[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>
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 68d82ad..fa83836 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
pmd_t *pmd, int write);
int is_aligned_hugepage_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len);
int pmd_huge(pmd_t pmd);
+void hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long address, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot);
#ifndef ARCH_HAS_HUGEPAGE_ONLY_RANGE
#define is_hugepage_only_range(mm, addr, len) 0
@@ -101,6 +103,8 @@
#define free_huge_page(p) ({ (void)(p); BUG(); })
#define hugetlb_fault(mm, vma, addr, write) ({ BUG(); 0; })
+#define hugetlb_change_protection(vma, address, end, newprot)
+
#ifndef HPAGE_MASK
#define HPAGE_MASK PAGE_MASK /* Keep the compiler happy */
#define HPAGE_SIZE PAGE_SIZE