This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sparc: huge_ptep_set_* functions need to call set_huge_pte_at()
to the 3.7-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sparc-huge_ptep_set_-functions-need-to-call-set_huge_pte_at.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From 42a4fb9082d9fdc88c353fff81e7e5ee8a17dbde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleik...@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:52:47 -0600 Subject: sparc: huge_ptep_set_* functions need to call set_huge_pte_at() From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleik...@oracle.com> [ Upstream commit 6cb9c3697585c47977c42c5cc1b9fc49247ac530 ] Modifying the huge pte's requires that all the underlying pte's be modified. Version 2: added missing flush_tlb_page() Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleik...@oracle.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net> Cc: sparcli...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- arch/sparc/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/hugetlb.h +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/hugetlb.h @@ -61,14 +61,20 @@ static inline pte_t huge_pte_wrprotect(p static inline void huge_ptep_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep) { - ptep_set_wrprotect(mm, addr, ptep); + pte_t old_pte = *ptep; + set_huge_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, pte_wrprotect(old_pte)); } static inline int huge_ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte, int dirty) { - return ptep_set_access_flags(vma, addr, ptep, pte, dirty); + int changed = !pte_same(*ptep, pte); + if (changed) { + set_huge_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep, pte); + flush_tlb_page(vma, addr); + } + return changed; } static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get(pte_t *ptep) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dave.kleik...@oracle.com are queue-3.7/sparc-huge_ptep_set_-functions-need-to-call-set_huge_pte_at.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html