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[3.8.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "mm: numa: clear numa hinting information on mprotect" has been added to staging queue

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Kamal Mostafa Jan. 9, 2014, 11:18 p.m. UTC 
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mm: numa: clear numa hinting information on mprotect

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.16.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From d91895e139d243a4833630c3b581e504b5a52e35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:08:41 -0800
Subject: mm: numa: clear numa hinting information on mprotect

commit 1667918b6483b12a6496bf54151b827b8235d7b1 upstream.

On a protection change it is no longer clear if the page should be still
accessible.  This patch clears the NUMA hinting fault bits on a
protection change.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 2 ++
 mm/mprotect.c    | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

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1.8.3.2
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diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 594b3c1..a67726d 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1504,6 +1504,8 @@  int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 		ret = 1;
 		if (!prot_numa) {
 			entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
+			if (pmd_numa(entry))
+				entry = pmd_mknonnuma(entry);
 			entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot);
 			ret = HPAGE_PMD_NR;
 			BUG_ON(pmd_write(entry));
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index 79abf13..c477655 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@  static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,

 			if (!prot_numa) {
 				ptent = ptep_modify_prot_start(mm, addr, pte);
+				if (pte_numa(ptent))
+					ptent = pte_mknonnuma(ptent);
 				ptent = pte_modify(ptent, newprot);
 				updated = true;
 			} else {