arm64: mm: fix pmd_write CoW brokenness
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 27 May 2014 18:11:58 +0000 (19:11 +0100)
committerMark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Fri, 30 May 2014 14:18:00 +0000 (15:18 +0100)
Commit 9c7e535fcc17 ("arm64: mm: Route pmd thp functions through pte
equivalents") changed the pmd manipulator and accessor functions to
convert the target pmd to a pte, process it with the pte functions, then
convert it back. Along the way, we gained support for PTE_WRITE, however
this is completely ignored by set_pmd_at, and so we fail to set the
PMD_SECT_RDONLY for PMDs, resulting in all sorts of lovely failures (like
CoW not working).

Partially reverting the offending commit (by making use of
PMD_SECT_RDONLY explicitly for pmd_{write,wrprotect,mkwrite} functions)
leads to further issues because pmd_write can then return potentially
incorrect values for page table entries marked as RDONLY, leading to
BUG_ON(pmd_write(entry)) tripping under some THP workloads.

This patch fixes the issue by routing set_pmd_at through set_pte_at,
which correctly takes the PTE_WRITE flag into account. Given that
THP mappings are always anonymous, the additional cache-flushing code
in __sync_icache_dcache won't impose any significant overhead as the
flush will be skipped.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
(cherry picked from commit ceb218359de22e70980801d4fa04fffbfc44adb8)
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h

index 548c4201b17ec88b93edb1d17fedf61ed3c9d38c..3991d583c067317b97273c58252593f734f68d2b 100644 (file)
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static inline pmd_t pte_pmd(pte_t pte)
 
 #define pmd_page(pmd)           pfn_to_page(__phys_to_pfn(pmd_val(pmd) & PHYS_MASK))
 
-#define set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmdp, pmd)        set_pmd(pmdp, pmd)
+#define set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmdp, pmd)        set_pte_at(mm, addr, (pte_t *)pmdp, pmd_pte(pmd))
 
 static inline int has_transparent_hugepage(void)
 {