mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:21:25 +0000 (06:21 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 5 Dec 2017 10:24:31 +0000 (11:24 +0100)
commit7031ae2ab37d3df53c4a4e9903329a5d38c745ec
treee7fafecee20f76d05b16581c92b2c2966ff7d063
parent29bd7003134a3220119e7a75c4b06ac567f966e7
mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()

commit a8f97366452ed491d13cf1e44241bc0b5740b1f0 upstream.

Currently, we unconditionally make page table dirty in touch_pmd().
It may result in false-positive can_follow_write_pmd().

We may avoid the situation, if we would only make the page table entry
dirty if caller asks for write access -- FOLL_WRITE.

The patch also changes touch_pud() in the same way.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[Salvatore Bonaccorso: backport for 4.9:
 - Adjust context
 - Drop specific part for PUD-sized transparent hugepages. Support
   for PUD-sized transparent hugepages was added in v4.11-rc1
]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/huge_memory.c