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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-15 19:42:40 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-15 19:42:40 -0800
commit7c225c69f86c934e3be9be63ecde754e286838d7 (patch)
treeff2df419b0c4886b37407235f7d21215e4cf45e4 /mm/hugetlb.c
parent6363b3f3ac5be096d08c8c504128befa0c033529 (diff)
parent1b7176aea0a924ac59c6a283129d3e8eb00aa915 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - a few misc bits - ocfs2 updates - almost all of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (131 commits) memory hotplug: fix comments when adding section mm: make alloc_node_mem_map a void call if we don't have CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP mm: simplify nodemask printing mm,oom_reaper: remove pointless kthread_run() error check mm/page_ext.c: check if page_ext is not prepared writeback: remove unused function parameter mm: do not rely on preempt_count in print_vma_addr mm, sparse: do not swamp log with huge vmemmap allocation failures mm/hmm: remove redundant variable align_end mm/list_lru.c: mark expected switch fall-through mm/shmem.c: mark expected switch fall-through mm/page_alloc.c: broken deferred calculation mm: don't warn about allocations which stall for too long fs: fuse: account fuse_inode slab memory as reclaimable mm, page_alloc: fix potential false positive in __zone_watermark_ok mm: mlock: remove lru_add_drain_all() mm, sysctl: make NUMA stats configurable shmem: convert shmem_init_inodecache() to void Unify migrate_pages and move_pages access checks mm, pagevec: rename pagevec drained field ...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/hugetlb.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 2d2ff5e8bf2b..681b300185c0 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3256,9 +3256,14 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
set_huge_swap_pte_at(dst, addr, dst_pte, entry, sz);
} else {
if (cow) {
+ /*
+ * No need to notify as we are downgrading page
+ * table protection not changing it to point
+ * to a new page.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
+ */
huge_ptep_set_wrprotect(src, addr, src_pte);
- mmu_notifier_invalidate_range(src, mmun_start,
- mmun_end);
}
entry = huge_ptep_get(src_pte);
ptepage = pte_page(entry);
@@ -4318,7 +4323,12 @@ unsigned long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* and that page table be reused and filled with junk.
*/
flush_hugetlb_tlb_range(vma, start, end);
- mmu_notifier_invalidate_range(mm, start, end);
+ /*
+ * No need to call mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() we are downgrading
+ * page table protection not changing it to point to a new page.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
+ */
i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, start, end);