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Commit 8fe627ec authored by Gerald Schaefer's avatar Gerald Schaefer Committed by Linus Torvalds
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hugetlbfs: add missing TLB flush to hugetlb_cow() 



A cow break on a hugetlbfs page with page_count > 1 will set a new pte with
set_huge_pte_at(), w/o any tlb flush operation.  The old pte will remain in
the tlb and subsequent write access to the page will result in a page fault
loop, for as long as it may take until the tlb is flushed from somewhere else.
 This patch introduces an architecture-specific huge_ptep_clear_flush()
function, which is called before the the set_huge_pte_at() in hugetlb_cow().

ATTENTION: This is just a nop on all architectures for now, the s390
implementation will come with our large page patch later.  Other architectures
should define their own huge_ptep_clear_flush() if needed.

Acked-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6d779079

include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h

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@@ -34,4 +34,9 @@ static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, 
	return ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, ptep);

}



static inline void huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,

					 unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)

{

}



#endif /* _ASM_IA64_HUGETLB_H */

include/asm-powerpc/hugetlb.h

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@@ -34,4 +34,9 @@ static inline void hugetlb_prefault_arch_hook(struct mm_struct *mm) 
{

}



static inline void huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,

					 unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)

{

}



#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_HUGETLB_H */

include/asm-sh/hugetlb.h

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@@ -46,4 +46,9 @@ static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, 
	return ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, ptep);

}



static inline void huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,

					 unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)

{

}



#endif /* _ASM_SH_HUGETLB_H */

include/asm-sparc64/hugetlb.h

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@@ -39,4 +39,9 @@ static inline void hugetlb_free_pgd_range(struct mmu_gather **tlb, 
	free_pgd_range(tlb, addr, end, floor, ceiling);

}



static inline void huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,

					 unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)

{

}



#endif /* _ASM_SPARC64_HUGETLB_H */

include/asm-x86/hugetlb.h

+5 −0
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@@ -46,4 +46,9 @@ static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, 
	return ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, ptep);

}



static inline void huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,

					 unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)

{

}



#endif /* _ASM_X86_HUGETLB_H */