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x86, mm, hugetlb: Add missing TLB page invalidation for hugetlb_cow()
authorAnthony Iliopoulos <anthony.iliopoulos@huawei.com>
Wed, 14 May 2014 09:29:48 +0000 (11:29 +0200)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 13 May 2014 23:34:09 +0000 (16:34 -0700)
commit5e4504dc8205cbf83c2e26ecc4210c483421f7fb
tree7b0036807c892d29f06f802de1a835b68a21b89b
parentc4bd4d7f8f9f9dd014b684b39139a5744ccbaef4
x86, mm, hugetlb: Add missing TLB page invalidation for hugetlb_cow()

The invalidation is required in order to maintain proper semantics
under CoW conditions. In scenarios where a process clones several
threads, a thread operating on a core whose DTLB entry for a
particular hugepage has not been invalidated, will be reading from
the hugepage that belongs to the forked child process, even after
hugetlb_cow().

The thread will not see the updated page as long as the stale DTLB
entry remains cached, the thread attempts to write into the page,
the child process exits, or the thread gets migrated to a different
processor.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos <anthony.iliopoulos@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140514092948.GA17391@server-36.huawei.corp
Suggested-by: Shay Goikhman <shay.goikhman@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v2.6.16+ (!)
arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h