[PATCH -V8 18/18] powerpc: disable assert_pte_locked for collapse_huge_page

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon May 13 02:14:25 EST 2013


From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

With THP we set pmd to none, before we do pte_clear. Hence we can't
walk page table to get the pte lock ptr and verify whether it is locked.
THP do take pte lock before calling pte_clear. So we don't change the locking
rules here. It is that we can't use page table walking to check whether
pte locks are held with THP.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
index 214130a..edda589 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -235,6 +235,14 @@ void assert_pte_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
 	pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr);
 	BUG_ON(pud_none(*pud));
 	pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
+	/*
+	 * khugepaged to collapse normal pages to hugepage, first set
+	 * pmd to none to force page fault/gup to take mmap_sem. After
+	 * pmd is set to none, we do a pte_clear which does this assertion
+	 * so if we find pmd none, return.
+	 */
+	if (pmd_none(*pmd))
+		return;
 	BUG_ON(!pmd_present(*pmd));
 	assert_spin_locked(pte_lockptr(mm, pmd));
 }
-- 
1.8.1.2



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