Revert "x86, mm: Make spurious_fault check explicitly check explicitly check the PRESENT bit"
I got a report for a minor regression introduced by commit 027ef6c8 ("mm: thp: fix pmd_present for split_huge_page and PROT_NONE with THP"). So the problem is, pageattr creates kernel pagetables (pte and pmds) that breaks pte_present/pmd_present and the patch above exposed this invariant breakage for pmd_present. The same problem already existed for the pte and pte_present and it was fixed by commit 660a293e ("x86, mm: Make spurious_fault check explicitly check the PRESENT bit") (if it wasn't for that commit, it wouldn't even be a regression). That fix avoids the pagefault to use pte_present. I could follow through by stopping using pmd_present/pmd_huge too. However I think it's more robust to fix pageattr and to clear the PSE/GLOBAL bitflags too in addition to the present bitflag. So the kernel page fault can keep using the regular pte_present/pmd_present/pmd_huge. The confusion arises because _PAGE_GLOBAL and _PAGE_PROTNONE are sharing the same bit, and in the pmd case we pretend _PAGE_PSE to be set only in present pmds (to facilitate split_huge_page final tlb flush). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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