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powerpc/mm/thp: Make page table walk safe against thp split/collapse

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We can disable a THP split or a hugepage collapse by disabling irq.
We do send IPI to all the cpus in the early part of split/collapse,
and disabling local irq ensure we don't make progress with
split/collapse. If the THP is getting split we return NULL from
find_linux_pte_or_hugepte(). For all the current callers it should be ok.
We need to be careful if we want to use returned pte_t pointer outside
the irq disabled region. W.r.t to THP split, the pfn remains the same,
but then a hugepage collapse will result in a pfn change. There are
few steps we can take to avoid a hugepage collapse.One way is to take page
reference inside the irq disable region. Other option is to take
mmap_sem so that a parallel collapse will not happen. We can also
disable collapse by taking pmd_lock. Another method used by kvm
subsystem is to check whether we had a mmu_notifer update in between
using mmu_notifier_retry().

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-03-30 10:41:03 +05:30
committed by Michael Ellerman
parent dac5657067
commit 691e95fd73
9 changed files with 88 additions and 36 deletions
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arch/powerpc/kernel/io-workarounds.c
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@@ -71,15 +71,15 @@ struct iowa_bus *iowa_mem_find_bus(const PCI_IO_ADDR addr)
vaddr = (unsigned long)PCI_FIX_ADDR(addr);
if (vaddr < PHB_IO_BASE || vaddr >= PHB_IO_END)
return NULL;
ptep = find_linux_pte_or_hugepte(init_mm.pgd, vaddr,
/*
* We won't find huge pages here (iomem). Also can't hit
* a page table free due to init_mm
*/
ptep = __find_linux_pte_or_hugepte(init_mm.pgd, vaddr,
&hugepage_shift);
if (ptep == NULL)
paddr = 0;
else {
/*
* we don't have hugepages backing iomem
*/
WARN_ON(hugepage_shift);
paddr = pte_pfn(*ptep) << PAGE_SHIFT;
}