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From: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
To: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: c.dall@virtualopensystems.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	mhocko@suse.cz, kirill@shutemov.name, aarcange@redhat.com,
	cmetcalf@tilera.com, hoffman@marvell.com, notasas@gmail.com,
	bill4carson@gmail.com, will.deacon@arm.com,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, maen@marvell.com, shadi@marvell.com,
	tawfik@marvell.com, Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] ARM: mm: correct pte_same behaviour for LPAE.
Date: Fri,  8 Feb 2013 15:01:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360335683-7755-2-git-send-email-steve.capper@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360335683-7755-1-git-send-email-steve.capper@arm.com>

For 3 levels of paging the PTE_EXT_NG bit will be set for user
address ptes that are written to a page table but not for ptes
created with mk_pte.

This can cause some comparison tests made by pte_same to fail
spuriously and lead to other problems.

To correct this behaviour, we mask off PTE_EXT_NG for any pte that
is present before running the comparison.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
index a3f3792..2b73b0f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -148,6 +148,23 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
 		clean_pmd_entry(pmdp);	\
 	} while (0)
 
+/*
+ * For 3 levels of paging the PTE_EXT_NG bit will be set for user address ptes
+ * that are written to a page table but not for ptes created with mk_pte.
+ *
+ * In hugetlb_no_page, a new huge pte (new_pte) is generated and passed to
+ * hugetlb_cow, where it is compared with an entry in a page table.
+ * This comparison test fails erroneously leading ultimately to a memory leak.
+ *
+ * To correct this behaviour, we mask off PTE_EXT_NG for any pte that is
+ * present before running the comparison.
+ */
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SAME
+#define pte_same(pte_a,pte_b)	((pte_present(pte_a) ? pte_val(pte_a) & ~PTE_EXT_NG	\
+					: pte_val(pte_a))				\
+				== (pte_present(pte_b) ? pte_val(pte_b) & ~PTE_EXT_NG	\
+					: pte_val(pte_b)))
+
 #define set_pte_ext(ptep,pte,ext) cpu_set_pte_ext(ptep,__pte(pte_val(pte)|(ext)))
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
-- 
1.7.9.5

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-08 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-08 15:01 [PATCH 0/6] ARM: mm: HugeTLB + THP support Steve Capper
2013-02-08 15:01 ` Steve Capper [this message]
2013-02-08 15:01 ` [PATCH 2/6] ARM: mm: Add support for flushing HugeTLB pages Steve Capper
2013-02-08 15:01 ` [PATCH 3/6] ARM: mm: HugeTLB support for LPAE systems Steve Capper
2013-02-08 15:01 ` [PATCH 4/6] ARM: mm: HugeTLB support for non-LPAE systems Steve Capper
2013-02-08 15:01 ` [PATCH 5/6] ARM: mm: Transparent huge page support for LPAE systems Steve Capper
2013-02-08 15:01 ` [PATCH 6/6] ARM: mm: Transparent huge page support for non-LPAE systems Steve Capper
2013-02-10 20:45 ` [PATCH 0/6] ARM: mm: HugeTLB + THP support Grazvydas Ignotas

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