[PATCH 1/1] riscv/mm: fix soft-dirty migration PMDs being treated as present
From: Lance Yang
Date: Sat Oct 03 2026 - 23:03:47 EST
RISC-V uses _PAGE_EXEC for swap soft-dirty tracking when
CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY is enabled and Svrsw60t59b is available. That's
a problem for PMD migration entries, since pmd_present() also checks
_PAGE_LEAF (R/W/X) to recognize THPs with _PAGE_PRESENT temporarily
cleared during splitting.
When a soft-dirty THP is migrated, set_pmd_migration_entry() preserves
soft-dirty with pmd_swp_mksoft_dirty(), setting the X bit in the
migration PMD. Even with _PAGE_PRESENT clear, we end up treating a
migration PMD as a present THP! The fault handler skips
pmd_migration_entry_wait(), and a write fault can end up in
do_huge_pmd_wp_page(), where pmd_page() decodes the migration entry
as a mapped PFN.
Move the swap soft-dirty bit to bit 12 and start the swap offset at
bit 13 when CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY is enabled. This keeps R/W/X clear
in migration PMDs and lets us keep the existing pmd_present() check
for invalidated THPs. Leave the offset at bit 12 when soft-dirty
tracking is disabled.
Fixes: 2a3ebad4db63 ("riscv: mm: add soft-dirty page tracking support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
I found this while reviewing Usama's PMD-level swap entries series [1]
and comparing the swap flag bits with the PMD presence checks across
architectures.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261002095503.3585565-1-usama.arif@xxxxxxxxx/
arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h | 6 +++---
arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 10 ++++++----
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
index d5a86b4df3ce6..d84b459e010c1 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h
@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@
((riscv_has_extension_unlikely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVRSW60T59B)) ? \
(1UL << 59) : 0)
/*
- * Bit 3 is always zero for swap entry computation, so we
- * can borrow it for swap page soft-dirty tracking.
+ * Bit 12 is reserved for swap soft-dirty tracking. The swap offset
+ * starts at bit 13 when CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY is enabled.
*/
#define _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY \
((riscv_has_extension_unlikely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVRSW60T59B)) ? \
- _PAGE_EXEC : 0)
+ (1UL << 12) : 0)
#else
#define _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY 0
#define _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY 0
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index b644db16bda94..acaf6d3b54d04 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -1178,18 +1178,20 @@ static inline pud_t pud_modify(pud_t pud, pgprot_t newprot)
*
* Format of swap PTE:
* bit 0: _PAGE_PRESENT (zero)
- * bit 1 to 2: (zero)
- * bit 3: _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY
+ * bit 1 to 3: _PAGE_LEAF (zero)
* bit 4: _PAGE_SWP_UFFD
* bit 5: _PAGE_PROT_NONE (zero)
* bit 6: exclusive marker
* bits 7 to 11: swap type
- * bits 12 to XLEN-1: swap offset
+ * bit 12: _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY (CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY)
+ * bits 12/13 to XLEN-1: swap offset (without/with CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY)
*/
#define __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT 7
#define __SWP_TYPE_BITS 5
#define __SWP_TYPE_MASK ((1UL << __SWP_TYPE_BITS) - 1)
-#define __SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT (__SWP_TYPE_BITS + __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT)
+#define __SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT \
+ (__SWP_TYPE_BITS + __SWP_TYPE_SHIFT + \
+ IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY))
#define MAX_SWAPFILES_CHECK() \
BUILD_BUG_ON(MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT > __SWP_TYPE_BITS)
--
2.49.0