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| author |   Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> | 2018-01-31 16:18:16 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-01-31 17:18:38 -0800 |
| commit | d52605d7cb306aaf86d0e6dede275dbf8a020072 (patch) | |
| tree | 2763bc71c0ebeb57c4ea93d95c030623ceb62060 /include/asm-generic | |
| parent | x86/mm: provide pmdp_establish() helper (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-d52605d7cb306aaf86d0e6dede275dbf8a020072.tar.xz linux-dev-d52605d7cb306aaf86d0e6dede275dbf8a020072.zip | |
mm: do not lose dirty and accessed bits in pmdp_invalidate()
Vlastimil noted that pmdp_invalidate() is not atomic and we can lose
dirty and access bits if CPU sets them after pmdp dereference, but
before set_pmd_at().
The patch change pmdp_invalidate() to make the entry non-present
atomically and return previous value of the entry. This value can be
used to check if CPU set dirty/accessed bits under us.
The race window is very small and I haven't seen any reports that can be
attributed to the bug. For this reason, I don't think backporting to
stable trees needed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171213105756.69879-11-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h index 118ca2eb7a32..51eebd7546b2 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static inline pmd_t generic_pmdp_establish(struct vm_area_struct *vma, #endif #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_INVALIDATE -extern void pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, +extern pmd_t pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp); #endif |