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| author | Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> | 2016-01-15 16:56:02 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -0800 |
| commit | 01871e59af5cc1cbf290ad6b4b95cd2f0cec9e8c (patch) | |
| tree | 8c12bb4cd4be99b3e4f4d06e34bd9f1eb3c6aefa /mm | |
| parent | b2e0d1625e193b40cbbd45b799f82d54d34e015c (diff) | |
| download | linux-01871e59af5cc1cbf290ad6b4b95cd2f0cec9e8c.tar.bz2 | |
mm, dax: fix livelock, allow dax pmd mappings to become writeable
Prior to this change DAX PMD mappings that were made read-only were
never able to be made writable again. This is because the code in
insert_pfn_pmd() that calls pmd_mkdirty() and pmd_mkwrite() would skip
these calls if the PMD already existed in the page table.
Instead, if we are doing a write always mark the PMD entry as dirty and
writeable. Without this code we can get into a condition where we mark
the PMD as read-only, and then on a subsequent write fault we get into
an infinite loop of PMD faults where we try unsuccessfully to make the
PMD writeable.
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/huge_memory.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 9d12d63a0ddd..996e86dbeb43 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -938,15 +938,13 @@ static void insert_pfn_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, spinlock_t *ptl; ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pmd); - if (pmd_none(*pmd)) { - entry = pmd_mkhuge(pfn_pmd(pfn, prot)); - if (write) { - entry = pmd_mkyoung(pmd_mkdirty(entry)); - entry = maybe_pmd_mkwrite(entry, vma); - } - set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry); - update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, addr, pmd); + entry = pmd_mkhuge(pfn_pmd(pfn, prot)); + if (write) { + entry = pmd_mkyoung(pmd_mkdirty(entry)); + entry = maybe_pmd_mkwrite(entry, vma); } + set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry); + update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, addr, pmd); spin_unlock(ptl); } |