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Commit 2ba99c5e authored by Jann Horn's avatar Jann Horn Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm/khugepaged: fix GUP-fast interaction by sending IPI

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: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 8d3c106e
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