This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/thp: Fix crash on mremap
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:
powerpc-thp-fix-crash-on-mremap.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 b3084f4db3aeb991c507ca774337c7e7893ed04f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:34:24 +0530
Subject: powerpc/thp: Fix crash on mremap
From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit b3084f4db3aeb991c507ca774337c7e7893ed04f upstream.
This patch fix the below crash
NIP [c00000000004cee4] .__hash_page_thp+0x2a4/0x440
LR [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0
...
Call Trace:
[c000000736103c40] [00001ffffb000000] 0x1ffffb000000(unreliable)
[437908.479693] [c000000736103d50] [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0
[437908.479699] [c000000736103e30] [c00000000000924c] .do_hash_page+0x4c/0x58
On ppc64 we use the pgtable for storing the hpte slot information and
store address to the pgtable at a constant offset (PTRS_PER_PMD) from
pmd. On mremap, when we switch the pmd, we need to withdraw and deposit
the pgtable again, so that we find the pgtable at PTRS_PER_PMD offset
from new pmd.
We also want to move the withdraw and deposit before the set_pmd so
that, when page fault find the pmd as trans huge we can be sure that
pgtable can be located at the offset.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/Kconfig | 3 +++
arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype | 1 +
mm/huge_memory.c | 12 ++++++++++++
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -365,6 +365,9 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
bool
+config ARCH_THP_MOVE_PMD_ALWAYS_WITHDRAW
+ bool
+
config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
bool
help
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ config PPC_BOOK3S_64
select PPC_FPU
select PPC_HAVE_PMU_SUPPORT
select SYS_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS
+ select ARCH_THP_MOVE_PMD_ALWAYS_WITHDRAW
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE if PPC_64K_PAGES
config PPC_BOOK3E_64
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1474,8 +1474,20 @@ int move_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct
ret = __pmd_trans_huge_lock(old_pmd, vma);
if (ret == 1) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_THP_MOVE_PMD_ALWAYS_WITHDRAW
+ pgtable_t pgtable;
+#endif
pmd = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pmd);
VM_BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*new_pmd));
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_THP_MOVE_PMD_ALWAYS_WITHDRAW
+ /*
+ * Archs like ppc64 use pgtable to store per pmd
+ * specific information. So when we switch the pmd,
+ * we should also withdraw and deposit the pgtable
+ */
+ pgtable = pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(mm, old_pmd);
+ pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(mm, new_pmd, pgtable);
+#endif
set_pmd_at(mm, new_addr, new_pmd, pmd_mksoft_dirty(pmd));
spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/powerpc-thp-fix-crash-on-mremap.patch
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