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authorSteve Capper2017-12-01 17:22:14 +0000
committerWill Deacon2017-12-11 16:13:10 +0000
commit8781bcbc5e69d7da69e84c7044ca0284848d5d01 (patch)
treec7798f78abc583a818e774f371d3e34fba49129c /arch/um
parentf24e5834a2c3f6c5f814a417f858226f0a010ade (diff)
arm64: mm: Fix pte_mkclean, pte_mkdirty semantics
On systems with hardware dirty bit management, the ltp madvise09 unit test fails due to dirty bit information being lost and pages being incorrectly freed. This was bisected to: arm64: Ignore hardware dirty bit updates in ptep_set_wrprotect() Reverting this commit leads to a separate problem, that the unit test retains pages that should have been dropped due to the function madvise_free_pte_range(.) not cleaning pte's properly. Currently pte_mkclean only clears the software dirty bit, thus the following code sequence can appear: pte = pte_mkclean(pte); if (pte_dirty(pte)) // this condition can return true with HW DBM! This patch also adjusts pte_mkclean to set PTE_RDONLY thus effectively clearing both the SW and HW dirty information. In order for this to function on systems without HW DBM, we need to also adjust pte_mkdirty to remove the read only bit from writable pte's to avoid infinite fault loops. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Fixes: 64c26841b349 ("arm64: Ignore hardware dirty bit updates in ptep_set_wrprotect()") Reported-by: Bhupinder Thakur <bhupinder.thakur@linaro.org> Tested-by: Bhupinder Thakur <bhupinder.thakur@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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