Revert "x86, mm: Make spurious_fault check explicitly check the PRESENT bit"
I got a report for a minor regression introduced by commit
027ef6c87853b
("mm: thp: fix pmd_present for split_huge_page and PROT_NONE with THP").
So the problem is, pageattr creates kernel pagetables (pte and pmds) that
breaks pte_present/pmd_present and the patch above exposed this invariant
breakage for pmd_present.
The same problem already existed for the pte and pte_present and it was
fixed by commit
660a293ea9be709 ("x86, mm: Make spurious_fault check
explicitly check the PRESENT bit") (if it wasn't for that commit, it
wouldn't even be a regression). That fix avoids the pagefault to use
pte_present. I could follow through by stopping using
pmd_present/pmd_huge too.
However I think it's more robust to fix pageattr and to clear the
PSE/GLOBAL bitflags too in addition to the present bitflag. So the kernel
page fault can keep using the regular pte_present/pmd_present/pmd_huge.
The confusion arises because _PAGE_GLOBAL and _PAGE_PROTNONE are sharing
the same bit, and in the pmd case we pretend _PAGE_PSE to be set only in
present pmds (to facilitate split_huge_page final tlb flush).
This patch:
Revert commit
660a293ea9be709 ("x86, mm: Make spurious_fault check
explicitly check the PRESENT bit").
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>