dax: Split pmd map when fallback on COW
An infinite loop of PMD faults was observed when attempted to mlock() a private read-only PMD mmap'd range of a DAX file. __dax_pmd_fault() simply returns with VM_FAULT_FALLBACK when falling back to PTE on COW. However, __handle_mm_fault() returns without falling back to handle_pte_fault() because a PMD map is present in this case. Change __dax_pmd_fault() to split the PMD map, if present, before returning with VM_FAULT_FALLBACK. Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@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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