Subject: [PATCH 2/3] hugetlbfs: add missing TLB flush to hugetlb_cow() From: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxx> A cow break on a hugetlbfs page with page_count > 1 will set a new pte with set_huge_pte_at(), w/o any tlb flush operation. The old pte will remain in the tlb and subsequent write access to the page will result in a page fault loop, for as long as it may take until the tlb is flushed from somewhere else. This patch introduces an architecture-specific huge_ptep_clear_flush() function, which is called before the the set_huge_pte_at() in hugetlb_cow(). ATTENTION: This is just a nop on all architectures for now, the s390 implementation will come with our large page patch later. Other architectures should define their own huge_ptep_clear_flush() if needed. Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h | 5 +++++ include/asm-powerpc/hugetlb.h | 5 +++++ include/asm-sh/hugetlb.h | 5 +++++ include/asm-sparc64/hugetlb.h | 5 +++++ include/asm-x86/hugetlb.h | 5 +++++ mm/hugetlb.c | 1 + 6 files changed, 26 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.25-rc8/mm/hugetlb.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.25-rc8.orig/mm/hugetlb.c +++ linux-2.6.25-rc8/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -875,6 +875,7 @@ static int hugetlb_cow(struct mm_struct ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address & HPAGE_MASK); if (likely(pte_same(*ptep, pte))) { /* Break COW */ + 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 */ Index: linux-2.6.25-rc8/include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.25-rc8.orig/include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h +++ linux-2.6.25-rc8/include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h @@ -34,4 +34,9 @@ static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get_and_cl return ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, ptep); } +static inline void huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep) +{ +} + #endif /* _ASM_IA64_HUGETLB_H */ Index: linux-2.6.25-rc8/include/asm-powerpc/hugetlb.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.25-rc8.orig/include/asm-powerpc/hugetlb.h +++ linux-2.6.25-rc8/include/asm-powerpc/hugetlb.h @@ -34,4 +34,9 @@ static inline void hugetlb_prefault_arch { } +static inline void huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep) +{ +} + #endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_HUGETLB_H */ Index: linux-2.6.25-rc8/include/asm-sh/hugetlb.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.25-rc8.orig/include/asm-sh/hugetlb.h +++ linux-2.6.25-rc8/include/asm-sh/hugetlb.h @@ -46,4 +46,9 @@ static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get_and_cl return ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, ptep); } +static inline void huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep) +{ +} + #endif /* _ASM_SH_HUGETLB_H */ Index: linux-2.6.25-rc8/include/asm-sparc64/hugetlb.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.25-rc8.orig/include/asm-sparc64/hugetlb.h +++ linux-2.6.25-rc8/include/asm-sparc64/hugetlb.h @@ -39,4 +39,9 @@ static inline void hugetlb_free_pgd_rang free_pgd_range(tlb, addr, end, floor, ceiling); } +static inline void huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep) +{ +} + #endif /* _ASM_SPARC64_HUGETLB_H */ Index: linux-2.6.25-rc8/include/asm-x86/hugetlb.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.25-rc8.orig/include/asm-x86/hugetlb.h +++ linux-2.6.25-rc8/include/asm-x86/hugetlb.h @@ -46,4 +46,9 @@ static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get_and_cl return ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, ptep); } +static inline void huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep) +{ +} + #endif /* _ASM_X86_HUGETLB_H */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html