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Will Deacon f4e177d126 mm/migrate.c: stabilise page count when migrating transparent hugepages
When migrating a transparent hugepage, migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page
guards itself against a concurrent fastgup of the page by checking that
the page count is equal to 2 before and after installing the new pmd.

If the page count changes, then the pmd is reverted back to the original
entry, however there is a small window where the new (possibly writable)
pmd is installed and the underlying page could be written by userspace.
Restoring the old pmd could therefore result in loss of data.

This patch fixes the problem by freezing the page count whilst updating
the page tables, which protects against a concurrent fastgup without the
need to restore the old pmd in the failure case (since the page count
can no longer change under our feet).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497349722-6731-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-09 11:21:31 -07:00
block Merge branch 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-06 20:57:13 -07:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto dmaengine updates for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-08 12:36:50 -07:00
Documentation mm, vmpressure: pass-through notification support 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
drivers Some small fixes for IPMI, and one medium sized changed. 2017-07-10 10:59:29 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs mm: hwpoison: dissolve in-use hugepage in unrecoverable memory error 2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
include include/linux/page_ref.h: ensure page_ref_unfreeze is ordered against prior accesses 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
init mm: allow slab_nomerge to be set at build time 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
ipc mqueue: fix a use-after-free in sys_mq_notify() 2017-07-09 14:37:19 -07:00
kernel mm: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE immediately active 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
lib dmaengine updates for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-08 12:36:50 -07:00
mm mm/migrate.c: stabilise page count when migrating transparent hugepages 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
net mpls: fix uninitialized in_label var warning in mpls_getroute 2017-07-08 11:26:41 +01:00
samples bpf: fix return in load_bpf_file 2017-07-05 09:05:28 +01:00
scripts Kbuild thin archives updates for v4.13 2017-07-07 15:11:12 -07:00
security Merge branch 'work.memdup_user' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-05 16:05:24 -07:00
sound main drm pull for v4.13 2017-07-09 18:48:37 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-09 10:49:47 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt PPC: 2017-07-06 18:38:31 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
COPYING
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS main drm pull for v4.13 2017-07-09 18:48:37 -07:00
Makefile Kbuild thin archives updates for v4.13 2017-07-07 15:11:12 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.