[PATCH 52/75] mm/THP: use pmd_populate() to update the pmd with pgtable_t pointer

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.8.13.2 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 7c3425123ddfdc5f48e7913ff59d908789712b18 upstream.

We should not use set_pmd_at to update pmd_t with pgtable_t pointer.
set_pmd_at is used to set pmd with huge pte entries and architectures
like ppc64, clear few flags from the pte when saving a new entry.
Without this change we observe bad pte errors like below on ppc64 with
THP enabled.

  BUG: Bad page map in process ld mm=0xc000001ee39f4780 pte:7fc3f37848000001 pmd:c000001ec0000000

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index b795dcf..9459edd 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2366,7 +2366,12 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		pte_unmap(pte);
 		spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 		BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*pmd));
-		set_pmd_at(mm, address, pmd, _pmd);
+		/*
+		 * We can only use set_pmd_at when establishing
+		 * hugepmds and never for establishing regular pmds that
+		 * points to regular pagetables. Use pmd_populate for that
+		 */
+		pmd_populate(mm, pmd, pmd_pgtable(_pmd));
 		spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 		anon_vma_unlock_write(vma->anon_vma);
 		goto out;
-- 
1.8.1.2

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