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x86, mm, hugetlb: Add missing TLB page invalidation for hugetlb_cow()
authorAnthony Iliopoulos <anthony.iliopoulos@huawei.com>
Wed, 14 May 2014 09:29:48 +0000 (11:29 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 7 Jun 2014 17:28:10 +0000 (10:28 -0700)
commitd0cdfb253ea2c82d650ce656160ffd233bf736f5
tree81b475e6c2ccb1fef7369bbc0ac691ce3fb3f861
parent57a0cd815351438f7ed67a6923b33eb6cdde4986
x86, mm, hugetlb: Add missing TLB page invalidation for hugetlb_cow()

commit 9844f5462392b53824e8b86726e7c33b5ecbb676 upstream.

The invalidation is required in order to maintain proper semantics
under CoW conditions. In scenarios where a process clones several
threads, a thread operating on a core whose DTLB entry for a
particular hugepage has not been invalidated, will be reading from
the hugepage that belongs to the forked child process, even after
hugetlb_cow().

The thread will not see the updated page as long as the stale DTLB
entry remains cached, the thread attempts to write into the page,
the child process exits, or the thread gets migrated to a different
processor.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos <anthony.iliopoulos@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140514092948.GA17391@server-36.huawei.corp
Suggested-by: Shay Goikhman <shay.goikhman@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h