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mm: replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE or barriers 

ACCESS_ONCE does not work reliably on non-scalar types. For
example gcc 4.6 and 4.7 might remove the volatile tag for such
accesses during the SRA (scalar replacement of aggregates) step
(https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145)

Let's change the code to access the page table elements with
READ_ONCE that does implicit scalar accesses for the gup code.

mm_find_pmd is tricky, because m68k and sparc(32bit) define pmd_t
as array of longs. This code requires just that the pmd_present
and pmd_trans_huge check are done on the same value, so a barrier
is sufficent.

A similar case is in handle_pte_fault. On ppc44x the word size is
32 bit, but a pte is 64 bit. A barrier is ok as well.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Christian Borntraeger 2014-12-07 21:41:33 +01:00
parent 230fa253df
commit e37c698270
3 changed files with 13 additions and 3 deletions
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mm/gup.c
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@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ static int gup_pud_range(pgd_t *pgdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
pudp = pud_offset(pgdp, addr);
do {
pud_t pud = ACCESS_ONCE(*pudp);
pud_t pud = READ_ONCE(*pudp);
next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
if (pud_none(pud))

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mm/memory.c
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@ -3202,7 +3202,16 @@ static int handle_pte_fault(struct mm_struct *mm,
pte_t entry;
spinlock_t *ptl;
entry = ACCESS_ONCE(*pte);
/*
* some architectures can have larger ptes than wordsize,
* e.g.ppc44x-defconfig has CONFIG_PTE_64BIT=y and CONFIG_32BIT=y,
* so READ_ONCE or ACCESS_ONCE cannot guarantee atomic accesses.
* The code below just needs a consistent view for the ifs and
* we later double check anyway with the ptl lock held. So here
* a barrier will do.
*/
entry = *pte;
barrier();
if (!pte_present(entry)) {
if (pte_none(entry)) {
if (vma->vm_ops) {

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mm/rmap.c
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@ -581,7 +581,8 @@ pmd_t *mm_find_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address)
* without holding anon_vma lock for write. So when looking for a
* genuine pmde (in which to find pte), test present and !THP together.
*/
pmde = ACCESS_ONCE(*pmd);
pmde = *pmd;
barrier();
if (!pmd_present(pmde) || pmd_trans_huge(pmde))
pmd = NULL;
out: