On 5/22/19 7:18 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Mon, 20 May 2019 11:17:32 +0800 Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:A few new fields were added to mmu_gather to make TLB flush smarter for huge page by telling what level of page table is changed. __tlb_reset_range() is used to reset all these page table state to unchanged, which is called by TLB flush for parallel mapping changes for the same range under non-exclusive lock (i.e. read mmap_sem). Before commit dd2283f2605e ("mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in munmap"), the syscalls (e.g. MADV_DONTNEED, MADV_FREE) which may update PTEs in parallel don't remove page tables. But, the forementioned commit may do munmap() under read mmap_sem and free page tables. This may result in program hang on aarch64 reported by Jan Stancek. The problem could be reproduced by his test program with slightly modified below. ... Use fullmm flush since it yields much better performance on aarch64 and non-fullmm doesn't yields significant difference on x86. The original proposed fix came from Jan Stancek who mainly debugged this issue, I just wrapped up everything together.Thanks. I'll add Fixes: dd2283f2605e ("mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in munmap") to this.
Thanks, Andrew.
