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SubjectRE: [PATCH] ia64: race flushing icache in COW path
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On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 13:37 -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > lazy_mmu_prot_update() is used in a number of other places *after* the pte
> > is established. An explanation as to why this case is different, would be
> > interesting.
>
> The other places do need a close look, it seems that some of
> them may not be needed (e.g. the one inside "if (reuse) { }" at
> the top of do_wp_page() ... at the moment I'm struggling to see
> what it manages to achieve).
>
> Most of the rest are in cases where we are adding a new virtual
> page (comments like "No need to invalidate - it was non-present
> before"). These may also need to have the order shuffled, but
> they seem unlikely to be the cause of a bug (it is unlikely
> that an application has threads that branch to new anonymous
> pages as they are being attached to the process).
>
> So you are right that there may be some more work here, but
> I wanted to get the one-liner that is a clear and obvious
> bugfix posted without being cluttered with some less obvious
> fixes.

How about something like this.
---

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

Since calling of lazy_mmu_prot_update() while the PTE is already set
could open up a race window wrt. icache coherency, make sure all
invocations are done before setting the PTE.

These call-sites are currently not problematic, the one that was has
been addressed by a previous patch. This patch just tidies up the
call semantics for lazy_mmu_prot_update().

Signed-Off-By: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 4 ++--
mm/memory.c | 10 +++++-----
mm/mprotect.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/hugetlb.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/hugetlb.c 2006-07-14 04:54:48.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/hugetlb.c 2006-07-14 05:04:58.000000000 +0200
@@ -313,9 +313,9 @@ static void set_huge_ptep_writable(struc
pte_t entry;

entry = pte_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(*ptep));
+ lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
ptep_set_access_flags(vma, address, ptep, entry, 1);
update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
- lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
}


@@ -634,8 +634,8 @@ void hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm
if (!pte_none(*ptep)) {
pte = huge_ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, ptep);
pte = pte_mkhuge(pte_modify(pte, newprot));
- set_huge_pte_at(mm, address, ptep, pte);
lazy_mmu_prot_update(pte);
+ set_huge_pte_at(mm, address, ptep, pte);
}
}
spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
Index: linux-2.6/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memory.c 2006-07-14 05:00:06.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/memory.c 2006-07-14 05:02:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -1506,9 +1506,9 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *
flush_cache_page(vma, address, pte_pfn(orig_pte));
entry = pte_mkyoung(orig_pte);
entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
+ lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
ptep_set_access_flags(vma, address, page_table, entry, 1);
update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
- lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
ret |= VM_FAULT_WRITE;
goto unlock;
}
@@ -1980,6 +1980,7 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct
}

flush_icache_page(vma, page);
+ lazy_mmu_prot_update(pte);
set_pte_at(mm, address, page_table, pte);
page_add_anon_rmap(page, vma, address);

@@ -1997,7 +1998,6 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct

/* No need to invalidate - it was non-present before */
update_mmu_cache(vma, address, pte);
- lazy_mmu_prot_update(pte);
unlock:
pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
out:
@@ -2055,11 +2055,11 @@ static int do_anonymous_page(struct mm_s
page_add_file_rmap(page);
}

+ lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
set_pte_at(mm, address, page_table, entry);

/* No need to invalidate - it was non-present before */
update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
- lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
unlock:
pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
return VM_FAULT_MINOR;
@@ -2180,6 +2180,7 @@ retry:
entry = mk_pte(new_page, vma->vm_page_prot);
if (write_access)
entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
+ lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
set_pte_at(mm, address, page_table, entry);
if (anon) {
inc_mm_counter(mm, anon_rss);
@@ -2197,7 +2198,6 @@ retry:

/* no need to invalidate: a not-present page shouldn't be cached */
update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
- lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
unlock:
pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
return ret;
@@ -2293,9 +2293,9 @@ static inline int handle_pte_fault(struc
}
entry = pte_mkyoung(entry);
if (!pte_same(old_entry, entry)) {
+ lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
ptep_set_access_flags(vma, address, pte, entry, write_access);
update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
- lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
} else {
/*
* This is needed only for protection faults but the arch code
Index: linux-2.6/mm/mprotect.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/mprotect.c 2006-07-14 04:54:48.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/mprotect.c 2006-07-14 05:03:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ static void change_pte_range(struct mm_s
* into place.
*/
ptent = pte_modify(ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pte), newprot);
- set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, ptent);
lazy_mmu_prot_update(ptent);
+ set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, ptent);
#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
} else if (!pte_file(oldpte)) {
swp_entry_t entry = pte_to_swp_entry(oldpte);

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