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mm: hugetlb: add arch hook for clearing page flags before entering pool
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:19:15 +0000 (10:19 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:46:47 +0000 (16:46 +1000)
commit7bc477a0f7b01e334fbac9b60522ab98c462bad7
treead84b2e6307a5d061a993e0dd57a53371cc95150
parent89d76f9a3839d6e3df39ca48d67597ab87113f5a
mm: hugetlb: add arch hook for clearing page flags before entering pool

The core page allocator ensures that page flags are zeroed when freeing
pages via free_pages_check.  A number of architectures (ARM, PPC, MIPS)
rely on this property to treat new pages as dirty with respect to the data
cache and perform the appropriate flushing before mapping the pages into
userspace.

This can lead to cache synchronisation problems when using hugepages,
since the allocator keeps its own pool of pages above the usual page
allocator and does not reset the page flags when freeing a page into the
pool.

This patch adds a new architecture hook, arch_clear_hugepage_flags, so
that architectures which rely on the page flags being in a particular
state for fresh allocations can adjust the flags accordingly when a page
is freed into the pool.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/ia64/include/asm/hugetlb.h
arch/mips/include/asm/hugetlb.h
arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
arch/s390/include/asm/hugetlb.h
arch/sh/include/asm/hugetlb.h
arch/sparc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
arch/tile/include/asm/hugetlb.h
arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h
mm/hugetlb.c