From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
patches@lists.linux.dev,
"David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>,
Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>,
"Uschakow, Stanislav" <suschako@amazon.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.6 25/39] mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb_pmd_shared()
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:30:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260217200005.180663130@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260217200004.221651386@linuxfoundation.org>
6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
commit ca1a47cd3f5f4c46ca188b1c9a27af87d1ab2216 upstream.
Patch series "mm/hugetlb: fixes for PMD table sharing (incl. using
mmu_gather)", v3.
One functional fix, one performance regression fix, and two related
comment fixes.
I cleaned up my prototype I recently shared [1] for the performance fix,
deferring most of the cleanups I had in the prototype to a later point.
While doing that I identified the other things.
The goal of this patch set is to be backported to stable trees "fairly"
easily. At least patch #1 and #4.
Patch #1 fixes hugetlb_pmd_shared() not detecting any sharing
Patch #2 + #3 are simple comment fixes that patch #4 interacts with.
Patch #4 is a fix for the reported performance regression due to excessive
IPI broadcasts during fork()+exit().
The last patch is all about TLB flushes, IPIs and mmu_gather.
Read: complicated
There are plenty of cleanups in the future to be had + one reasonable
optimization on x86. But that's all out of scope for this series.
Runtime tested, with a focus on fixing the performance regression using
the original reproducer [2] on x86.
This patch (of 4):
We switched from (wrongly) using the page count to an independent shared
count. Now, shared page tables have a refcount of 1 (excluding
speculative references) and instead use ptdesc->pt_share_count to identify
sharing.
We didn't convert hugetlb_pmd_shared(), so right now, we would never
detect a shared PMD table as such, because sharing/unsharing no longer
touches the refcount of a PMD table.
Page migration, like mbind() or migrate_pages() would allow for migrating
folios mapped into such shared PMD tables, even though the folios are not
exclusive. In smaps we would account them as "private" although they are
"shared", and we would be wrongly setting the PM_MMAP_EXCLUSIVE in the
pagemap interface.
Fix it by properly using ptdesc_pmd_is_shared() in hugetlb_pmd_shared().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251223214037.580860-1-david@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251223214037.580860-2-david@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8cab934d-4a56-44aa-b641-bfd7e23bd673@kernel.org/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8cab934d-4a56-44aa-b641-bfd7e23bd673@kernel.org/ [2]
Fixes: 59d9094df3d7 ("mm: hugetlb: independent PMD page table shared count")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>
Cc: "Uschakow, Stanislav" <suschako@amazon.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -1247,7 +1247,7 @@ static inline __init void hugetlb_cma_re
#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PMD_PAGE_TABLE_SHARING
static inline bool hugetlb_pmd_shared(pte_t *pte)
{
- return page_count(virt_to_page(pte)) > 1;
+ return ptdesc_pmd_is_shared(virt_to_ptdesc(pte));
}
#else
static inline bool hugetlb_pmd_shared(pte_t *pte)
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2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 14/39] ASoC: Intel: sof_es8336: Add DMI quirk for Huawei BOD-WXX9 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 15/39] ASoC: amd: yc: Add quirk for HP 200 G2a 16 Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 19/39] ASoC: fsl_xcvr: fix missing lock in fsl_xcvr_mode_put() Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 23/39] Revert "wireguard: device: enable threaded NAPI" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 24/39] mm/hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range() to use ->pt_share_count Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 26/39] mm/hugetlb: fix two comments related to huge_pmd_unshare() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 27/39] mm/hugetlb: fix excessive IPI broadcasts when unsharing PMD tables using mmu_gather Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 28/39] cpuset: Fix missing adaptation for cpuset_is_populated Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 30/39] fbdev: rivafb: fix divide error in nv3_arb() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 31/39] fbdev: smscufx: properly copy ioctl memory to kernelspace Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 32/39] f2fs: fix to add gc count stat in f2fs_gc_range Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 33/39] f2fs: fix out-of-bounds access in sysfs attribute read/write Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 34/39] f2fs: fix IS_CHECKPOINTED flag inconsistency issue caused by concurrent atomic commit and checkpoint writes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 35/39] f2fs: fix to avoid UAF in f2fs_write_end_io() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 36/39] f2fs: fix zoned block device information initialization Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:30 ` [PATCH 6.6 37/39] f2fs: fix to avoid mapping wrong physical block for swapfile Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:31 ` [PATCH 6.6 38/39] USB: serial: option: add Telit FN920C04 RNDIS compositions Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 20:31 ` [PATCH 6.6 39/39] net: tunnel: make skb_vlan_inet_prepare() return drop reasons Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17 22:40 ` [PATCH 6.6 00/39] 6.6.127-rc1 review Florian Fainelli
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