This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: clear pmd_numa before invalidating
to the 3.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-clear-pmd_numa-before-invalidating.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From mgorman@xxxxxxx Tue Jan 7 09:46:03 2014
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 14:00:38 +0000
Subject: mm: clear pmd_numa before invalidating
To: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: athorlton@xxxxxxx, riel@xxxxxxxxxx, chegu_vinod@xxxxxx, Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>, stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <1389103248-17617-4-git-send-email-mgorman@xxxxxxx>
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
commit 67f87463d3a3362424efcbe8b40e4772fd34fc61 upstream.
On x86, PMD entries are similar to _PAGE_PROTNONE protection and are
handled as NUMA hinting faults. The following two page table protection
bits are what defines them
_PAGE_NUMA:set _PAGE_PRESENT:clear
A PMD is considered present if any of the _PAGE_PRESENT, _PAGE_PROTNONE,
_PAGE_PSE or _PAGE_NUMA bits are set. If pmdp_invalidate encounters a
pmd_numa, it clears the present bit leaving _PAGE_NUMA which will be
considered not present by the CPU but present by pmd_present. The
existing caller of pmdp_invalidate should handle it but it's an
inconsistent state for a PMD. This patch keeps the state consistent
when calling pmdp_invalidate.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/pgtable-generic.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c
+++ b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
@@ -191,6 +191,9 @@ pgtable_t pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(st
void pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
pmd_t *pmdp)
{
+ pmd_t entry = *pmdp;
+ if (pmd_numa(entry))
+ entry = pmd_mknonnuma(entry);
set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, pmd_mknotpresent(*pmdp));
flush_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/sched-numa-skip-inaccessible-vmas.patch
queue-3.12/mm-compaction-respect-ignore_skip_hint-in-update_pageblock_skip.patch
queue-3.12/mm-clear-pmd_numa-before-invalidating.patch
queue-3.12/mm-fix-tlb-flush-race-between-migration-and-change_protection_range.patch
queue-3.12/mm-numa-ensure-anon_vma-is-locked-to-prevent-parallel-thp-splits.patch
queue-3.12/mm-hugetlb-check-for-pte-null-pointer-in-__page_check_address.patch
queue-3.12/mm-numa-serialise-parallel-get_user_page-against-thp-migration.patch
queue-3.12/mm-munlock-fix-deadlock-in-__munlock_pagevec.patch
queue-3.12/mm-numa-guarantee-that-tlb_flush_pending-updates-are-visible-before-page-table-updates.patch
queue-3.12/mm-numa-avoid-unnecessary-work-on-the-failure-path.patch
queue-3.12/mm-page_alloc-revert-numa-aspect-of-fair-allocation-policy.patch
queue-3.12/mm-mempolicy-correct-putback-method-for-isolate-pages-if-failed.patch
queue-3.12/mm-numa-call-mmu-notifiers-on-thp-migration.patch
queue-3.12/mm-munlock-fix-a-bug-where-thp-tail-page-is-encountered.patch
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