mremap: fix race between mremap() and page cleanning
Prior to 3.15, there was a race between zap_pte_range() and page_mkclean() where writes to a page could be lost. Dave Hansen discovered by inspection that there is a similar race between move_ptes() and page_mkclean(). We've been able to reproduce the issue by enlarging the race window with a msleep(), but have not been able to hit it without modifying the code. So, we think it's a real issue, but is difficult or impossible to hit in practice. The zap_pte_range() issue is fixed by commit 1cf35d47("mm: split 'tlb_flush_mmu()' into tlb flushing and memory freeing parts"). And this patch is to fix the race between page_mkclean() and mremap(). Here is one possible way to hit the race: suppose a process mmapped a file with READ | WRITE and SHARED, it has two threads and they are bound to 2 different CPUs, e.g. CPU1 and CPU2. mmap returned X, then thread 1 did a write to addr X so that CPU1 now has a writable TLB for addr X on it. Thread 2 starts ...
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