[PATCH] ppc64: Fix possible duplicate MMU hash entries
The current code has a subtle race where 2 hash PTEs can be inserted for the same virtual address for a short period of time. There should not be a stale one as the "old" one ultimately gets flushed, but the architecture specifies that having two hash PTE is illegal and can result in undefined behaviour. This patch fixes it by never clearing the _PAGE_HASHPTE bit when doing test_and_clear_{young,dirty}. That means that subsequent faults on those pages will have a bit more overhead to "discover" that the hash entry was indeed evicted. It also adds a small optisation to avoid doing the atomic operation and the hash flush in test_and_clear_dirty when the page isn't dirty or when setting write protect while it's already set.
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