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dax: ensure that zero pages are removed from other processes 

If the first access to a huge page was a store, there would be no existing
zero pmd in this process's page tables.  There could be a zero pmd in
another process's page tables, if it had done a load.  We can detect this
case by noticing that the buffer_head returned from the filesystem is New,
and ensure that other processes mapping this huge page have their page
tables flushed.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthew Wilcox 2015-09-08 14:59:37 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent d295e3415a
commit 73a6ec47f6
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@ -568,7 +568,11 @@ int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
if ((pgoff | PG_PMD_COLOUR) >= size)
goto fallback;
if (is_huge_zero_pmd(*pmd))
/*
* If we allocated new storage, make sure no process has any
* zero pages covering this hole
*/
if (buffer_new(&bh))
unmap_mapping_range(mapping, pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT, PMD_SIZE, 0);
if (!write && !buffer_mapped(&bh) && buffer_uptodate(&bh)) {