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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2013-12-18 17:08:32 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-12-18 19:04:50 -0800
commit2b4847e73004c10ae6666c2e27b5c5430aed8698 (patch)
treef5062cda19087b1d9a6830feffc4089aeb5b7fc8 /Documentation
parentc97102ba96324da330078ad8619ba4dfe840dbe3 (diff)
mm: numa: serialise parallel get_user_page against THP migration
Base pages are unmapped and flushed from cache and TLB during normal page migration and replaced with a migration entry that causes any parallel NUMA hinting fault or gup to block until migration completes. THP does not unmap pages due to a lack of support for migration entries at a PMD level. This allows races with get_user_pages and get_user_pages_fast which commit 3f926ab945b6 ("mm: Close races between THP migration and PMD numa clearing") made worse by introducing a pmd_clear_flush(). This patch forces get_user_page (fast and normal) on a pmd_numa page to go through the slow get_user_page path where it will serialise against THP migration and properly account for the NUMA hinting fault. On the migration side the page table lock is taken for each PTE update. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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