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1 files changed, 45 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c
index 59daa5eeec25..876232d64126 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c
@@ -554,47 +554,42 @@ unsigned long pmd_hugepage_update(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
return old;
}
-pmd_t pmdp_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
- pmd_t *pmdp)
+pmd_t pmdp_collapse_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+ pmd_t *pmdp)
{
pmd_t pmd;
VM_BUG_ON(address & ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK);
- if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp)) {
- pmd = pmdp_get_and_clear(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp);
- } else {
- /*
- * khugepaged calls this for normal pmd
- */
- pmd = *pmdp;
- pmd_clear(pmdp);
- /*
- * Wait for all pending hash_page to finish. This is needed
- * in case of subpage collapse. When we collapse normal pages
- * to hugepage, we first clear the pmd, then invalidate all
- * the PTE entries. The assumption here is that any low level
- * page fault will see a none pmd and take the slow path that
- * will wait on mmap_sem. But we could very well be in a
- * hash_page with local ptep pointer value. Such a hash page
- * can result in adding new HPTE entries for normal subpages.
- * That means we could be modifying the page content as we
- * copy them to a huge page. So wait for parallel hash_page
- * to finish before invalidating HPTE entries. We can do this
- * by sending an IPI to all the cpus and executing a dummy
- * function there.
- */
- kick_all_cpus_sync();
- /*
- * Now invalidate the hpte entries in the range
- * covered by pmd. This make sure we take a
- * fault and will find the pmd as none, which will
- * result in a major fault which takes mmap_sem and
- * hence wait for collapse to complete. Without this
- * the __collapse_huge_page_copy can result in copying
- * the old content.
- */
- flush_tlb_pmd_range(vma->vm_mm, &pmd, address);
- }
+ VM_BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp));
+
+ pmd = *pmdp;
+ pmd_clear(pmdp);
+ /*
+ * Wait for all pending hash_page to finish. This is needed
+ * in case of subpage collapse. When we collapse normal pages
+ * to hugepage, we first clear the pmd, then invalidate all
+ * the PTE entries. The assumption here is that any low level
+ * page fault will see a none pmd and take the slow path that
+ * will wait on mmap_sem. But we could very well be in a
+ * hash_page with local ptep pointer value. Such a hash page
+ * can result in adding new HPTE entries for normal subpages.
+ * That means we could be modifying the page content as we
+ * copy them to a huge page. So wait for parallel hash_page
+ * to finish before invalidating HPTE entries. We can do this
+ * by sending an IPI to all the cpus and executing a dummy
+ * function there.
+ */
+ kick_all_cpus_sync();
+ /*
+ * Now invalidate the hpte entries in the range
+ * covered by pmd. This make sure we take a
+ * fault and will find the pmd as none, which will
+ * result in a major fault which takes mmap_sem and
+ * hence wait for collapse to complete. Without this
+ * the __collapse_huge_page_copy can result in copying
+ * the old content.
+ */
+ flush_tlb_pmd_range(vma->vm_mm, &pmd, address);
return pmd;
}
@@ -817,8 +812,8 @@ void update_mmu_cache_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
return;
}
-pmd_t pmdp_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
- unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp)
+pmd_t pmdp_huge_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
+ unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp)
{
pmd_t old_pmd;
pgtable_t pgtable;
@@ -839,6 +834,17 @@ pmd_t pmdp_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
* hash fault look at them.
*/
memset(pgtable, 0, PTE_FRAG_SIZE);
+ /*
+ * Serialize against find_linux_pte_or_hugepte which does lock-less
+ * lookup in page tables with local interrupts disabled. For huge pages
+ * it casts pmd_t to pte_t. Since format of pte_t is different from
+ * pmd_t we want to prevent transit from pmd pointing to page table
+ * to pmd pointing to huge page (and back) while interrupts are disabled.
+ * We clear pmd to possibly replace it with page table pointer in
+ * different code paths. So make sure we wait for the parallel
+ * find_linux_pte_or_hugepage to finish.
+ */
+ kick_all_cpus_sync();
return old_pmd;
}