[PATCH] Fix handling spurious page fault for hugetlb region

This reverts commit 3359b54c8c07338f3a863d1109b42eebccdcf379 and
replaces it with a cleaner version that is purely based on page table
operations, so that the synchronization between inode size and hugetlb
mappings becomes moot.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

3 files changed, 27 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 42cb7d70f9a..d664330d900 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ int is_hugepage_mem_enough(size_t);
 unsigned long hugetlb_total_pages(void);
 struct page *alloc_huge_page(void);
 void free_huge_page(struct page *);
+int hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+			unsigned long address, int write_access);
 
 extern unsigned long max_huge_pages;
 extern const unsigned long hugetlb_zero, hugetlb_infinity;
@@ -99,6 +101,7 @@ static inline unsigned long hugetlb_total_pages(void)
 						do { } while (0)
 #define alloc_huge_page()			({ NULL; })
 #define free_huge_page(p)			({ (void)(p); BUG(); })
+#define hugetlb_fault(mm, vma, addr, write)	({ BUG(); 0; })
 
 #ifndef HPAGE_MASK
 #define HPAGE_MASK	0		/* Keep the compiler happy */
@@ -155,24 +158,11 @@ static inline void set_file_hugepages(struct file *file)
 {
 	file->f_op = &hugetlbfs_file_operations;
 }
-
-static inline int valid_hugetlb_file_off(struct vm_area_struct *vma, 
-					  unsigned long address) 
-{
-	struct inode *inode = vma->vm_file->f_dentry->d_inode;
-	loff_t file_off = address - vma->vm_start;
-	
-	file_off += (vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT);
-	
-	return (file_off < inode->i_size);
-}
-
 #else /* !CONFIG_HUGETLBFS */
 
 #define is_file_hugepages(file)		0
 #define set_file_hugepages(file)	BUG()
 #define hugetlb_zero_setup(size)	ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS)
-#define valid_hugetlb_file_off(vma, address) 	0
 
 #endif /* !CONFIG_HUGETLBFS */
 
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index a1b30d45459..61d38067803 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -394,6 +394,28 @@ out:
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * On ia64 at least, it is possible to receive a hugetlb fault from a
+ * stale zero entry left in the TLB from earlier hardware prefetching.
+ * Low-level arch code should already have flushed the stale entry as
+ * part of its fault handling, but we do need to accept this minor fault
+ * and return successfully.  Whereas the "normal" case is that this is
+ * an access to a hugetlb page which has been truncated off since mmap.
+ */
+int hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+			unsigned long address, int write_access)
+{
+	int ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
+	pte_t *pte;
+
+	spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+	pte = huge_pte_offset(mm, address);
+	if (pte && !pte_none(*pte))
+		ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
+	spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 int follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas,
 			unsigned long *position, int *length, int i)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 8c88b973abc..1db40e935e5 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2045,18 +2045,8 @@ int __handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct * vma,
 
 	inc_page_state(pgfault);
 
-	if (unlikely(is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))) {
-		if (valid_hugetlb_file_off(vma, address))
-			/* We get here only if there was a stale(zero) TLB entry 
-			 * (because of  HW prefetching). 
-			 * Low-level arch code (if needed) should have already
-			 * purged the stale entry as part of this fault handling.  
-			 * Here we just return.
-			 */
-			return VM_FAULT_MINOR; 
-		else
-			return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;	/* mapping truncation does this. */
-	}
+	if (unlikely(is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)))
+		return hugetlb_fault(mm, vma, address, write_access);
 
 	/*
 	 * We need the page table lock to synchronize with kswapd