[PATCH V3] powerpc/mm: Fix Multi hit ERAT cause by recent THP update
Balbir Singh
bsingharora at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 16:09:57 AEDT 2016
> Now we can't depend for mm_cpumask, a parallel find_linux_pte_hugepte
> can happen outside that. Now i had a variant for kick_all_cpus_sync that
> ignored idle cpus. But then that needs more verification.
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ppc.embedded/81105
Can be racy as a CPU moves from non-idle to idle
In
> + pmd_hugepage_update(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, ~0UL, 0);
> + /*
> + * This ensures that generic code that rely on IRQ disabling
> + * to prevent a parallel THP split work as expected.
> + */
> + kick_all_cpus_sync();
pmdp_invalidate()->pmd_hugepage_update() can still run in parallel with
find_linux_pte_or_hugepte() and race.. Am I missing something?
Balbir Singh
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