Re: Patch "powerpc/thp: Fix crash on mremap" has been added to the 3.12-stable tree

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On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 11:00 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Did this patch get dropped ?. IIRC, we agreed that we could keep this
> patch and it is 3.13 stable backport which i need to send a new version.

Yea, he dropped it the minute there was a controversy :-) And he can't
keep track of everything he dropped, that would be beyond human
abilities.

So when Greg drops a patch it's _gone_, if we end up agreeing it was the
right patch anyway (which I think it was in that case), you do need to
submit it again.

At least that's my understanding, Greg, feel free to say if I'm full of
shit :)

Ben.

> -aneesh
> 
> gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> > 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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