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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/migrate.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/migrate.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index 1ea27b343ccd..93d9a1e25aad 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -2031,15 +2031,26 @@ int migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, entry = maybe_pmd_mkwrite(pmd_mkdirty(entry), vma); /* - * Clear the old entry under pagetable lock and establish the new PTE. - * Any parallel GUP will either observe the old page blocking on the - * page lock, block on the page table lock or observe the new page. - * The SetPageUptodate on the new page and page_add_new_anon_rmap - * guarantee the copy is visible before the pagetable update. + * Overwrite the old entry under pagetable lock and establish + * the new PTE. Any parallel GUP will either observe the old + * page blocking on the page lock, block on the page table + * lock or observe the new page. The SetPageUptodate on the + * new page and page_add_new_anon_rmap guarantee the copy is + * visible before the pagetable update. */ flush_cache_range(vma, mmun_start, mmun_end); page_add_anon_rmap(new_page, vma, mmun_start, true); - pmdp_huge_clear_flush_notify(vma, mmun_start, pmd); + /* + * At this point the pmd is numa/protnone (i.e. non present) and the TLB + * has already been flushed globally. So no TLB can be currently + * caching this non present pmd mapping. There's no need to clear the + * pmd before doing set_pmd_at(), nor to flush the TLB after + * set_pmd_at(). Clearing the pmd here would introduce a race + * condition against MADV_DONTNEED, because MADV_DONTNEED only holds the + * mmap_sem for reading. If the pmd is set to NULL at any given time, + * MADV_DONTNEED won't wait on the pmd lock and it'll skip clearing this + * pmd. + */ set_pmd_at(mm, mmun_start, pmd, entry); update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, address, &entry); @@ -2053,7 +2064,7 @@ int migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, * No need to double call mmu_notifier->invalidate_range() callback as * the above pmdp_huge_clear_flush_notify() did already call it. */ - mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_only_end(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end); + mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end); /* Take an "isolate" reference and put new page on the LRU. */ get_page(new_page); |