The patch titled Subject: mm: do not lose dirty and accessed bits in pmdp_invalidate() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-do-not-lose-dirty-and-access-bits-in-pmdp_invalidate.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: do not lose dirty and accessed bits in pmdp_invalidate() Vlastimil noted that pmdp_invalidate() is not atomic and we can lose dirty and access bits if CPU sets them after pmdp dereference, but before set_pmd_at(). The patch change pmdp_invalidate() to make the entry non-present atomically and return previous value of the entry. This value can be used to check if CPU set dirty/accessed bits under us. The race window is very small and I haven't seen any reports that can be attributed to the bug. For this reason, I don't think backporting to stable trees needed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171213105756.69879-11-kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 2 +- mm/pgtable-generic.c | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN include/asm-generic/pgtable.h~mm-do-not-lose-dirty-and-access-bits-in-pmdp_invalidate include/asm-generic/pgtable.h --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h~mm-do-not-lose-dirty-and-access-bits-in-pmdp_invalidate +++ a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static inline pmd_t generic_pmdp_establi #endif #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_INVALIDATE -extern void pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, +extern pmd_t pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp); #endif diff -puN mm/pgtable-generic.c~mm-do-not-lose-dirty-and-access-bits-in-pmdp_invalidate mm/pgtable-generic.c --- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c~mm-do-not-lose-dirty-and-access-bits-in-pmdp_invalidate +++ a/mm/pgtable-generic.c @@ -181,12 +181,12 @@ pgtable_t pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(st #endif #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_INVALIDATE -void pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, +pmd_t pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp) { - pmd_t entry = *pmdp; - set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, pmd_mknotpresent(entry)); + pmd_t old = pmdp_establish(vma, address, pmdp, pmd_mknotpresent(*pmdp)); flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE); + return old; } #endif _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html