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From: steve.capper@linaro.org (Steve Capper)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/4] ARM: mm: correct pte_same behaviour for LPAE.
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:31:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1369323080-9673-2-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369323080-9673-1-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org>

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: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@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 86b8fe3..70f041c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -166,6 +166,23 @@ 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__ */
-- 
1.8.1.4

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-23 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-23 15:31 [PATCH v2 0/4] ARM: mm: HugeTLB + THP support Steve Capper
2013-05-23 15:31 ` Steve Capper [this message]
2013-05-24 10:59   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] ARM: mm: correct pte_same behaviour for LPAE Catalin Marinas
2013-05-23 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] ARM: mm: Add support for flushing HugeTLB pages Steve Capper
2013-05-24 11:01   ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-23 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] ARM: mm: HugeTLB support for LPAE systems Steve Capper
2013-05-24 11:03   ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-28  8:59     ` Steve Capper
2013-05-23 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] ARM: mm: Transparent huge page " Steve Capper
2013-06-03 10:40 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] ARM: mm: HugeTLB + THP support Steve Capper
2013-06-04 12:56   ` Steve Capper
2013-06-04 13:03     ` Will Deacon
2013-06-04 13:13       ` Steve Capper
2013-06-04 14:37       ` Steve Capper

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