linux-stable/mm
Nicholas Piggin 111fe7186b mm: generalise COW SMC TLB flushing race comment
I'm not sure if I'm completely missing something here, but AFAIKS the
reference to the mysterious "COW SMC race" confuses the issue.  The
original changelog and mailing list thread didn't help me either.

This SMC race is where the problem was detected, but isn't the general
problem bigger and more obvious: that the new PTE could be picked up at
any time by any TLB while entries for the old PTE exist in other TLBs
before the TLB flush takes effect?

The case where the iTLB and dTLB of a CPU are pointing at different pages
is an interesting one but follows from the general problem.

The other (minor) thing with the comment I think it makes it a bit clearer
to say what the old code was doing (i.e., it avoids the race as opposed to
what?).

References: 4ce072f1fa ("mm: fix a race condition under SMC + COW")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201215121119.351650-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-29 15:36:49 -08:00
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kasan kasan, mm: allow cache merging with no metadata 2020-12-22 12:55:09 -08:00
Kconfig mm/Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "whats" -> "what's" 2020-12-19 11:25:41 -08:00
Kconfig.debug mm, page_poison: remove CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO 2020-12-15 12:13:46 -08:00
Makefile mm: mmap_lock: add tracepoints around lock acquisition 2020-12-15 12:13:41 -08:00
backing-dev.c mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions 2020-12-15 12:13:47 -08:00
balloon_compaction.c
cleancache.c
cma.c mm: cma: improve pr_debug log in cma_release() 2020-12-15 12:13:46 -08:00
cma.h mm: cma: use CMA_MAX_NAME to define the length of cma name array 2020-09-01 09:19:43 +02:00
cma_debug.c debugfs: make sure we can remove u32_array files cleanly 2020-07-10 13:54:00 -07:00
compaction.c mm/lru: replace pgdat lru_lock with lruvec lock 2020-12-15 14:48:04 -08:00
debug.c mm: memcontrol: Use helpers to read page's memcg data 2020-12-02 18:28:05 -08:00
debug_page_ref.c
debug_vm_pgtable.c mm/debug_vm_pgtable: avoid doing memory allocation with pgtable_t mapped. 2020-10-16 11:11:14 -07:00
dmapool.c mm/dmapool.c: replace hard coded function name with __func__ 2020-10-13 18:38:32 -07:00
early_ioremap.c mm/early_ioremap.c: use %pa to print resource_size_t variables 2020-01-31 10:30:38 -08:00
fadvise.c mm, fadvise: improve the expensive remote LRU cache draining after FADV_DONTNEED 2020-10-13 18:38:29 -07:00
failslab.c
filemap.c mm/filemap: fix infinite loop in generic_file_buffered_read() 2020-12-18 13:37:04 -08:00
frame_vector.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
frontswap.c mm/frontswap: mark various intentional data races 2020-08-14 19:56:56 -07:00
gup.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-12-15 12:53:37 -08:00
gup_test.c mm/gup_test.c: mark gup_test_init as __init function 2020-12-15 12:13:38 -08:00
gup_test.h selftests/vm: gup_test: introduce the dump_pages() sub-test 2020-12-15 12:13:38 -08:00
highmem.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-12-15 12:53:37 -08:00
hmm.c mm: do page fault accounting in handle_mm_fault 2020-08-12 10:58:02 -07:00
huge_memory.c mm: fix some spelling mistakes in comments 2020-12-15 22:46:19 -08:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb: fix deadlock in hugetlb_cow error path 2020-12-29 15:36:49 -08:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c hugetlb_cgroup: fix offline of hugetlb cgroup with reservations 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm,hwpoison-inject: don't pin for hwpoison_filter 2020-10-16 11:11:16 -07:00
init-mm.c mm/gup: prevent gup_fast from racing with COW during fork 2020-12-15 12:13:39 -08:00
internal.h mm, page_alloc: disable pcplists during memory offline 2020-12-15 12:13:43 -08:00
interval_tree.c
ioremap.c mm: move p?d_alloc_track to separate header file 2020-08-07 11:33:26 -07:00
khugepaged.c mm: fix some spelling mistakes in comments 2020-12-15 22:46:19 -08:00
kmemleak.c mm/kmemleak: rely on rcu for task stack scanning 2020-10-13 18:38:27 -07:00
ksm.c mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage 2020-12-15 12:13:47 -08:00
list_lru.c mm: list_lru: set shrinker map bit when child nr_items is not zero 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
maccess.c uaccess: add force_uaccess_{begin,end} helpers 2020-08-12 10:57:59 -07:00
madvise.c mm,memory_failure: always pin the page in madvise_inject_error 2020-12-15 12:13:44 -08:00
mapping_dirty_helpers.c mm/mapping_dirty_helpers: enhance the kernel-doc markups 2020-12-15 12:13:41 -08:00
memblock.c memblock: debug enhancements 2020-12-16 14:44:53 -08:00
memcontrol.c mm/memcontrol:rewrite mem_cgroup_page_lruvec() 2020-12-19 11:18:37 -08:00
memfd.c
memory-failure.c mm,hwpoison: return -EBUSY when migration fails 2020-12-15 12:13:44 -08:00
memory.c mm: generalise COW SMC TLB flushing race comment 2020-12-29 15:36:49 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: memmap defer init doesn't work as expected 2020-12-29 15:36:49 -08:00
mempolicy.c mm: migrate: clean up migrate_prep{_local} 2020-12-15 12:13:45 -08:00
mempool.c kasan, mm: rename kasan_poison_kfree 2020-12-22 12:55:09 -08:00
memremap.c mm/mremap_pages: fix static key devmap_managed_key updates 2020-11-02 12:14:18 -08:00
memtest.c
migrate.c mm: fix some spelling mistakes in comments 2020-12-15 22:46:19 -08:00
mincore.c mm: factor find_get_incore_page out of mincore_page 2020-10-13 18:38:29 -07:00
mlock.c mm/lru: introduce relock_page_lruvec() 2020-12-15 14:48:04 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang 2020-12-15 12:13:47 -08:00
mmap.c UAPI Changes: 2020-12-18 12:38:28 -08:00
mmap_lock.c mm: mmap_lock: add tracepoints around lock acquisition 2020-12-15 12:13:41 -08:00
mmu_gather.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: track mmu notifiers in fs_reclaim_acquire/release 2020-12-15 12:13:41 -08:00
mmzone.c mm/lru: replace pgdat lru_lock with lruvec lock 2020-12-15 14:48:04 -08:00
mprotect.c mm: Add 'mprotect' hook to struct vm_operations_struct 2020-11-17 14:36:14 +01:00
mremap.c mm/mremap.c: fix extent calculation 2020-12-29 15:36:49 -08:00
msync.c mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
nommu.c mm: cleanup: remove unused tsk arg from __access_remote_vm 2020-12-15 12:13:40 -08:00
oom_kill.c mm/oom_kill: change comment and rename is_dump_unreclaim_slabs() 2020-12-15 12:13:45 -08:00
page-writeback.c mm: fix VM_BUG_ON(PageTail) and BUG_ON(PageWriteback) 2020-11-24 15:23:19 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: memmap defer init doesn't work as expected 2020-12-29 15:36:49 -08:00
page_counter.c mm/page_counter: use page_counter_read in page_counter_set_max 2020-12-15 12:13:40 -08:00
page_ext.c mm: fix some spelling mistakes in comments 2020-12-15 22:46:19 -08:00
page_idle.c mm: page_idle_get_page() does not need lru_lock 2020-12-15 14:48:03 -08:00
page_io.c mm: memcontrol: Use helpers to read page's memcg data 2020-12-02 18:28:05 -08:00
page_isolation.c mm/page_isolation: do not isolate the max order page 2020-12-15 12:13:45 -08:00
page_owner.c mm/page_owner: record timestamp and pid 2020-12-15 12:13:38 -08:00
page_poison.c kasan, mm: reset tags when accessing metadata 2020-12-22 12:55:08 -08:00
page_reporting.c mm: rename page_order() to buddy_order() 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
page_reporting.h mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm/page_vma_mapped.c: add colon to fix kernel-doc markups error for check_pte 2020-12-15 12:13:41 -08:00
pagewalk.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
percpu-internal.h mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups 2020-08-12 10:57:55 -07:00
percpu-km.c mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups 2020-08-12 10:57:55 -07:00
percpu-stats.c mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups 2020-08-12 10:57:55 -07:00
percpu-vm.c mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups 2020-08-12 10:57:55 -07:00
percpu.c percpu: convert flexible array initializers to use struct_size() 2020-10-30 23:02:28 +00:00
pgalloc-track.h mm: move p?d_alloc_track to separate header file 2020-08-07 11:33:26 -07:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
process_vm_access.c mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r 2020-12-15 12:13:46 -08:00
ptdump.c kasan, arm64: expand CONFIG_KASAN checks 2020-12-22 12:55:08 -08:00
readahead.c mm: use limited read-ahead to satisfy read 2020-10-17 13:49:08 -06:00
rmap.c mm/lru: revise the comments of lru_lock 2020-12-15 14:48:04 -08:00
rodata_test.c mm/rodata_test.c: fix missing function declaration 2020-08-21 09:52:53 -07:00
shmem.c mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at 2020-12-15 12:13:47 -08:00
shuffle.c mm: rename page_order() to buddy_order() 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
shuffle.h mm/shuffle: remove dynamic reconfiguration 2020-08-07 11:33:29 -07:00
slab.c mm: introduce debug_pagealloc_{map,unmap}_pages() helpers 2020-12-15 12:13:43 -08:00
slab.h Networking updates for 5.11 2020-12-15 13:22:29 -08:00
slab_common.c kasan, mm: allow cache merging with no metadata 2020-12-22 12:55:09 -08:00
slob.c mm: extract might_alloc() debug check 2020-12-15 12:13:41 -08:00
slub.c kasan, mm: reset tags when accessing metadata 2020-12-22 12:55:08 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm/sparse: only sub-section aligned range would be populated 2020-08-07 11:33:27 -07:00
sparse.c mm/memory_hotplug: guard more declarations by CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 2020-10-16 11:11:18 -07:00
swap.c mm/lru: introduce relock_page_lruvec() 2020-12-15 14:48:04 -08:00
swap_cgroup.c mm: memcontrol: make swap tracking an integral part of memory control 2020-06-03 20:09:48 -07:00
swap_slots.c mm/swap_slots.c: remove always zero and unused return value of enable_swap_slots_cache() 2020-10-13 18:38:30 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses 2020-12-15 12:13:47 -08:00
swapfile.c mm: fix a race on nr_swap_pages 2020-12-15 22:46:15 -08:00
truncate.c mm: fix kernel-doc markups 2020-12-15 12:13:47 -08:00
usercopy.c mm/usercopy.c: delete duplicated word 2020-08-12 10:57:58 -07:00
userfaultfd.c mm/vmscan: protect the workingset on anonymous LRU 2020-08-12 10:57:55 -07:00
util.c mm: introduce vma_set_file function v5 2020-11-19 10:36:36 +01:00
vmacache.c kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract 2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: fix kasan shadow poisoning size 2020-12-15 12:13:42 -08:00
vmpressure.c mm: vmpressure: use mem_cgroup_is_root API 2020-04-02 09:35:31 -07:00
vmscan.c mm/lru: revise the comments of lru_lock 2020-12-15 14:48:04 -08:00
vmstat.c arm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL 2020-12-15 12:13:42 -08:00
workingset.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-12-15 14:55:10 -08:00
z3fold.c z3fold: remove preempt disabled sections for RT 2020-12-15 12:13:45 -08:00
zbud.c mm/zbud: remove redundant initialization 2020-10-13 18:38:34 -07:00
zpool.c mm/zpool.c: delete duplicated word and fix grammar 2020-08-12 10:57:58 -07:00
zsmalloc.c mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage() 2020-12-15 12:13:46 -08:00
zswap.c mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration 2020-12-15 12:13:46 -08:00