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| author | Will Deacon | 2016-06-07 17:55:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Will Deacon | 2016-06-08 10:23:44 +0100 |
| commit | 0106d456c4cb1770253fefc0ab23c9ca760b43f7 (patch) | |
| tree | 9944baa248eb9db183c59bae7bd168c9af20bfab /arch/arm64 | |
| parent | af8c34ce6ae32addda3788d54a7e340cad22516b (diff) | |
arm64: mm: always take dirty state from new pte in ptep_set_access_flags
Commit 66dbd6e61a52 ("arm64: Implement ptep_set_access_flags() for
hardware AF/DBM") ensured that pte flags are updated atomically in the
face of potential concurrent, hardware-assisted updates. However, Alex
reports that:
| This patch breaks swapping for me.
| In the broken case, you'll see either systemd cpu time spike (because
| it's stuck in a page fault loop) or the system hang (because the
| application owning the screen is stuck in a page fault loop).
It turns out that this is because the 'dirty' argument to
ptep_set_access_flags is always 0 for read faults, and so we can't use
it to set PTE_RDONLY. The failing sequence is:
1. We put down a PTE_WRITE | PTE_DIRTY | PTE_AF pte
2. Memory pressure -> pte_mkold(pte) -> clear PTE_AF
3. A read faults due to the missing access flag
4. ptep_set_access_flags is called with dirty = 0, due to the read fault
5. pte is then made PTE_WRITE | PTE_DIRTY | PTE_AF | PTE_RDONLY (!)
6. A write faults, but pte_write is true so we get stuck
The solution is to check the new page table entry (as would be done by
the generic, non-atomic definition of ptep_set_access_flags that just
calls set_pte_at) to establish the dirty state.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3+
Fixes: 66dbd6e61a52 ("arm64: Implement ptep_set_access_flags() for hardware AF/DBM")
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c index 5954881a35ac..ba3fc12bd272 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, * PTE_RDONLY is cleared by default in the asm below, so set it in * back if necessary (read-only or clean PTE). */ - if (!pte_write(entry) || !dirty) + if (!pte_write(entry) || !pte_sw_dirty(entry)) pte_val(entry) |= PTE_RDONLY; /* |