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Commit 8ebe0a5e authored by Rik van Riel's avatar Rik van Riel Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm,madvise,hugetlb: fix unexpected data loss with MADV_DONTNEED on hugetlbfs

A common use case for hugetlbfs is for the application to create
memory pools backed by huge pages, which then get handed over to
some malloc library (eg. jemalloc) for further management.

That malloc library may be doing MADV_DONTNEED calls on memory
that is no longer needed, expecting those calls to happen on
PAGE_SIZE boundaries.

However, currently the MADV_DONTNEED code rounds up any such
requests to HPAGE_PMD_SIZE boundaries. This leads to undesired
outcomes when jemalloc expects a 4kB MADV_DONTNEED, but 2MB of
memory get zeroed out, instead.

Use of pre-built shared libraries means that user code does not
always know the page size of every memory arena in use.

Avoid unexpected data loss with MADV_DONTNEED by rounding up
only to PAGE_SIZE (in do_madvise), and rounding down to huge
page granularity.

That way programs will only get as much memory zeroed out as
they requested.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021192805.366ad573@imladris.surriel.com
Fixes: 90e7e7f5

 ("mm: enable MADV_DONTNEED for hugetlb mappings")
Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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