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mm: thp: fix pmd_present for split_huge_page and PROT_NONE with THP

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In many places !pmd_present has been converted to pmd_none.  For pmds
that's equivalent and pmd_none is quicker so using pmd_none is better.

However (unless we delete pmd_present) we should provide an accurate
pmd_present too.  This will avoid the risk of code thinking the pmd is non
present because it's under __split_huge_page_map, see the pmd_mknotpresent
there and the comment above it.

If the page has been mprotected as PROT_NONE, it would also lead to a
pmd_present false negative in the same way as the race with
split_huge_page.

Because the PSE bit stays on at all times (both during split_huge_page and
when the _PAGE_PROTNONE bit get set), we could only check for the PSE bit,
but checking the PROTNONE bit too is still good to remember pmd_present
must always keep PROT_NONE into account.

This explains a not reproducible BUG_ON that was seldom reported on the
lists.

The same issue is in pmd_large, it would go wrong with both PROT_NONE and
if it races with split_huge_page.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrea Arcangeli 2012-10-08 16:33:27 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 00ea8990aa
commit 027ef6c878
1 changed files with 8 additions and 3 deletions
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arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
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@ -146,8 +146,7 @@ static inline unsigned long pmd_pfn(pmd_t pmd)
static inline int pmd_large(pmd_t pte)
{
return (pmd_flags(pte) & (_PAGE_PSE | _PAGE_PRESENT)) ==
(_PAGE_PSE | _PAGE_PRESENT);
return pmd_flags(pte) & _PAGE_PSE;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
@ -415,7 +414,13 @@ static inline int pte_hidden(pte_t pte)
static inline int pmd_present(pmd_t pmd)
{
return pmd_flags(pmd) & _PAGE_PRESENT;
/*
* Checking for _PAGE_PSE is needed too because
* split_huge_page will temporarily clear the present bit (but
* the _PAGE_PSE flag will remain set at all times while the
* _PAGE_PRESENT bit is clear).
*/
return pmd_flags(pmd) & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PROTNONE | _PAGE_PSE);
}
static inline int pmd_none(pmd_t pmd)