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Commit 73a6ec47 authored by Matthew Wilcox's avatar Matthew Wilcox Committed by Linus Torvalds
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dax: ensure that zero pages are removed from other processes



If the first access to a huge page was a store, there would be no existing
zero pmd in this process's page tables.  There could be a zero pmd in
another process's page tables, if it had done a load.  We can detect this
case by noticing that the buffer_head returned from the filesystem is New,
and ensure that other processes mapping this huge page have their page
tables flushed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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