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authorHans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>2008-02-18 18:10:47 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-02-29 18:55:39 +0100
commitcded932b75ab0a5f9181ee3da34a0a488d1a14fd (patch)
tree22be22c8397e3db14d464494c67f1387da122337 /include/asm-x86/pgtable_64.h
parent3d00daf44654dc75629caf42816ac4e293658724 (diff)
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x86: fix pmd_bad and pud_bad to support huge pages
I recently stumbled upon a problem in the support for huge pages. If a program using huge pages does not explicitly unmap them, they remain mapped (and therefore, are lost) after the program exits. I observed that the free huge page count in /proc/meminfo decreased when running my program, and it did not increase after the program exited. After running the program a few times, no more huge pages could be allocated. The reason for this seems to be that the x86 pmd_bad and pud_bad consider pmd/pud entries having the PSE bit set invalid. I think there is nothing wrong with this bit being set, it just indicates that the lowest level of translation has been reached. This bit has to be (and is) checked after the basic validity of the entry has been checked, like in this fragment from follow_page() in mm/memory.c: if (pmd_none(*pmd) || unlikely(pmd_bad(*pmd))) goto no_page_table; if (pmd_huge(*pmd)) { BUG_ON(flags & FOLL_GET); page = follow_huge_pmd(mm, address, pmd, flags & FOLL_WRITE); goto out; } Note that this code currently doesn't work as intended if the pmd refers to a huge page, the pmd_huge() check can not be reached if the page is huge. Extending pmd_bad() (and, for future 1GB page support, pud_bad()) to allow for the PSE bit being set fixes this. For similar reasons, allowing the NX bit being set is necessary, too. I have seen huge pages having the NX bit set in their pmd entry, which would cause the same problem. Signed-Off-By: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-x86/pgtable_64.h')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86/pgtable_64.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/pgtable_64.h b/include/asm-x86/pgtable_64.h
index 0a0b77bc736a..0a9258333cbd 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/pgtable_64.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/pgtable_64.h
@@ -153,12 +153,14 @@ static inline unsigned long pgd_bad(pgd_t pgd)
static inline unsigned long pud_bad(pud_t pud)
{
- return pud_val(pud) & ~(PTE_MASK | _KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_USER);
+ return pud_val(pud) &
+ ~(PTE_MASK | _KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_USER | _PAGE_PSE | _PAGE_NX);
}
static inline unsigned long pmd_bad(pmd_t pmd)
{
- return pmd_val(pmd) & ~(PTE_MASK | _KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_USER);
+ return pmd_val(pmd) &
+ ~(PTE_MASK | _KERNPG_TABLE | _PAGE_USER | _PAGE_PSE | _PAGE_NX);
}
#define pte_none(x) (!pte_val(x))
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