dax: ensure that zero pages are removed from other processes
If the first access to a huge page was a store, there would be no existing zero pmd in this process's page tables. There could be a zero pmd in another process's page tables, if it had done a load. We can detect this case by noticing that the buffer_head returned from the filesystem is New, and ensure that other processes mapping this huge page have their page tables flushed. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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