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author | Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> | 2012-10-08 16:33:27 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2012-10-09 16:22:57 +0900 |
commit | 027ef6c87853b0a9df53175063028edb4950d476 (patch) | |
tree | ccd9f65107923898792c630d2246b66e2420465d /drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpi/mpi2_init.h | |
parent | 00ea8990aadf754bbbb46ae85d4f2afba19508d8 (diff) |
mm: thp: fix pmd_present for split_huge_page and PROT_NONE with THP
In many places !pmd_present has been converted to pmd_none. For pmds
that's equivalent and pmd_none is quicker so using pmd_none is better.
However (unless we delete pmd_present) we should provide an accurate
pmd_present too. This will avoid the risk of code thinking the pmd is non
present because it's under __split_huge_page_map, see the pmd_mknotpresent
there and the comment above it.
If the page has been mprotected as PROT_NONE, it would also lead to a
pmd_present false negative in the same way as the race with
split_huge_page.
Because the PSE bit stays on at all times (both during split_huge_page and
when the _PAGE_PROTNONE bit get set), we could only check for the PSE bit,
but checking the PROTNONE bit too is still good to remember pmd_present
must always keep PROT_NONE into account.
This explains a not reproducible BUG_ON that was seldom reported on the
lists.
The same issue is in pmd_large, it would go wrong with both PROT_NONE and
if it races with split_huge_page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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