Hi, Vlastimil noted that pmdp_invalidate() is not atomic and we can loose dirty and access bits if CPU sets them after pmdp dereference, but before set_pmd_at(). The bug doesn't lead to user-visible misbehaviour in current kernel, but fixing this would be critical for future work on THP: both huge-ext4 and THP swap out rely on proper dirty tracking. Unfortunately, there's no way to address the issue in a generic way. We need to fix all architectures that support THP one-by-one. All architectures that have THP supported have to provide atomic pmdp_invalidate() that returns previous value. If generic implementation of pmdp_invalidate() is used, architecture needs to provide atomic pmdp_estabish(). pmdp_estabish() is not used out-side generic implementation of pmdp_invalidate() so far, but I think this can change in the future. I've fixed the issue for x86, but I need help with the rest. So far THP is supported on 7 architectures, beyond x86: - arc; - arm; - arm64; - mips; - power; - s390; - sparc; Please, help me with them. v2: - Introduce pmdp_estabish(), instead of pmdp_mknonpresent(); - Change pmdp_invalidate() to return previous value of the pmd; arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 8 ++++---- include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 2 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 29 ++++++++++++----------------- mm/pgtable-generic.c | 9 +++++---- 6 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
