Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: call mmu notifiers on hugepage cow

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On 05/28/2010 02:59 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 01:43:00PM -0700, Doug Doan wrote:
From: Doug Doan<dougd@xxxxxxxx>

When a copy-on-write occurs, we take one of two paths in handle_mm_fault:
through handle_pte_fault for normal pages, or through hugetlb_fault for
huge pages.

In the normal page case, we eventually get to do_wp_page and call mmu
notifiers via ptep_clear_flush_notify. There is no callout to the mmmu
notifiers in the huge page case. This patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Doug Doan<dougd@xxxxxxxx>
---

--- mm/hugetlb.c.orig	2010-05-27 13:07:58.569546314 -0700
+++ mm/hugetlb.c	2010-05-26 14:41:06.449296524 -0700
@@ -2345,11 +2345,17 @@ retry_avoidcopy:
  	ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address&  huge_page_mask(h));
  	if (likely(pte_same(huge_ptep_get(ptep), pte))) {
  		/* Break COW */
+		mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm,
+			address&  huge_page_mask(h),
+			(address&  huge_page_mask(h)) + huge_page_size(h));

Should the address not already be aligned?

I'm not seeing where the address was aligned before this point. The code just above aligns it:

   	ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address&  huge_page_mask(h));
   	if (likely(pte_same(huge_ptep_get(ptep), pte))) {
   		/* Break COW */

Otherwise, I don't see any problem.

  		huge_ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, ptep);
  		set_huge_pte_at(mm, address, ptep,
  				make_huge_pte(vma, new_page, 1));
  		/* Make the old page be freed below */
  		new_page = old_page;
+		mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm,
+			address&  huge_page_mask(h),
+			(address&  huge_page_mask(h)) + huge_page_size(h));
  	}
  	page_cache_release(new_page);
  	page_cache_release(old_page);



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