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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-03-15 16:17:58 +0530
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2014-03-24 09:48:34 +1100
commit346519a1606e196bd5f11b9f5eacaf60f70477a1 (patch)
tree97b5861188bb1dd0cdb79efcd0866228aa75fb2f /arch
parentee4ed6fa5af0009a1205498d1f754fecc7af7657 (diff)
downloadlinux-346519a1606e196bd5f11b9f5eacaf60f70477a1.tar.gz
powerpc/mm: Make sure a local_irq_disable prevent a parallel THP split
We have generic code like the one in get_futex_key that assume that a local_irq_disable prevents a parallel THP split. Support that by adding a dummy smp call function after setting _PAGE_SPLITTING. Code paths like get_user_pages_fast still need to check for _PAGE_SPLITTING after disabling IRQ which indicate that a parallel THP splitting is ongoing. Now if they don't find _PAGE_SPLITTING set, then we can be sure that parallel split will now block in pmdp_splitting flush until we enables IRQ Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c
index 62bf5e8e78da..f6ce1f111f5b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c
@@ -647,6 +647,11 @@ void pmdp_splitting_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (old & _PAGE_HASHPTE)
hpte_do_hugepage_flush(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp);
}
+ /*
+ * This ensures that generic code that rely on IRQ disabling
+ * to prevent a parallel THP split work as expected.
+ */
+ kick_all_cpus_sync();
}
/*