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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2009-05-28 14:34:37 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-05-29 08:40:03 -0700
commit32b154c0b0bae2879bf4e549d861caf1759a3546 (patch)
treedbd2c6df9511ee400c5460ef714955d15b689cf4 /arch
parent53b7479bbdaedcc7846c66fd608fe66f1b5aa35b (diff)
x86: ignore VM_LOCKED when determining if hugetlb-backed page tables can be shared or not
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13302 On x86 and x86-64, it is possible that page tables are shared beween shared mappings backed by hugetlbfs. As part of this, page_table_shareable() checks a pair of vma->vm_flags and they must match if they are to be shared. All VMA flags are taken into account, including VM_LOCKED. The problem is that VM_LOCKED is cleared on fork(). When a process with a shared memory segment forks() to exec() a helper, there will be shared VMAs with different flags. The impact is that the shared segment is sometimes considered shareable and other times not, depending on what process is checking. What happens is that the segment page tables are being shared but the count is inaccurate depending on the ordering of events. As the page tables are freed with put_page(), bad pmd's are found when some of the children exit. The hugepage counters also get corrupted and the Total and Free count will no longer match even when all the hugepage-backed regions are freed. This requires a reboot of the machine to "fix". This patch addresses the problem by comparing all flags except VM_LOCKED when deciding if pagetables should be shared or not for hugetlbfs-backed mapping. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <starlight@binnacle.cx> Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 8f307d914c2e..f46c340727b8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -26,12 +26,16 @@ static unsigned long page_table_shareable(struct vm_area_struct *svma,
unsigned long sbase = saddr & PUD_MASK;
unsigned long s_end = sbase + PUD_SIZE;
+ /* Allow segments to share if only one is marked locked */
+ unsigned long vm_flags = vma->vm_flags & ~VM_LOCKED;
+ unsigned long svm_flags = svma->vm_flags & ~VM_LOCKED;
+
/*
* match the virtual addresses, permission and the alignment of the
* page table page.
*/
if (pmd_index(addr) != pmd_index(saddr) ||
- vma->vm_flags != svma->vm_flags ||
+ vm_flags != svm_flags ||
sbase < svma->vm_start || svma->vm_end < s_end)
return 0;