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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 7 Jun 2014 20:25:31 +0000 (13:25 -0700)
commit4d5f17381ec0c7a5ead38d9a8dc25cfc245e3a81
tree6e20f4383d255cfa98ed6998e76bb3819e83f2e9
parent619131122438f5da4c9f8467a64f4f111c8ed823
x86, mm, hugetlb: Add missing TLB page invalidation for hugetlb_cow()

commit 9844f5462392b53824e8b86726e7c33b5ecbb676 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h