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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2017-11-27 06:21:25 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-12-05 11:22:50 +0100
commit2b7ef6bdd28610f2907cd766362cf95d0d023801 (patch)
treeddf283ebeb3e9f55c57ed3e7d560e2e47bacd3cf /mm/huge_memory.c
parentf97fc9ab1ce23a8666cfe460264a6a45b7e0b335 (diff)
mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()
commit a8f97366452ed491d13cf1e44241bc0b5740b1f0 upstream. Currently, we unconditionally make page table dirty in touch_pmd(). It may result in false-positive can_follow_write_pmd(). We may avoid the situation, if we would only make the page table entry dirty if caller asks for write access -- FOLL_WRITE. The patch also changes touch_pud() in the same way. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [Salvatore Bonaccorso: backport for 3.16: - Adjust context - Drop specific part for PUD-sized transparent hugepages. Support for PUD-sized transparent hugepages was added in v4.11-rc1 ] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/huge_memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c14
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 6c6f5ccfcda1..8f3769ec8575 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1304,17 +1304,11 @@ struct page *follow_trans_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page);
if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH) {
pmd_t _pmd;
- /*
- * We should set the dirty bit only for FOLL_WRITE but
- * for now the dirty bit in the pmd is meaningless.
- * And if the dirty bit will become meaningful and
- * we'll only set it with FOLL_WRITE, an atomic
- * set_bit will be required on the pmd to set the
- * young bit, instead of the current set_pmd_at.
- */
- _pmd = pmd_mkyoung(pmd_mkdirty(*pmd));
+ _pmd = pmd_mkyoung(*pmd);
+ if (flags & FOLL_WRITE)
+ _pmd = pmd_mkdirty(_pmd);
if (pmdp_set_access_flags(vma, addr & HPAGE_PMD_MASK,
- pmd, _pmd, 1))
+ pmd, _pmd, flags & FOLL_WRITE))
update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
}
if ((flags & FOLL_MLOCK) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)) {