From f0efea11557831e9dc7fa860e13f122d237784c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Sandberg Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:20:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mm: Call MMU notifiers when copying a hugetlb page range When copy_hugetlb_page_range is called to copy a range of hugetlb mappings, the secondary MMUs are not notified if there is a protection downgrade, which breaks COW semantics in KVM. This patch adds the necessary MMU notifier calls. --- mm/hugetlb.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index b60f330..1793e82 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -2312,16 +2312,26 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src, int cow; struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma); unsigned long sz = huge_page_size(h); + unsigned long mmun_start; /* For mmu_notifiers */ + unsigned long mmun_end; /* For mmu_notifiers */ + int ret; + ret = 0; cow = (vma->vm_flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYWRITE)) == VM_MAYWRITE; + mmun_start = vma->vm_start; + mmun_end = vma->vm_end; + if (cow) + mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(src, mmun_start, mmun_end); for (addr = vma->vm_start; addr < vma->vm_end; addr += sz) { src_pte = huge_pte_offset(src, addr); if (!src_pte) continue; dst_pte = huge_pte_alloc(dst, addr, sz); - if (!dst_pte) - goto nomem; + if (!dst_pte) { + ret = -ENOMEM; + break; + } /* If the pagetables are shared don't copy or take references */ if (dst_pte == src_pte) @@ -2341,10 +2351,11 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src, spin_unlock(&src->page_table_lock); spin_unlock(&dst->page_table_lock); } - return 0; -nomem: - return -ENOMEM; + if (cow) + mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(src, mmun_start, mmun_end); + + return ret; } static int is_hugetlb_entry_migration(pte_t pte) -- 1.7.9.5