Partly revert "mm/thp: carry over dirty bit when thp splits on pmd"

Anatoly Pugachev reported sparc64 breakage on the patch:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221021160603.GA23307@u164.east.ru

The sparc64 impl of pte_mkdirty() is definitely slightly special in that
it leverages a code patching mechanism for sun4u/sun4v on relevant pgtable
entry operations.

Before having a clue of why the sparc64 is special and caused the patch to
SIGSEGV the processes, revert the patch for now.  The swap path of dirty
bit inheritage is kept because that's using the swap shared code so we
assume it'll not be affected.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y1Wbi4yyVvDtg4zN@x1n
Fixes: 0ccf7f168e17 ("mm/thp: carry over dirty bit when thp splits on pmd")
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Anatoly Pugachev <matorola@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Anatoly Pugachev <matorola@gmail.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 561a42567477dce391b8993125a680106c6dcae9..811d19b5c4f606f4bf6e31df751d376ee000aaef 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2206,9 +2206,12 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
                                entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
                        if (!young)
                                entry = pte_mkold(entry);
-                       /* NOTE: this may set soft-dirty too on some archs */
-                       if (dirty)
-                               entry = pte_mkdirty(entry);
+                       /*
+                        * NOTE: we don't do pte_mkdirty when dirty==true
+                        * because it breaks sparc64 which can sigsegv
+                        * random process.  Need to revisit when we figure
+                        * out what is special with sparc64.
+                        */
                        if (soft_dirty)
                                entry = pte_mksoft_dirty(entry);
                        if (uffd_wp)