hugetlbfs: add missing TLB flush to hugetlb_cow()
authorGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:13:28 +0000 (02:13 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:58:25 +0000 (08:58 -0700)
commit8fe627ec5b7c47b1654dff50536d9709863295a3
tree78511553eb4111224e89ef02a9436d0db382694b
parent6d779079bfd1196e077bb1d0a906c37ae770b102
hugetlbfs: add missing TLB flush to hugetlb_cow()

A cow break on a hugetlbfs page with page_count > 1 will set a new pte with
set_huge_pte_at(), w/o any tlb flush operation.  The old pte will remain in
the tlb and subsequent write access to the page will result in a page fault
loop, for as long as it may take until the tlb is flushed from somewhere else.
 This patch introduces an architecture-specific huge_ptep_clear_flush()
function, which is called before the the set_huge_pte_at() in hugetlb_cow().

ATTENTION: This is just a nop on all architectures for now, the s390
implementation will come with our large page patch later.  Other architectures
should define their own huge_ptep_clear_flush() if needed.

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h
include/asm-powerpc/hugetlb.h
include/asm-sh/hugetlb.h
include/asm-sparc64/hugetlb.h
include/asm-x86/hugetlb.h
mm/hugetlb.c