Commit ceb21835 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon

arm64: mm: fix pmd_write CoW brokenness

Commit 9c7e535f ("arm64: mm: Route pmd thp functions through pte
equivalents") changed the pmd manipulator and accessor functions to
convert the target pmd to a pte, process it with the pte functions, then
convert it back. Along the way, we gained support for PTE_WRITE, however
this is completely ignored by set_pmd_at, and so we fail to set the
PMD_SECT_RDONLY for PMDs, resulting in all sorts of lovely failures (like
CoW not working).

Partially reverting the offending commit (by making use of
PMD_SECT_RDONLY explicitly for pmd_{write,wrprotect,mkwrite} functions)
leads to further issues because pmd_write can then return potentially
incorrect values for page table entries marked as RDONLY, leading to
BUG_ON(pmd_write(entry)) tripping under some THP workloads.

This patch fixes the issue by routing set_pmd_at through set_pte_at,
which correctly takes the PTE_WRITE flag into account. Given that
THP mappings are always anonymous, the additional cache-flushing code
in __sync_icache_dcache won't impose any significant overhead as the
flush will be skipped.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSteve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
parent c7208164
......@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ static inline pmd_t pte_pmd(pte_t pte)
#define pmd_page(pmd) pfn_to_page(__phys_to_pfn(pmd_val(pmd) & PHYS_MASK))
#define set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmdp, pmd) set_pmd(pmdp, pmd)
#define set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmdp, pmd) set_pte_at(mm, addr, (pte_t *)pmdp, pmd_pte(pmd))
static inline int has_transparent_hugepage(void)
{
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