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authorHuang Shijie <shijie.huang@arm.com>2016-11-08 13:44:38 +0800
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2016-11-09 16:54:55 +0000
commit20156ce2365d61beaa6f5a78a7a789044e0e7acc (patch)
tree0d13efa79ffbc587bd481f6def1ce2a175ca24e6 /arch/arm64/mm
parent6ed0038d5ecb307298bbb04e74eb96c4a500ad1f (diff)
arm64: hugetlb: remove the wrong pmd check in find_num_contig()
The find_num_contig() will return 1 when the pmd is not present. It will cause a kernel dead loop in the following scenaro: 1.) pmd entry is not present. 2.) the page fault occurs: ... hugetlb_fault() --> hugetlb_no_page() --> set_huge_pte_at() 3.) set_huge_pte_at() will only set the first PMD entry, since the find_num_contig just return 1 in this case. So the PMD entries are all empty except the first one. 4.) when kernel accesses the address mapped by the second PMD entry, a new page fault occurs: ... hugetlb_fault() --> huge_ptep_set_access_flags() The second PMD entry is still empty now. 5.) When the kernel returns, the access will cause a page fault again. The kernel will run like the "4)" above. We will see a dead loop since here. The dead loop is caught in the 32M hugetlb page (2M PMD + Contiguous bit). This patch removes wrong pmd check, and fixes this dead loop. This patch also removes the redundant checks for PGD/PUD in the find_num_contig(). Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie.huang@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c12
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 0a4c97b618ec..9a1069dd889f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -51,20 +51,8 @@ static int find_num_contig(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
*pgsize = PAGE_SIZE;
if (!pte_cont(pte))
return 1;
- if (!pgd_present(*pgd)) {
- VM_BUG_ON(!pgd_present(*pgd));
- return 1;
- }
pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr);
- if (!pud_present(*pud)) {
- VM_BUG_ON(!pud_present(*pud));
- return 1;
- }
pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
- if (!pmd_present(*pmd)) {
- VM_BUG_ON(!pmd_present(*pmd));
- return 1;
- }
if ((pte_t *)pmd == ptep) {
*pgsize = PMD_SIZE;
return CONT_PMDS;