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mm: hugetlb: add arch hook for clearing page flags before entering pool
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:33:20 +0000 (11:33 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:41:34 +0000 (15:41 +1000)
commit9ca513ef432f8ffeecdafce76587bf38e65aa907
treeb9a8c7255ba5462248867333d122fd6735cddd15
parent5244407316fb7d687a5baefd4a4ae831ac4cf3e5
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