From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 7e467245bf5226db34c4b12d3cbacfa2f7a15a8b upstream. We would get wrong results in compiler recomputed old_pmd. Avoid that by using ACCESS_ONCE Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c index e0da84719b46..7d86c868040d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c @@ -84,7 +84,9 @@ int __hash_page_thp(unsigned long ea, unsigned long access, unsigned long vsid, * atomically mark the linux large page PMD busy and dirty */ do { - old_pmd = pmd_val(*pmdp); + pmd_t pmd = ACCESS_ONCE(*pmdp); + + old_pmd = pmd_val(pmd); /* If PMD busy, retry the access */ if (unlikely(old_pmd & _PAGE_BUSY)) return 0; -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html