Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix possible race with set_pte on a present PTE | | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | | Date | Wed, 26 May 2004 14:12:02 +1000 |
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On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 14:08, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> You're right. We do use it on the do_wp_page() path, and there we actually > use a whole new page in the "break_cow()" case. That case is in fact > fundamentally different from the other ones. > > So we should probably break up the "ptep_establish()" into its two pieces, > since the callers don't actually want to do the same thing. One really > wants to do a "clear old one, set a totally new one", and the two other > places want to actually update just the dirty and accessed bits.
The first one could still be called "pte_establish" ... I mean, it makes little sense to continue calling "pte_establish" something that just does set one of those 2 bits... And the flush done by pte_establish in this case is useless on ppc... so I'd rather kill pte_establish completely instead and define it's arch (or generic) impl. of ptep_set_dirty_accessed() responsibility to do the TLB flush if necessary, no ? (well, a call to it on ppc isn't expensive if we didn't add anything to the batch anyway...)
> In fact, the only non-generic user of "ptep_establish()" (s390) didn't > want to use the generic version exactly because of this very conceptual > bug. It uses "ptep_clear_flush()" for the replacement case, which actually > makes sense. > > So does it work if you do this appended patch first? This is a real > cleanup, and I think it will allow us to get rid of the s390-specific code > in ptep_establish(). Along with hopefully fixing your problem too. > > After this, we should be able to have a BUG() in "set_pte()" if the entry > wasn't clear before (assuming the arch doesn't use set_pte() for the dirty > updates etc).
Ok, I'll give it a spin.
> Linus > > --- > ===== mm/memory.c 1.177 vs edited ===== > --- 1.177/mm/memory.c Tue May 25 12:37:09 2004 > +++ edited/mm/memory.c Tue May 25 21:04:49 2004 > @@ -1004,7 +1004,10 @@ > flush_cache_page(vma, address); > entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(mk_pte(new_page, vma->vm_page_prot)), > vma); > - ptep_establish(vma, address, page_table, entry, 1); > + > + /* Get rid of the old entry, replace with new */ > + ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, page_table); > + set_pte(page_table, entry); > update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry); > } > -- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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