mm, gup: ensure real head page is ref-counted when using hugepages
authorPunit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Thu, 6 Jul 2017 22:39:39 +0000 (15:39 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 6 Jul 2017 23:24:34 +0000 (16:24 -0700)
commitd63206ee32b6e64b0e12d46e5d6004afd9913713
treecbfe5e0e92d5df7ac519198b8ca67fc118511f52
parenta3e328556d41bb61c55f9dfcc62d6a826ea97b85
mm, gup: ensure real head page is ref-counted when using hugepages

When speculatively taking references to a hugepage using
page_cache_add_speculative() in gup_huge_pmd(), it is assumed that the
page returned by pmd_page() is the head page.  Although normally true,
this assumption doesn't hold when the hugepage comprises of successive
page table entries such as when using contiguous bit on arm64 at PTE or
PMD levels.

This can be addressed by ensuring that the page passed to
page_cache_add_speculative() is the real head or by de-referencing the
head page within the function.

We take the first approach to keep the usage pattern aligned with
page_cache_get_speculative() where users already pass the appropriate
page, i.e., the de-referenced head.

Apply the same logic to fix gup_huge_[pud|pgd]() as well.

[punit.agrawal@arm.com: fix arm64 ltp failure]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170619170145.25577-5-punit.agrawal@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170522133604.11392-3-punit.agrawal@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/gup.c