[PATCH 3.18 031/185] asm-generic: provide generic_pmdp_establish()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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

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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit c58f0bb77ed8bf93dfdde762b01cb67eebbdfc29 ]

Patch series "Do not lose dirty bit on THP pages", v4.

Vlastimil noted that pmdp_invalidate() is not atomic and we can lose
dirty and access bits if CPU sets them after pmdp dereference, but
before set_pmd_at().

The bug can lead to data loss, but the race window is tiny and I haven't
seen any reports that suggested that it happens in reality.  So I don't
think it worth sending it to stable.

Unfortunately, there's no way to address the issue in a generic way.  We
need to fix all architectures that support THP one-by-one.

All architectures that have THP supported have to provide atomic
pmdp_invalidate() that returns previous value.

If generic implementation of pmdp_invalidate() is used, architecture
needs to provide atomic pmdp_estabish().

pmdp_estabish() is not used out-side generic implementation of
pmdp_invalidate() so far, but I think this can change in the future.

This patch (of 12):

This is an implementation of pmdp_establish() that is only suitable for
an architecture that doesn't have hardware dirty/accessed bits.  In this
case we can't race with CPU which sets these bits and non-atomic
approach is fine.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171213105756.69879-2-kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/asm-generic/pgtable.h |   15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -181,6 +181,21 @@ extern void pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(s
 extern pgtable_t pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmdp);
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+/*
+ * This is an implementation of pmdp_establish() that is only suitable for an
+ * architecture that doesn't have hardware dirty/accessed bits. In this case we
+ * can't race with CPU which sets these bits and non-atomic aproach is fine.
+ */
+static inline pmd_t generic_pmdp_establish(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+		unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd)
+{
+	pmd_t old_pmd = *pmdp;
+	set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, pmd);
+	return old_pmd;
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_INVALIDATE
 extern void pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 			    pmd_t *pmdp);