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[3.13.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "mm: numa: Do not mark PTEs pte_numa when splitting huge pages" has been added to staging queue

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Kamal Mostafa Oct. 9, 2014, 8:51 p.m. UTC 
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mm: numa: Do not mark PTEs pte_numa when splitting huge pages

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.9.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From a19028d337661d0bcde9933ed63e7647dd00323d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 19:47:42 +0100
Subject: mm: numa: Do not mark PTEs pte_numa when splitting huge pages

commit abc40bd2eeb77eb7c2effcaf63154aad929a1d5f upstream.

This patch reverts 1ba6e0b50b ("mm: numa: split_huge_page: transfer the
NUMA type from the pmd to the pte"). If a huge page is being split due
a protection change and the tail will be in a PROT_NONE vma then NUMA
hinting PTEs are temporarily created in the protected VMA.

 VM_RW|VM_PROTNONE
|-----------------|
      ^
      split here

In the specific case above, it should get fixed up by change_pte_range()
but there is a window of opportunity for weirdness to happen. Similarly,
if a huge page is shrunk and split during a protection update but before
pmd_numa is cleared then a pte_numa can be left behind.

Instead of adding complexity trying to deal with the case, this patch
will not mark PTEs NUMA when splitting a huge page. NUMA hinting faults
will not be triggered which is marginal in comparison to the complexity
in dealing with the corner cases during THP split.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index a2256e0..64a7f9c 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1823,6 +1823,11 @@  static int __split_huge_page_map(struct page *page,
 		for (i = 0; i < HPAGE_PMD_NR; i++, haddr += PAGE_SIZE) {
 			pte_t *pte, entry;
 			BUG_ON(PageCompound(page+i));
+			/*
+			 * Note that pmd_numa is not transferred deliberately
+			 * to avoid any possibility that pte_numa leaks to
+			 * a PROT_NONE VMA by accident.
+			 */
 			entry = mk_pte(page + i, vma->vm_page_prot);
 			entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
 			if (!pmd_write(*pmd))
@@ -1831,8 +1836,6 @@  static int __split_huge_page_map(struct page *page,
 				BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page) != 1);
 			if (!pmd_young(*pmd))
 				entry = pte_mkold(entry);
-			if (pmd_numa(*pmd))
-				entry = pte_mknuma(entry);
 			pte = pte_offset_map(&_pmd, haddr);
 			BUG_ON(!pte_none(*pte));
 			set_pte_at(mm, haddr, pte, entry);