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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2011-11-02 13:37:08 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-02 16:06:57 -0700
commit405e44f2e312dd5dd63e5a9f459bffcbcd4368ef (patch)
treeeccfd96b3f25ad8c3d283c17938f4ec9a1a1c3fb /arch/powerpc/mm
parent2839bdc1bfc0af76a2f0f11eca011590520a04fa (diff)
powerpc: get_hugepte() don't put_page() the wrong page
"page" may have changed to point to the next hugepage after the loop completed, The references have been taken on the head page, so the put_page must happen there too. This is a longstanding issue pre-thp inclusion. It's totally unclear how these page_cache_add_speculative and pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep) checks are necessary across all the powerpc gup_fast code, when x86 doesn't need any of that: there's no way the page can be freed with irq disabled so we're guaranteed the atomic_inc will happen on a page with page_count > 0 (so not needing the speculative check). The pte check is also meaningless on x86: no need to rollback on x86 if the pte changed, because the pte can still change a CPU tick after the check succeeded and it won't be rolled back in that case. The important thing is we got a reference on a valid page that was mapped there a CPU tick ago. So not knowing the soft tlb refill code of ppc64 in great detail I'm not removing the "speculative" page_count increase and the pte checks across all the code, but unless there's a strong reason for it they should be later cleaned up too. If a pte can change from huge to non-huge (like it could happen with THP) passing a pte_t *ptep to gup_hugepte() would also require to repeat the is_hugepd in gup_hugepte(), but that shouldn't happen with hugetlbfs only so I'm not altering that. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 0b9a5c1901b..b649c288af9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ static noinline int gup_hugepte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long sz, unsigned long add
if (unlikely(pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep))) {
/* Could be optimized better */
while (*nr) {
- put_page(page);
+ put_page(head);
(*nr)--;
}
}