From ceb218359de22e70980801d4fa04fffbfc44adb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 19:11:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: mm: fix pmd_write CoW brokenness Commit 9c7e535fcc17 ("arm64: mm: Route pmd thp functions through pte equivalents") changed the pmd manipulator and accessor functions to convert the target pmd to a pte, process it with the pte functions, then convert it back. Along the way, we gained support for PTE_WRITE, however this is completely ignored by set_pmd_at, and so we fail to set the PMD_SECT_RDONLY for PMDs, resulting in all sorts of lovely failures (like CoW not working). Partially reverting the offending commit (by making use of PMD_SECT_RDONLY explicitly for pmd_{write,wrprotect,mkwrite} functions) leads to further issues because pmd_write can then return potentially incorrect values for page table entries marked as RDONLY, leading to BUG_ON(pmd_write(entry)) tripping under some THP workloads. This patch fixes the issue by routing set_pmd_at through set_pte_at, which correctly takes the PTE_WRITE flag into account. Given that THP mappings are always anonymous, the additional cache-flushing code in __sync_icache_dcache won't impose any significant overhead as the flush will be skipped. Cc: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Steve Capper Tested-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h index 90c811f05a2e..7b1c67a0b485 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ static inline pmd_t pte_pmd(pte_t pte) #define pmd_page(pmd) pfn_to_page(__phys_to_pfn(pmd_val(pmd) & PHYS_MASK)) -#define set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmdp, pmd) set_pmd(pmdp, pmd) +#define set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmdp, pmd) set_pte_at(mm, addr, (pte_t *)pmdp, pmd_pte(pmd)) static inline int has_transparent_hugepage(void) {