On 2 Sep 2020, at 14:48, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 02:45:37PM -0400, Zi Yan wrote: > >>> Surprised this doesn't touch mm/pagewalk.c ? >> >> 1GB PUD page support is present for DAX purpose, so the code is there >> in mm/pagewalk.c already. I only needed to supply ops->pud_entry when using >> the functions in mm/pagewalk.c. :) > > Yes, but doesn't this change what is possible under the mmap_sem > without the page table locks? > > ie I would expect some thing like pmd_trans_unstable() to be required > as well for lockless walkers. (and I don't think the pmd code is 100% > right either) >
Right. I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out.
The code like this, right?
diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
index e81640d9f177..4fe6ce4a92eb 100644
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -152,10 +152,11 @@ static int walk_pud_range(p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long addr,
unsigned long end,
!(ops->pmd_entry || ops->pte_entry))
continue;
- if (walk->vma)
+ if (walk->vma) {
split_huge_pud(walk->vma, pud, addr);
- if (pud_none(*pud))
- goto again;
+ if (pud_trans_unstable(pud))
+ goto again;
+ }
err = walk_pmd_range(pud, addr, next, walk);
if (err)
—
Best Regards,
Yan Zi
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