From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:46:42 +0000 (-0800) Subject: thp: bail out gup_fast on splitting pmd X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=64cc6ae001d70bc59e5f854e6b5678f59110df16;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal7580.git thp: bail out gup_fast on splitting pmd Force gup_fast to take the slow path and block if the pmd is splitting, not only if it's none. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/gup.c b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c index 06f56fcf9a7..269aa53932e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/gup.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c @@ -160,7 +160,18 @@ static int gup_pmd_range(pud_t pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pmd_t pmd = *pmdp; next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end); - if (pmd_none(pmd)) + /* + * The pmd_trans_splitting() check below explains why + * pmdp_splitting_flush has to flush the tlb, to stop + * this gup-fast code from running while we set the + * splitting bit in the pmd. Returning zero will take + * the slow path that will call wait_split_huge_page() + * if the pmd is still in splitting state. gup-fast + * can't because it has irq disabled and + * wait_split_huge_page() would never return as the + * tlb flush IPI wouldn't run. + */ + if (pmd_none(pmd) || pmd_trans_splitting(pmd)) return 0; if (unlikely(pmd_large(pmd))) { if (!gup_huge_pmd(pmd, addr, next, write, pages, nr))