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Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:37:13 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH v2] mm: hugetlb: add arch hook for clearing page flags before entering pool

The core page allocator ensures that page flags are zeroed when freeing
pages via free_pages_check. A number of architectures (ARM, PPC, MIPS)
rely on this property to treat new pages as dirty with respect to the
data cache and perform the appropriate flushing before mapping the pages
into userspace.

This can lead to cache synchronisation problems when using hugepages,
since the allocator keeps its own pool of pages above the usual page
allocator and does not reset the page flags when freeing a page into
the pool.

This patch adds a new architecture hook, arch_clear_hugepage_flags, so
that architectures which rely on the page flags being in a particular
state for fresh allocations can adjust the flags accordingly when a
page is freed into the pool.

Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
---

v2: Made ia64 and powerpc code a nop, moved hook to free_huge_page

 arch/ia64/include/asm/hugetlb.h    |    4 ++++
 arch/mips/include/asm/hugetlb.h    |    4 ++++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h |    4 ++++
 arch/s390/include/asm/hugetlb.h    |    1 +
 arch/sh/include/asm/hugetlb.h      |    6 ++++++
 arch/sparc/include/asm/hugetlb.h   |    4 ++++
 arch/tile/include/asm/hugetlb.h    |    4 ++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h     |    4 ++++
 mm/hugetlb.c                       |    1 +
 9 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/hugetlb.h
index da55c63..94eaa5b 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/hugetlb.h
@@ -77,4 +77,8 @@ static inline void arch_release_hugepage(struct page *page)
 {
 }
 
+static inline void arch_clear_hugepage_flags(struct page *page)
+{
+}
+
 #endif /* _ASM_IA64_HUGETLB_H */
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/hugetlb.h
index 58d3688..bd94946 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/hugetlb.h
@@ -112,4 +112,8 @@ static inline void arch_release_hugepage(struct page *page)
 {
 }
 
+static inline void arch_clear_hugepage_flags(struct page *page)
+{
+}
+
 #endif /* __ASM_HUGETLB_H */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
index dfdb95b..62e11a3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
@@ -151,6 +151,10 @@ static inline void arch_release_hugepage(struct page *page)
 {
 }
 
+static inline void arch_clear_hugepage_flags(struct page *page)
+{
+}
+
 #else /* ! CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
 static inline void flush_hugetlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				      unsigned long vmaddr)
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/hugetlb.h
index 799ed0f..faa7655 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/hugetlb.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ static inline int prepare_hugepage_range(struct file *file,
 }
 
 #define hugetlb_prefault_arch_hook(mm)		do { } while (0)
+#define arch_clear_hugepage_flags(page)		do { } while (0)
 
 int arch_prepare_hugepage(struct page *page);
 void arch_release_hugepage(struct page *page);
diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/hugetlb.h
index 967068f..b3808c7 100644
--- a/arch/sh/include/asm/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/hugetlb.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_SH_HUGETLB_H
 #define _ASM_SH_HUGETLB_H
 
+#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
 
 
@@ -89,4 +90,9 @@ static inline void arch_release_hugepage(struct page *page)
 {
 }
 
+static inline void arch_clear_hugepage_flags(struct page *page)
+{
+	clear_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &page->flags);
+}
+
 #endif /* _ASM_SH_HUGETLB_H */
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
index 1770610..e7927c9 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/hugetlb.h
@@ -82,4 +82,8 @@ static inline void arch_release_hugepage(struct page *page)
 {
 }
 
+static inline void arch_clear_hugepage_flags(struct page *page)
+{
+}
+
 #endif /* _ASM_SPARC64_HUGETLB_H */
diff --git a/arch/tile/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/tile/include/asm/hugetlb.h
index b204238..0f885af 100644
--- a/arch/tile/include/asm/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/tile/include/asm/hugetlb.h
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ static inline void arch_release_hugepage(struct page *page)
 {
 }
 
+static inline void arch_clear_hugepage_flags(struct page *page)
+{
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_SUPER_PAGES
 static inline pte_t arch_make_huge_pte(pte_t entry, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				       struct page *page, int writable)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h
index 439a9ac..bdd35db 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h
@@ -90,4 +90,8 @@ static inline void arch_release_hugepage(struct page *page)
 {
 }
 
+static inline void arch_clear_hugepage_flags(struct page *page)
+{
+}
+
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_HUGETLB_H */
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index bc72712..f1bb534 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -637,6 +637,7 @@ static void free_huge_page(struct page *page)
 		h->surplus_huge_pages--;
 		h->surplus_huge_pages_node[nid]--;
 	} else {
+		arch_clear_hugepage_flags(page);
 		enqueue_huge_page(h, page);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
-- 
1.7.4.1

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