From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752530AbaHDRER (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2014 13:04:17 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:56543 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751611AbaHDQt4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2014 12:49:56 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Linus Torvalds" , "Hugh Dickins" , "Guillaume Morin" , "Naoya Horiguchi" Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:48:32 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 85/94] mm: hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range() In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.249 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.62-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Naoya Horiguchi 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 #include #include #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 Reported-by: Guillaume Morin Suggested-by: Guillaume Morin Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- mm/hugetlb.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -2344,6 +2344,7 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_st } else { if (cow) huge_ptep_set_wrprotect(src, addr, src_pte); + entry = huge_ptep_get(src_pte); ptepage = pte_page(entry); get_page(ptepage); page_dup_rmap(ptepage);