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    powerpc: get_hugepte() don't put_page() the wrong page · 405e44f2
    Andrea Arcangeli authored
    "page" may have changed to point to the next hugepage after the loop
    completed, The references have been taken on the head page, so the
    put_page must happen there too.
    
    This is a longstanding issue pre-thp inclusion.
    
    It's totally unclear how these page_cache_add_speculative and
    pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep) checks are necessary across all the
    powerpc gup_fast code, when x86 doesn't need any of that: there's no way
    the page can be freed with irq disabled so we're guaranteed the
    atomic_inc will happen on a page with page_count > 0 (so not needing the
    speculative check).
    
    The pte check is also meaningless on x86: no need to rollback on x86 if
    the pte changed, because the pte can still change a CPU tick after the
    check succeeded and it won't be rolled back in that case.  The important
    thing is we got a reference on a valid page that was mapped there a CPU
    tick ago.  So not knowing the soft tlb refill code of ppc64 in great
    detail I'm not removing the "speculative" page_count increase and the
    pte checks across all the code, but unless there's a strong reason for
    it they should be later cleaned up too.
    
    If a pte can change from huge to non-huge (like it could happen with
    THP) passing a pte_t *ptep to gup_hugepte() would also require to repeat
    the is_hugepd in gup_hugepte(), but that shouldn't happen with hugetlbfs
    only so I'm not altering that.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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