mm: hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range()
authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:00:19 +0000 (14:00 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:53:51 +0000 (12:53 -0700)
commit32226c206801036be8d17e183ee51391f601a6cc
treeecbecac027890c1935e99399362e99380358d922
parentb0c6b604a01b85e4f0ce86272e8e49ae9e52a8d5
mm: hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range()

commit 0253d634e0803a8376a0d88efee0bf523d8673f9 upstream.

Commit 4a705fef9862 ("hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range() to handle
migration/hwpoisoned entry") changed the order of
huge_ptep_set_wrprotect() and huge_ptep_get(), which leads to breakage
in some workloads like hugepage-backed heap allocation via libhugetlbfs.
This patch fixes it.

The test program for the problem is shown below:

  $ cat heap.c
  #include <unistd.h>
  #include <stdlib.h>
  #include <string.h>

  #define HPS 0x200000

  int main() {
   int i;
   char *p = malloc(HPS);
   memset(p, '1', HPS);
   for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
   if (!fork()) {
   memset(p, '2', HPS);
   p = malloc(HPS);
   memset(p, '3', HPS);
   free(p);
   return 0;
   }
   }
   sleep(1);
   free(p);
   return 0;
  }

  $ export HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes ; export HUGETLB_NO_PREFAULT= ; hugectl --heap ./heap

Fixes 4a705fef9862 ("hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range() to handle
migration/hwpoisoned entry"), so is applicable to -stable kernels which
include it.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reported-by: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@morinfr.org>
Suggested-by: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@morinfr.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/hugetlb.c