mm: clear pmd_numa before invalidating
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:08:34 +0000 (17:08 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 03:04:51 +0000 (19:04 -0800)
On x86, PMD entries are similar to _PAGE_PROTNONE protection and are
handled as NUMA hinting faults.  The following two page table protection
bits are what defines them

_PAGE_NUMA:set _PAGE_PRESENT:clear

A PMD is considered present if any of the _PAGE_PRESENT, _PAGE_PROTNONE,
_PAGE_PSE or _PAGE_NUMA bits are set.  If pmdp_invalidate encounters a
pmd_numa, it clears the present bit leaving _PAGE_NUMA which will be
considered not present by the CPU but present by pmd_present.  The
existing caller of pmdp_invalidate should handle it but it's an
inconsistent state for a PMD.  This patch keeps the state consistent
when calling pmdp_invalidate.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/pgtable-generic.c

index cbb38545d9d6ab8d96ebcdb001ed9e19db772f59..e84cad27a80123194781a9dfff8188ac5bc33482 100644 (file)
@@ -191,6 +191,9 @@ pgtable_t pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmdp)
 void pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
                     pmd_t *pmdp)
 {
+       pmd_t entry = *pmdp;
+       if (pmd_numa(entry))
+               entry = pmd_mknonnuma(entry);
        set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, pmd_mknotpresent(*pmdp));
        flush_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
 }