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| author | Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> | 2022-12-16 10:52:26 -0500 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-01-18 17:12:39 -0800 |
| commit | dd361e5033cf36c51acab996ea17748b81cedb38 (patch) | |
| tree | 5b3eccbb296ae07feecfdfe622c6e051689308b3 /include/linux/pagewalk.h | |
| parent | eefc7fa53608920203a1402ecf7255ecfa8bb030 (diff) | |
mm/hugetlb: make walk_hugetlb_range() safe to pmd unshare
Since walk_hugetlb_range() walks the pgtable, it needs the vma lock to
make sure the pgtable page will not be freed concurrently.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221216155226.2043738-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/pagewalk.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/pagewalk.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pagewalk.h b/include/linux/pagewalk.h index 959f52e5867d..27a6df448ee5 100644 --- a/include/linux/pagewalk.h +++ b/include/linux/pagewalk.h @@ -21,7 +21,16 @@ struct mm_walk; * depth is -1 if not known, 0:PGD, 1:P4D, 2:PUD, 3:PMD. * Any folded depths (where PTRS_PER_P?D is equal to 1) * are skipped. - * @hugetlb_entry: if set, called for each hugetlb entry + * @hugetlb_entry: if set, called for each hugetlb entry. This hook + * function is called with the vma lock held, in order to + * protect against a concurrent freeing of the pte_t* or + * the ptl. In some cases, the hook function needs to drop + * and retake the vma lock in order to avoid deadlocks + * while calling other functions. In such cases the hook + * function must either refrain from accessing the pte or + * ptl after dropping the vma lock, or else revalidate + * those items after re-acquiring the vma lock and before + * accessing them. * @test_walk: caller specific callback function to determine whether * we walk over the current vma or not. Returning 0 means * "do page table walk over the current vma", returning |