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| author | Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> | 2006-03-22 00:08:50 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-22 07:54:03 -0800 |
| commit | 8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380 (patch) | |
| tree | 4265e45c4a79d86a16cd5175a836e8c531be8117 /mm/mprotect.c | |
| parent | aed75ff3caafce404d9be7f0c088716375be5279 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380.tar.gz lwn-8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380.zip | |
[PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pages
2.6.16-rc3 uses hugetlb on-demand paging, but it doesn_t support hugetlb
mprotect.
From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Remove a test from the mprotect() path which checks that the mprotect()ed
range on a hugepage VMA is hugepage aligned (yes, really, the sense of
is_aligned_hugepage_range() is the opposite of what you'd guess :-/).
In fact, we don't need this test. If the given addresses match the
beginning/end of a hugepage VMA they must already be suitably aligned. If
they don't, then mprotect_fixup() will attempt to split the VMA. The very
first test in split_vma() will check for a badly aligned address on a
hugepage VMA and return -EINVAL if necessary.
From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
On i386 and x86-64, pte flag _PAGE_PSE collides with _PAGE_PROTNONE. The
identify of hugetlb pte is lost when changing page protection via mprotect.
A page fault occurs later will trigger a bug check in huge_pte_alloc().
The fix is to always make new pte a hugetlb pte and also to clean up
legacy code where _PAGE_PRESENT is forced on in the pre-faulting day.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mprotect.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mprotect.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c index 653b8571c1ed..4c14d4289b61 100644 --- a/mm/mprotect.c +++ b/mm/mprotect.c @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **pprev, * a MAP_NORESERVE private mapping to writable will now reserve. */ if (newflags & VM_WRITE) { - if (!(oldflags & (VM_ACCOUNT|VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED|VM_HUGETLB))) { + if (!(oldflags & (VM_ACCOUNT|VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED))) { charged = nrpages; if (security_vm_enough_memory(charged)) return -ENOMEM; @@ -166,7 +166,10 @@ success: */ vma->vm_flags = newflags; vma->vm_page_prot = newprot; - change_protection(vma, start, end, newprot); + if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) + hugetlb_change_protection(vma, start, end, newprot); + else + change_protection(vma, start, end, newprot); vm_stat_account(mm, oldflags, vma->vm_file, -nrpages); vm_stat_account(mm, newflags, vma->vm_file, nrpages); return 0; @@ -240,11 +243,6 @@ sys_mprotect(unsigned long start, size_t len, unsigned long prot) /* Here we know that vma->vm_start <= nstart < vma->vm_end. */ - if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) { - error = -EACCES; - goto out; - } - newflags = vm_flags | (vma->vm_flags & ~(VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_EXEC)); /* newflags >> 4 shift VM_MAY% in place of VM_% */ |