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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>
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 02:59:56 +0000 (13:59 +1100)
commitdebb1a65c0b65ac03a8ff004710ee48a1ae55abe
tree0ce59d67991dc96dab8b567a6a9360d9a24536f3
parentb2107a1e74a0472216df40a3e3d62c50edaa7e84
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