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Commit 891121e6 authored by Aneesh Kumar K.V's avatar Aneesh Kumar K.V Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/mm: Differentiate between hugetlb and THP during page walk



We need to properly identify whether a hugepage is an explicit or
a transparent hugepage in follow_huge_addr(). We used to depend
on hugepage shift argument to do that. But in some case that can
result in wrong results. For ex:

On finding a transparent hugepage we set hugepage shift to PMD_SHIFT.
But we can end up clearing the thp pte, via pmdp_huge_get_and_clear.
We do prevent reusing the pfn page via the usage of
kick_all_cpus_sync(). But that happens after we updated the pte to 0.
Hence in follow_huge_addr() we can find hugepage shift set, but transparent
huge page check fail for a thp pte.

NOTE: We fixed a variant of this race against thp split in commit
691e95fd
("powerpc/mm/thp: Make page table walk safe against thp split/collapse")

Without this patch, we may hit the BUG_ON(flags & FOLL_GET) in
follow_page_mask occasionally.

In the long term, we may want to switch ppc64 64k page size config to
enable CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB

Reported-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent ec2640b1
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