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x86, mm, hugetlb: Add missing TLB page invalidation for hugetlb_cow()

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The invalidation is required in order to maintain proper semantics
under CoW conditions. In scenarios where a process clones several
threads, a thread operating on a core whose DTLB entry for a
particular hugepage has not been invalidated, will be reading from
the hugepage that belongs to the forked child process, even after
hugetlb_cow().

The thread will not see the updated page as long as the stale DTLB
entry remains cached, the thread attempts to write into the page,
the child process exits, or the thread gets migrated to a different
processor.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos <anthony.iliopoulos@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140514092948.GA17391@server-36.huawei.corp
Suggested-by: Shay Goikhman <shay.goikhman@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v2.6.16+ (!)
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Anthony Iliopoulos 2014-05-14 11:29:48 +02:00 committed by H. Peter Anvin
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@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
static inline void huge_ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
{
ptep_clear_flush(vma, addr, ptep);
}
static inline int huge_pte_none(pte_t pte)