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authorZhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>2006-03-22 00:08:50 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-22 07:54:03 -0800
commit8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380 (patch)
tree4265e45c4a79d86a16cd5175a836e8c531be8117 /include/linux
parentaed75ff3caafce404d9be7f0c088716375be5279 (diff)
[PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pages
2.6.16-rc3 uses hugetlb on-demand paging, but it doesn_t support hugetlb mprotect. From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Remove a test from the mprotect() path which checks that the mprotect()ed range on a hugepage VMA is hugepage aligned (yes, really, the sense of is_aligned_hugepage_range() is the opposite of what you'd guess :-/). In fact, we don't need this test. If the given addresses match the beginning/end of a hugepage VMA they must already be suitably aligned. If they don't, then mprotect_fixup() will attempt to split the VMA. The very first test in split_vma() will check for a badly aligned address on a hugepage VMA and return -EINVAL if necessary. From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> On i386 and x86-64, pte flag _PAGE_PSE collides with _PAGE_PROTNONE. The identify of hugetlb pte is lost when changing page protection via mprotect. A page fault occurs later will trigger a bug check in huge_pte_alloc(). The fix is to always make new pte a hugetlb pte and also to clean up legacy code where _PAGE_PRESENT is forced on in the pre-faulting day. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/hugetlb.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 68d82ad6b17c..fa83836b63d2 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ struct page *follow_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
pmd_t *pmd, int write);
int is_aligned_hugepage_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len);
int pmd_huge(pmd_t pmd);
+void hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long address, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot);
#ifndef ARCH_HAS_HUGEPAGE_ONLY_RANGE
#define is_hugepage_only_range(mm, addr, len) 0
@@ -101,6 +103,8 @@ static inline unsigned long hugetlb_total_pages(void)
#define free_huge_page(p) ({ (void)(p); BUG(); })
#define hugetlb_fault(mm, vma, addr, write) ({ BUG(); 0; })
+#define hugetlb_change_protection(vma, address, end, newprot)
+
#ifndef HPAGE_MASK
#define HPAGE_MASK PAGE_MASK /* Keep the compiler happy */
#define HPAGE_SIZE PAGE_SIZE