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author | Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> | 2018-07-27 21:48:17 +1000 |
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committer | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> | 2018-08-08 00:32:32 +1000 |
commit | 4231aba000f5a4583dd9f67057aadb68c3eca99d (patch) | |
tree | d504bc547bb05060595d02e96710a20795707518 /arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c | |
parent | a0ac3687fb404d59296ecba4642071424d153569 (diff) | |
download | linux-4231aba000f5a4583dd9f67057aadb68c3eca99d.tar.bz2 |
powerpc/64s: Fix page table fragment refcount race vs speculative references
The page table fragment allocator uses the main page refcount racily
with respect to speculative references. A customer observed a BUG due
to page table page refcount underflow in the fragment allocator. This
can be caused by the fragment allocator set_page_count stomping on a
speculative reference, and then the speculative failure handler
decrements the new reference, and the underflow eventually pops when
the page tables are freed.
Fix this by using a dedicated field in the struct page for the page
table fragment allocator.
Fixes: 5c1f6ee9a31c ("powerpc: Reduce PTE table memory wastage")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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