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powerpc/mm: Differentiate between hugetlb and THP during page walk

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We need to properly identify whether a hugepage is an explicit or
a transparent hugepage in follow_huge_addr(). We used to depend
on hugepage shift argument to do that. But in some case that can
result in wrong results. For ex:

On finding a transparent hugepage we set hugepage shift to PMD_SHIFT.
But we can end up clearing the thp pte, via pmdp_huge_get_and_clear.
We do prevent reusing the pfn page via the usage of
kick_all_cpus_sync(). But that happens after we updated the pte to 0.
Hence in follow_huge_addr() we can find hugepage shift set, but transparent
huge page check fail for a thp pte.

NOTE: We fixed a variant of this race against thp split in commit
691e95fd73
("powerpc/mm/thp: Make page table walk safe against thp split/collapse")

Without this patch, we may hit the BUG_ON(flags & FOLL_GET) in
follow_page_mask occasionally.

In the long term, we may want to switch ppc64 64k page size config to
enable CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB

Reported-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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
2015-10-09 08:32:21 +05:30
committed by Michael Ellerman
parent ec2640b114
commit 891121e6c0
12 changed files with 49 additions and 24 deletions
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@@ -351,7 +351,8 @@ static inline unsigned long eeh_token_to_phys(unsigned long token)
* worried about _PAGE_SPLITTING/collapse. Also we will not hit
* page table free, because of init_mm.
*/
ptep = __find_linux_pte_or_hugepte(init_mm.pgd, token, &hugepage_shift);
ptep = __find_linux_pte_or_hugepte(init_mm.pgd, token,
NULL, &hugepage_shift);
if (!ptep)
return token;
WARN_ON(hugepage_shift);