mm/khugepaged: fix GUP-fast interaction by sending IPI
commit 2ba99c5e upstream. Since commit 70cbc3cc ("mm: gup: fix the fast GUP race against THP collapse"), the lockless_pages_from_mm() fastpath rechecks the pmd_t to ensure that the page table was not removed by khugepaged in between. However, lockless_pages_from_mm() still requires that the page table is not concurrently freed. Fix it by sending IPIs (if the architecture uses semi-RCU-style page table freeing) before freeing/reusing page tables. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221129154730.2274278-2-jannh@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221128180252.1684965-2-jannh@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221125213714.4115729-2-jannh@google.com Fixes: ba76149f ("thp: khugepaged") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [manual backport: two of the three places in khugepaged that can free ptes were refactored into a common helper between 5.15 and 6.0] Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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