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: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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 */
{
}
+static inline void huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
+{
+}
+
#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_HUGETLB_H */
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 */
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 */
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 */
ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address & HPAGE_MASK);
if (likely(pte_same(*ptep, pte))) {
/* Break COW */
+ huge_ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, ptep);
set_huge_pte_at(mm, address, ptep,
make_huge_pte(vma, new_page, 1));
/* Make the old page be freed below */