_lock(h, dst, dst_pte);
src_ptl = huge_pte_lockptr(h, src, src_pte);
spin_lock_nested(src_ptl, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
entry = huge_ptep_get(src_pte);
- dst_entry = huge_ptep_get(dst_pte);
again:
- if (huge_pte_none(entry) || !huge_pte_none(dst_entry)) {
+ if (huge_pte_none(entry)) {
/*
- * Skip if src entry none. Also, skip in the
- * unlikely case dst entry !none as this implies
- * sharing with another vma.
+ * Skip if src entry none.
*/
;
} else if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_migration(entry) ||
@@ -4423,7 +4418,7 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
restore_reserve_on_error(h, vma, addr,
new);
put_page(new);
- /* dst_entry won't change as in child */
+ /* huge_ptep of dst_pte won't change as in child */
goto again;
}
hugetlb_install_page(vma, dst_pte, addr, new);
--
2.43.0
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[not found] <2026012608-tulip-moisten-c6f6@gregkh>
2026-02-18 11:01 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 0/6] mm/hugetlb: fixes for PMD table sharing (incl. using mmu_gather) David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-18 11:01 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-02-18 11:01 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 2/6] mm/hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range() to use ->pt_share_count David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-18 11:01 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 3/6] mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb_pmd_shared() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-18 11:01 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 4/6] mm/hugetlb: fix two comments related to huge_pmd_unshare() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-18 11:01 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 5/6] mm/rmap: " David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-18 11:01 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 6/6] mm/hugetlb: fix excessive IPI broadcasts when unsharing PMD tables using mmu_gather David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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