mm: clear pmd_numa before invalidating
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:08:34 +0000 (17:08 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 03:04:51 +0000 (19:04 -0800)
commit67f87463d3a3362424efcbe8b40e4772fd34fc61
treeb1c6f03215b39dc696c8801bc91310e0aa9ffd47
parentf714f4f20e59ea6eea264a86b9a51fd51b88fc54
mm: clear pmd_numa before invalidating

On x86, PMD entries are similar to _PAGE_PROTNONE protection and are
handled as NUMA hinting faults.  The following two page table protection
bits are what defines them

_PAGE_NUMA:set _PAGE_PRESENT:clear

A PMD is considered present if any of the _PAGE_PRESENT, _PAGE_PROTNONE,
_PAGE_PSE or _PAGE_NUMA bits are set.  If pmdp_invalidate encounters a
pmd_numa, it clears the present bit leaving _PAGE_NUMA which will be
considered not present by the CPU but present by pmd_present.  The
existing caller of pmdp_invalidate should handle it but it's an
inconsistent state for a PMD.  This patch keeps the state consistent
when calling pmdp_invalidate.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/pgtable-generic.c