This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm: numa: clear numa hinting information on mprotect

to the 3.12-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:
     mm-numa-clear-numa-hinting-information-on-mprotect.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From [email protected]  Tue Jan  7 10:18:32 2014
From: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Date: Tue,  7 Jan 2014 14:00:44 +0000
Subject: mm: numa: clear numa hinting information on mprotect
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Mel Gorman 
<[email protected]>, [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

From: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>

commit 1667918b6483b12a6496bf54151b827b8235d7b1 upstream.

On a protection change it is no longer clear if the page should be still
accessible.  This patch clears the NUMA hinting fault bits on a
protection change.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c |    2 ++
 mm/mprotect.c    |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1483,6 +1483,8 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struc
                pmd_t entry;
                if (!prot_numa) {
                        entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
+                       if (pmd_numa(entry))
+                               entry = pmd_mknonnuma(entry);
                        entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot);
                        BUG_ON(pmd_write(entry));
                        set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry);
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ static unsigned long change_pte_range(st
 
                        if (!prot_numa) {
                                ptent = ptep_modify_prot_start(mm, addr, pte);
+                               if (pte_numa(ptent))
+                                       ptent = pte_mknonnuma(ptent);
                                ptent = pte_modify(ptent, newprot);
                                updated = true;
                        } else {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.12/mm-numa-clear-numa-hinting-information-on-mprotect.patch
queue-3.12/sched-numa-skip-inaccessible-vmas.patch
queue-3.12/mm-compaction-respect-ignore_skip_hint-in-update_pageblock_skip.patch
queue-3.12/mm-clear-pmd_numa-before-invalidating.patch
queue-3.12/mm-numa-ensure-anon_vma-is-locked-to-prevent-parallel-thp-splits.patch
queue-3.12/mm-numa-do-not-clear-pte-for-pte_numa-update.patch
queue-3.12/mm-hugetlb-check-for-pte-null-pointer-in-__page_check_address.patch
queue-3.12/mm-numa-serialise-parallel-get_user_page-against-thp-migration.patch
queue-3.12/mm-munlock-fix-deadlock-in-__munlock_pagevec.patch
queue-3.12/mm-numa-avoid-unnecessary-work-on-the-failure-path.patch
queue-3.12/mm-page_alloc-revert-numa-aspect-of-fair-allocation-policy.patch
queue-3.12/mm-mempolicy-correct-putback-method-for-isolate-pages-if-failed.patch
queue-3.12/mm-numa-do-not-clear-pmd-during-pte-update-scan.patch
queue-3.12/mm-numa-call-mmu-notifiers-on-thp-migration.patch
queue-3.12/mm-munlock-fix-a-bug-where-thp-tail-page-is-encountered.patch
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