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Revision 0106d456c4cb1770253fefc0ab23c9ca760b43f7 authored by Will Deacon on 07 June 2016, 16:55:15 UTC, committed by Will Deacon on 08 June 2016, 09:23:44 UTC
Commit 66dbd6e61a52 ("arm64: Implement ptep_set_access_flags() for
hardware AF/DBM") ensured that pte flags are updated atomically in the
face of potential concurrent, hardware-assisted updates. However, Alex
reports that:

 | This patch breaks swapping for me.
 | In the broken case, you'll see either systemd cpu time spike (because
 | it's stuck in a page fault loop) or the system hang (because the
 | application owning the screen is stuck in a page fault loop).

It turns out that this is because the 'dirty' argument to
ptep_set_access_flags is always 0 for read faults, and so we can't use
it to set PTE_RDONLY. The failing sequence is:

  1. We put down a PTE_WRITE | PTE_DIRTY | PTE_AF pte
  2. Memory pressure -> pte_mkold(pte) -> clear PTE_AF
  3. A read faults due to the missing access flag
  4. ptep_set_access_flags is called with dirty = 0, due to the read fault
  5. pte is then made PTE_WRITE | PTE_DIRTY | PTE_AF | PTE_RDONLY (!)
  6. A write faults, but pte_write is true so we get stuck

The solution is to check the new page table entry (as would be done by
the generic, non-atomic definition of ptep_set_access_flags that just
calls set_pte_at) to establish the dirty state.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3+
Fixes: 66dbd6e61a52 ("arm64: Implement ptep_set_access_flags() for hardware AF/DBM")
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Tip revision: 0106d456c4cb1770253fefc0ab23c9ca760b43f7 authored by Will Deacon on 07 June 2016, 16:55:15 UTC
arm64: mm: always take dirty state from new pte in ptep_set_access_flags
Tip revision: 0106d45
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