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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2016-05-12 18:29:15 +0200
committerRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>2016-05-19 15:13:17 -0600
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dax: Make huge page handling depend of CONFIG_BROKEN
Currently the handling of huge pages for DAX is racy. For example the following can happen: CPU0 (THP write fault) CPU1 (normal read fault) __dax_pmd_fault() __dax_fault() get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0) -> not mapped get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0) -> not mapped if (!buffer_mapped(&bh) && write) get_block(inode, block, &bh, 1) -> allocates blocks truncate_pagecache_range(inode, lstart, lend); dax_load_hole(); This results in data corruption since process on CPU1 won't see changes into the file done by CPU0. The race can happen even if two normal faults race however with THP the situation is even worse because the two faults don't operate on the same entries in the radix tree and we want to use these entries for serialization. So make THP support in DAX code depend on CONFIG_BROKEN for now. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
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diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 6725f59c18e6..b8fcb416be72 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ config FS_DAX_PMD
depends on FS_DAX
depends on ZONE_DEVICE
depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+ depends on BROKEN
endif # BLOCK