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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>mm/memory-hotplug: fix lowmem count overflow when offline pages</title>
<updated>2013-08-04T08:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wanpeng Li</name>
<email>liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T22:02:40+00:00</published>
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commit cea27eb2a202959783f81254c48c250ddd80e129 upstream.

The logic for the memory-remove code fails to correctly account the
Total High Memory when a memory block which contains High Memory is
offlined as shown in the example below.  The following patch fixes it.

Before logic memory remove:

MemTotal:        7603740 kB
MemFree:         6329612 kB
Buffers:           94352 kB
Cached:           872008 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:           626932 kB
Inactive:         519216 kB
Active(anon):     180776 kB
Inactive(anon):   222944 kB
Active(file):     446156 kB
Inactive(file):   296272 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:       7294672 kB
HighFree:        5704696 kB
LowTotal:         309068 kB
LowFree:          624916 kB

After logic memory remove:

MemTotal:        7079452 kB
MemFree:         5805976 kB
Buffers:           94372 kB
Cached:           872000 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:           626936 kB
Inactive:         519236 kB
Active(anon):     180780 kB
Inactive(anon):   222944 kB
Active(file):     446156 kB
Inactive(file):   296292 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:       7294672 kB
HighFree:        5181024 kB
LowTotal:       4294752076 kB
LowFree:          624952 kB

[mhocko@suse.cz: fix CONFIG_HIGHMEM=n build]
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[2.6.24+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhouping Liu &lt;zliu@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit cea27eb2a202959783f81254c48c250ddd80e129 upstream.

The logic for the memory-remove code fails to correctly account the
Total High Memory when a memory block which contains High Memory is
offlined as shown in the example below.  The following patch fixes it.

Before logic memory remove:

MemTotal:        7603740 kB
MemFree:         6329612 kB
Buffers:           94352 kB
Cached:           872008 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:           626932 kB
Inactive:         519216 kB
Active(anon):     180776 kB
Inactive(anon):   222944 kB
Active(file):     446156 kB
Inactive(file):   296272 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:       7294672 kB
HighFree:        5704696 kB
LowTotal:         309068 kB
LowFree:          624916 kB

After logic memory remove:

MemTotal:        7079452 kB
MemFree:         5805976 kB
Buffers:           94372 kB
Cached:           872000 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:           626936 kB
Inactive:         519236 kB
Active(anon):     180780 kB
Inactive(anon):   222944 kB
Active(file):     446156 kB
Inactive(file):   296292 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:       7294672 kB
HighFree:        5181024 kB
LowTotal:       4294752076 kB
LowFree:          624952 kB

[mhocko@suse.cz: fix CONFIG_HIGHMEM=n build]
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[2.6.24+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhouping Liu &lt;zliu@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: migration: add migrate_entry_wait_huge()</title>
<updated>2013-06-20T18:58:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-12T21:05:04+00:00</published>
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commit 30dad30922ccc733cfdbfe232090cf674dc374dc upstream.

When we have a page fault for the address which is backed by a hugepage
under migration, the kernel can't wait correctly and do busy looping on
hugepage fault until the migration finishes.  As a result, users who try
to kick hugepage migration (via soft offlining, for example) occasionally
experience long delay or soft lockup.

This is because pte_offset_map_lock() can't get a correct migration entry
or a correct page table lock for hugepage.  This patch introduces
migration_entry_wait_huge() to solve this.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 30dad30922ccc733cfdbfe232090cf674dc374dc upstream.

When we have a page fault for the address which is backed by a hugepage
under migration, the kernel can't wait correctly and do busy looping on
hugepage fault until the migration finishes.  As a result, users who try
to kick hugepage migration (via soft offlining, for example) occasionally
experience long delay or soft lockup.

This is because pte_offset_map_lock() can't get a correct migration entry
or a correct page table lock for hugepage.  This patch introduces
migration_entry_wait_huge() to solve this.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>swap: avoid read_swap_cache_async() race to deadlock while waiting on discard I/O completion</title>
<updated>2013-06-20T18:58:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael Aquini</name>
<email>aquini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-12T21:04:49+00:00</published>
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commit cbab0e4eec299e9059199ebe6daf48730be46d2b upstream.

read_swap_cache_async() can race against get_swap_page(), and stumble
across a SWAP_HAS_CACHE entry in the swap map whose page wasn't brought
into the swapcache yet.

This transient swap_map state is expected to be transitory, but the
actual placement of discard at scan_swap_map() inserts a wait for I/O
completion thus making the thread at read_swap_cache_async() to loop
around its -EEXIST case, while the other end at get_swap_page() is
scheduled away at scan_swap_map().  This can leave the system deadlocked
if the I/O completion happens to be waiting on the CPU waitqueue where
read_swap_cache_async() is busy looping and !CONFIG_PREEMPT.

This patch introduces a cond_resched() call to make the aforementioned
read_swap_cache_async() busy loop condition to bail out when necessary,
thus avoiding the subtle race window.

Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit cbab0e4eec299e9059199ebe6daf48730be46d2b upstream.

read_swap_cache_async() can race against get_swap_page(), and stumble
across a SWAP_HAS_CACHE entry in the swap map whose page wasn't brought
into the swapcache yet.

This transient swap_map state is expected to be transitory, but the
actual placement of discard at scan_swap_map() inserts a wait for I/O
completion thus making the thread at read_swap_cache_async() to loop
around its -EEXIST case, while the other end at get_swap_page() is
scheduled away at scan_swap_map().  This can leave the system deadlocked
if the I/O completion happens to be waiting on the CPU waitqueue where
read_swap_cache_async() is busy looping and !CONFIG_PREEMPT.

This patch introduces a cond_resched() call to make the aforementioned
read_swap_cache_async() busy loop condition to bail out when necessary,
thus avoiding the subtle race window.

Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/THP: use pmd_populate() to update the pmd with pgtable_t pointer</title>
<updated>2013-06-07T19:49:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-24T22:55:21+00:00</published>
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commit 7c3425123ddfdc5f48e7913ff59d908789712b18 upstream.

We should not use set_pmd_at to update pmd_t with pgtable_t pointer.
set_pmd_at is used to set pmd with huge pte entries and architectures
like ppc64, clear few flags from the pte when saving a new entry.
Without this change we observe bad pte errors like below on ppc64 with
THP enabled.

  BUG: Bad page map in process ld mm=0xc000001ee39f4780 pte:7fc3f37848000001 pmd:c000001ec0000000

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7c3425123ddfdc5f48e7913ff59d908789712b18 upstream.

We should not use set_pmd_at to update pmd_t with pgtable_t pointer.
set_pmd_at is used to set pmd with huge pte entries and architectures
like ppc64, clear few flags from the pte when saving a new entry.
Without this change we observe bad pte errors like below on ppc64 with
THP enabled.

  BUG: Bad page map in process ld mm=0xc000001ee39f4780 pte:7fc3f37848000001 pmd:c000001ec0000000

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm/pagewalk.c: walk_page_range should avoid VM_PFNMAP areas</title>
<updated>2013-06-07T19:49:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cliff Wickman</name>
<email>cpw@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-24T22:55:36+00:00</published>
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commit a9ff785e4437c83d2179161e012f5bdfbd6381f0 upstream.

A panic can be caused by simply cat'ing /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/smaps while an
application has a VM_PFNMAP range.  It happened in-house when a
benchmarker was trying to decipher the memory layout of his program.

/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/smaps and similar walks through a user page table should not
be looking at VM_PFNMAP areas.

Certain tests in walk_page_range() (specifically split_huge_page_pmd())
assume that all the mapped PFN's are backed with page structures.  And
this is not usually true for VM_PFNMAP areas.  This can result in panics
on kernel page faults when attempting to address those page structures.

There are a half dozen callers of walk_page_range() that walk through a
task's entire page table (as N.  Horiguchi pointed out).  So rather than
change all of them, this patch changes just walk_page_range() to ignore
VM_PFNMAP areas.

The logic of hugetlb_vma() is moved back into walk_page_range(), as we
want to test any vma in the range.

VM_PFNMAP areas are used by:
- graphics memory manager   gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
- global reference unit     sgi-gru/grufile.c
- sgi special memory        char/mspec.c
- and probably several out-of-tree modules

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unused hugetlb_vma() stub]
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman &lt;cpw@sgi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a9ff785e4437c83d2179161e012f5bdfbd6381f0 upstream.

A panic can be caused by simply cat'ing /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/smaps while an
application has a VM_PFNMAP range.  It happened in-house when a
benchmarker was trying to decipher the memory layout of his program.

/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/smaps and similar walks through a user page table should not
be looking at VM_PFNMAP areas.

Certain tests in walk_page_range() (specifically split_huge_page_pmd())
assume that all the mapped PFN's are backed with page structures.  And
this is not usually true for VM_PFNMAP areas.  This can result in panics
on kernel page faults when attempting to address those page structures.

There are a half dozen callers of walk_page_range() that walk through a
task's entire page table (as N.  Horiguchi pointed out).  So rather than
change all of them, this patch changes just walk_page_range() to ignore
VM_PFNMAP areas.

The logic of hugetlb_vma() is moved back into walk_page_range(), as we
want to test any vma in the range.

VM_PFNMAP areas are used by:
- graphics memory manager   gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
- global reference unit     sgi-gru/grufile.c
- sgi special memory        char/mspec.c
- and probably several out-of-tree modules

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unused hugetlb_vma() stub]
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman &lt;cpw@sgi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: mmu_notifier: re-fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU</title>
<updated>2013-06-07T19:49:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiao Guangrong</name>
<email>xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-24T22:55:11+00:00</published>
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commit d34883d4e35c0a994e91dd847a82b4c9e0c31d83 upstream.

Commit 751efd8610d3 ("mmu_notifier_unregister NULL Pointer deref and
multiple -&gt;release()") breaks the fix 3ad3d901bbcf ("mm: mmu_notifier:
fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU").

Since hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() is changed now, we can not revert that
patch directly, so this patch reverts the commit and simply fix the bug
spotted by that patch

This bug spotted by commit 751efd8610d3 is:

    There is a race condition between mmu_notifier_unregister() and
    __mmu_notifier_release().

    Assume two tasks, one calling mmu_notifier_unregister() as a result
    of a filp_close() -&gt;flush() callout (task A), and the other calling
    mmu_notifier_release() from an mmput() (task B).

                        A                               B
    t1                                            srcu_read_lock()
    t2            if (!hlist_unhashed())
    t3                                            srcu_read_unlock()
    t4            srcu_read_lock()
    t5                                            hlist_del_init_rcu()
    t6                                            synchronize_srcu()
    t7            srcu_read_unlock()
    t8            hlist_del_rcu()  &lt;--- NULL pointer deref.

This can be fixed by using hlist_del_init_rcu instead of hlist_del_rcu.

The another issue spotted in the commit is "multiple -&gt;release()
callouts", we needn't care it too much because it is really rare (e.g,
can not happen on kvm since mmu-notify is unregistered after
exit_mmap()) and the later call of multiple -&gt;release should be fast
since all the pages have already been released by the first call.
Anyway, this issue should be fixed in a separate patch.

-stable suggestions: Any version that has commit 751efd8610d3 need to be
backported.  I find the oldest version has this commit is 3.0-stable.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d34883d4e35c0a994e91dd847a82b4c9e0c31d83 upstream.

Commit 751efd8610d3 ("mmu_notifier_unregister NULL Pointer deref and
multiple -&gt;release()") breaks the fix 3ad3d901bbcf ("mm: mmu_notifier:
fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU").

Since hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() is changed now, we can not revert that
patch directly, so this patch reverts the commit and simply fix the bug
spotted by that patch

This bug spotted by commit 751efd8610d3 is:

    There is a race condition between mmu_notifier_unregister() and
    __mmu_notifier_release().

    Assume two tasks, one calling mmu_notifier_unregister() as a result
    of a filp_close() -&gt;flush() callout (task A), and the other calling
    mmu_notifier_release() from an mmput() (task B).

                        A                               B
    t1                                            srcu_read_lock()
    t2            if (!hlist_unhashed())
    t3                                            srcu_read_unlock()
    t4            srcu_read_lock()
    t5                                            hlist_del_init_rcu()
    t6                                            synchronize_srcu()
    t7            srcu_read_unlock()
    t8            hlist_del_rcu()  &lt;--- NULL pointer deref.

This can be fixed by using hlist_del_init_rcu instead of hlist_del_rcu.

The another issue spotted in the commit is "multiple -&gt;release()
callouts", we needn't care it too much because it is really rare (e.g,
can not happen on kvm since mmu-notify is unregistered after
exit_mmap()) and the later call of multiple -&gt;release should be fast
since all the pages have already been released by the first call.
Anyway, this issue should be fixed in a separate patch.

-stable suggestions: Any version that has commit 751efd8610d3 need to be
backported.  I find the oldest version has this commit is 3.0-stable.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm compaction: fix of improper cache flush in migration code</title>
<updated>2013-06-07T19:49:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leonid Yegoshin</name>
<email>Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-24T22:55:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=11e88c5e7bbb812ed25f1e6a8e98d334f0e7dc38'/>
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commit c2cc499c5bcf9040a738f49e8051b42078205748 upstream.

Page 'new' during MIGRATION can't be flushed with flush_cache_page().
Using flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pfn) is justified only if the page is
already placed in process page table, and that is done right after
flush_cache_page().  But without it the arch function has no knowledge
of process PTE and does nothing.

Besides that, flush_cache_page() flushes an application cache page, but
the kernel has a different page virtual address and dirtied it.

Replace it with flush_dcache_page(new) which is the proper usage.

The old page is flushed in try_to_unmap_one() before migration.

This bug takes place in Sead3 board with M14Kc MIPS CPU without cache
aliasing (but Harvard arch - separate I and D cache) in tight memory
environment (128MB) each 1-3days on SOAK test.  It fails in cc1 during
kernel build (SIGILL, SIGBUS, SIGSEG) if CONFIG_COMPACTION is switched
ON.

Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;yegoshin@mips.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c2cc499c5bcf9040a738f49e8051b42078205748 upstream.

Page 'new' during MIGRATION can't be flushed with flush_cache_page().
Using flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pfn) is justified only if the page is
already placed in process page table, and that is done right after
flush_cache_page().  But without it the arch function has no knowledge
of process PTE and does nothing.

Besides that, flush_cache_page() flushes an application cache page, but
the kernel has a different page virtual address and dirtied it.

Replace it with flush_dcache_page(new) which is the proper usage.

The old page is flushed in try_to_unmap_one() before migration.

This bug takes place in Sead3 board with M14Kc MIPS CPU without cache
aliasing (but Harvard arch - separate I and D cache) in tight memory
environment (128MB) each 1-3days on SOAK test.  It fails in cc1 during
kernel build (SIGILL, SIGBUS, SIGSEG) if CONFIG_COMPACTION is switched
ON.

Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin &lt;yegoshin@mips.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hugetlbfs: fix mmap failure in unaligned size request</title>
<updated>2013-05-19T17:54:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-07T23:18:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=dab2d3dc45ae7343216635d981d43637e1cb7d45'/>
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commit af73e4d9506d3b797509f3c030e7dcd554f7d9c4 upstream.

The current kernel returns -EINVAL unless a given mmap length is
"almost" hugepage aligned.  This is because in sys_mmap_pgoff() the
given length is passed to vm_mmap_pgoff() as it is without being aligned
with hugepage boundary.

This is a regression introduced in commit 40716e29243d ("hugetlbfs: fix
alignment of huge page requests"), where alignment code is pushed into
hugetlb_file_setup() and the variable len in caller side is not changed.

To fix this, this patch partially reverts that commit, and adds
alignment code in caller side.  And it also introduces hstate_sizelog()
in order to get proper hstate to specified hugepage size.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56881

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=n]
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reported-by: &lt;iceman_dvd@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Truelove &lt;steven.truelove@utoronto.ca&gt;
Cc: Jianguo Wu &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit af73e4d9506d3b797509f3c030e7dcd554f7d9c4 upstream.

The current kernel returns -EINVAL unless a given mmap length is
"almost" hugepage aligned.  This is because in sys_mmap_pgoff() the
given length is passed to vm_mmap_pgoff() as it is without being aligned
with hugepage boundary.

This is a regression introduced in commit 40716e29243d ("hugetlbfs: fix
alignment of huge page requests"), where alignment code is pushed into
hugetlb_file_setup() and the variable len in caller side is not changed.

To fix this, this patch partially reverts that commit, and adds
alignment code in caller side.  And it also introduces hstate_sizelog()
in order to get proper hstate to specified hugepage size.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56881

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=n]
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reported-by: &lt;iceman_dvd@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Truelove &lt;steven.truelove@utoronto.ca&gt;
Cc: Jianguo Wu &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: allow arch code to control the user page table ceiling</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T02:51:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-29T22:07:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=273a82bee94d42ba58b264bc427cd75df65b81fc'/>
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commit 6ee8630e02be6dd89926ca0fbc21af68b23dc087 upstream.

On architectures where a pgd entry may be shared between user and kernel
(e.g.  ARM+LPAE), freeing page tables needs a ceiling other than 0.
This patch introduces a generic USER_PGTABLES_CEILING that arch code can
override.  It is the responsibility of the arch code setting the ceiling
to ensure the complete freeing of the page tables (usually in
pgd_free()).

[catalin.marinas@arm.com: commit log; shift_arg_pages(), asm-generic/pgtables.h changes]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6ee8630e02be6dd89926ca0fbc21af68b23dc087 upstream.

On architectures where a pgd entry may be shared between user and kernel
(e.g.  ARM+LPAE), freeing page tables needs a ceiling other than 0.
This patch introduces a generic USER_PGTABLES_CEILING that arch code can
override.  It is the responsibility of the arch code setting the ceiling
to ensure the complete freeing of the page tables (usually in
pgd_free()).

[catalin.marinas@arm.com: commit log; shift_arg_pages(), asm-generic/pgtables.h changes]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vm: add vm_iomap_memory() helper function</title>
<updated>2013-04-26T04:19:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-16T20:45:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=c420060e7b21368c21972e8a29e4ff56abb9d219'/>
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commit b4cbb197c7e7a68dbad0d491242e3ca67420c13e upstream.

Various drivers end up replicating the code to mmap() their memory
buffers into user space, and our core memory remapping function may be
very flexible but it is unnecessarily complicated for the common cases
to use.

Our internal VM uses pfn's ("page frame numbers") which simplifies
things for the VM, and allows us to pass physical addresses around in a
denser and more efficient format than passing a "phys_addr_t" around,
and having to shift it up and down by the page size.  But it just means
that drivers end up doing that shifting instead at the interface level.

It also means that drivers end up mucking around with internal VM things
like the vma details (vm_pgoff, vm_start/end) way more than they really
need to.

So this just exports a function to map a certain physical memory range
into user space (using a phys_addr_t based interface that is much more
natural for a driver) and hides all the complexity from the driver.
Some drivers will still end up tweaking the vm_page_prot details for
things like prefetching or cacheability etc, but that's actually
relevant to the driver, rather than caring about what the page offset of
the mapping is into the particular IO memory region.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;

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commit b4cbb197c7e7a68dbad0d491242e3ca67420c13e upstream.

Various drivers end up replicating the code to mmap() their memory
buffers into user space, and our core memory remapping function may be
very flexible but it is unnecessarily complicated for the common cases
to use.

Our internal VM uses pfn's ("page frame numbers") which simplifies
things for the VM, and allows us to pass physical addresses around in a
denser and more efficient format than passing a "phys_addr_t" around,
and having to shift it up and down by the page size.  But it just means
that drivers end up doing that shifting instead at the interface level.

It also means that drivers end up mucking around with internal VM things
like the vma details (vm_pgoff, vm_start/end) way more than they really
need to.

So this just exports a function to map a certain physical memory range
into user space (using a phys_addr_t based interface that is much more
natural for a driver) and hides all the complexity from the driver.
Some drivers will still end up tweaking the vm_page_prot details for
things like prefetching or cacheability etc, but that's actually
relevant to the driver, rather than caring about what the page offset of
the mapping is into the particular IO memory region.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;

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