linux-kernel - [RFC][PATCH 07/10] x86/mm/cpa: Make cpa

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Message-Id: <20181203171043.493000228@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:03:50 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     dave.hansen@...el.com, luto@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Tom.StDenis@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 07/10] x86/mm/cpa: Make cpa_data::numpages invariant

Make sure __change_page_attr_set_clr() doesn't modify cpa->numpages.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c |   21 +++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -1623,14 +1623,15 @@ static int cpa_process_alias(struct cpa_
 static int __change_page_attr_set_clr(struct cpa_data *cpa, int checkalias)
 {
 	unsigned long numpages = cpa->numpages;
-	int ret;
+	unsigned long rempages = numpages;
+	int ret = 0;
 
-	while (numpages) {
+	while (rempages) {
 		/*
 		 * Store the remaining nr of pages for the large page
 		 * preservation check.
 		 */
-		cpa->numpages = numpages;
+		cpa->numpages = rempages;
 		/* for array changes, we can't use large page */
 		if (cpa->flags & (CPA_ARRAY | CPA_PAGES_ARRAY))
 			cpa->numpages = 1;
@@ -1641,12 +1642,12 @@ static int __change_page_attr_set_clr(st
 		if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
 			spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
 		if (ret)
-			return ret;
+			goto out;
 
 		if (checkalias) {
 			ret = cpa_process_alias(cpa);
 			if (ret)
-				return ret;
+				goto out;
 		}
 
 		/*
@@ -1654,11 +1655,15 @@ static int __change_page_attr_set_clr(st
 		 * CPA operation. Either a large page has been
 		 * preserved or a single page update happened.
 		 */
-		BUG_ON(cpa->numpages > numpages || !cpa->numpages);
-		numpages -= cpa->numpages;
+		BUG_ON(cpa->numpages > rempages || !cpa->numpages);
+		rempages -= cpa->numpages;
 		cpa->curpage += cpa->numpages;
 	}
-	return 0;
+
+out:
+	/* Restore the original numpages */
+	cpa->numpages = numpages;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 /*