linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: Add missing cache flushing in hugetlb_unshare_all

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Message-ID: <YmT//huUbFX+KHcy@FVFYT0MHHV2J.usts.net>
Date:   Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:45:02 +0800
From:   Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
To:     Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mike.kravetz@...cle.com,
        peterx@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: Add missing cache flushing in
 hugetlb_unshare_all_pmds()

On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 02:33:19PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
> Missed calling flush_cache_range() before removing the sharing PMD entrires,
> otherwise data consistence issue may be occurred on some architectures whose
> caches are strict and require a virtual–>physical translation to exist for
> a virtual address. Thus add it.
> 
> Fixes: 6dfeaff93be1 ("hugetlb/userfaultfd: unshare all pmds for hugetlbfs when register wp")
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>

CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE is only definded on riscv, arm64 and
x86.  All of them do not have a VIVT cache.  In others words,
flush_cache_range() is null on those architectures. So I suspect
in practice this does not cause any issue.  It is better to
clarify this in commit log.

Anyway:

Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>

Thanks.