From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f42.google.com (mail-pa0-f42.google.com [209.85.220.42]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4423D6B0038 for ; Mon, 11 May 2015 04:54:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pabsx10 with SMTP id sx10so105007719pab.3 for ; Mon, 11 May 2015 01:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e28smtp04.in.ibm.com (e28smtp04.in.ibm.com. [122.248.162.4]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id nt2si17117631pbc.28.2015.05.11.01.54.22 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 11 May 2015 01:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from /spool/local by e28smtp04.in.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 11 May 2015 14:24:19 +0530 Received: from d28relay03.in.ibm.com (d28relay03.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.60]) by d28dlp02.in.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BFBB394004E for ; Mon, 11 May 2015 14:24:16 +0530 (IST) Received: from d28av05.in.ibm.com (d28av05.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.67]) by d28relay03.in.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id t4B8sFPQ64618546 for ; Mon, 11 May 2015 14:24:16 +0530 Received: from d28av05.in.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d28av05.in.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id t4B8sFJh032747 for ; Mon, 11 May 2015 14:24:15 +0530 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] powerpc/thp: Serialize pmd clear against a linux page table walk. In-Reply-To: <20150511074631.GA10974@node.dhcp.inet.fi> References: <1431325561-21396-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20150511074631.GA10974@node.dhcp.inet.fi> Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 14:24:14 +0530 Message-ID: <87twvj4hqh.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, aarcange@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Kirill A. Shutemov" writes: > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:56:01AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: >> Serialize against find_linux_pte_or_hugepte which does lock-less >> lookup in page tables with local interrupts disabled. For huge pages >> it casts pmd_t to pte_t. Since format of pte_t is different from >> pmd_t we want to prevent transit from pmd pointing to page table >> to pmd pointing to huge page (and back) while interrupts are disabled. >> We clear pmd to possibly replace it with page table pointer in >> different code paths. So make sure we wait for the parallel >> find_linux_pte_or_hugepage to finish. >> >> Without this patch, a find_linux_pte_or_hugepte running in parallel to >> __split_huge_zero_page_pmd or do_huge_pmd_wp_page_fallback or zap_huge_pmd >> can run into the above issue. With __split_huge_zero_page_pmd and >> do_huge_pmd_wp_page_fallback we clear the hugepage pte before inserting >> the pmd entry with a regular pgtable address. Such a clear need to >> wait for the parallel find_linux_pte_or_hugepte to finish. >> >> With zap_huge_pmd, we can run into issues, with a hugepage pte >> getting zapped due to a MADV_DONTNEED while other cpu fault it >> in as small pages. >> >> Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov >> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V > > Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov > > CC: stable@ ? Yes, We also need to pick, dac5657067919161eb3273ca787d8ae9814801e7 691e95fd7396905a38d98919e9c150dbc3ea21a3 7d6e7f7ffaba4e013c7a0589140431799bc17985 But that may need me to a backport, because we have dependencies in kvm and a cherry-pick may not work. Will work with Michael Ellerman to find out what needs to be done. -aneesh -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org