Commit 80a76e1d authored by Andrea Arcangeli's avatar Andrea Arcangeli Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: get_hugepte() don't put_page() the wrong page

commit 405e44f2 upstream.

"page" may have changed to point to the next hugepage after the loop
completed, The references have been taken on the head page, so the
put_page must happen there too.

This is a longstanding issue pre-thp inclusion.

It's totally unclear how these page_cache_add_speculative and
pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep) checks are necessary across all the
powerpc gup_fast code, when x86 doesn't need any of that: there's no way
the page can be freed with irq disabled so we're guaranteed the
atomic_inc will happen on a page with page_count > 0 (so not needing the
speculative check).

The pte check is also meaningless on x86: no need to rollback on x86 if
the pte changed, because the pte can still change a CPU tick after the
check succeeded and it won't be rolled back in that case.  The important
thing is we got a reference on a valid page that was mapped there a CPU
tick ago.  So not knowing the soft tlb refill code of ppc64 in great
detail I'm not removing the "speculative" page_count increase and the
pte checks across all the code, but unless there's a strong reason for
it they should be later cleaned up too.

If a pte can change from huge to non-huge (like it could happen with
THP) passing a pte_t *ptep to gup_hugepte() would also require to repeat
the is_hugepd in gup_hugepte(), but that shouldn't happen with hugetlbfs
only so I'm not altering that.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 5db7016c
...@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ static noinline int gup_hugepte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long sz, unsigned long add ...@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ static noinline int gup_hugepte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long sz, unsigned long add
if (unlikely(pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep))) { if (unlikely(pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep))) {
/* Could be optimized better */ /* Could be optimized better */
while (*nr) { while (*nr) {
put_page(page); put_page(head);
(*nr)--; (*nr)--;
} }
} }
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