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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>
Fri, 5 Oct 2012 04:00:50 +0000 (14:00 +1000)
commit982c15e328c53c591b35d04cb19ac49450d3d721
tree7711cb510453fdd848f6d4c2e74c1f5ba20ad42e
parent9c7b98731944e3b02e444b43098b0d8cc8f8badd
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