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Revision 5f32b265400de723ab0db23101a75ac073bdd980 authored by Jérôme Glisse on 31 August 2017, 21:17:38 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 31 August 2017, 23:13:00 UTC
The invalidate_page callback suffered from two pitfalls.  First it used
to happen after the page table lock was release and thus a new page
might have setup before the call to invalidate_page() happened.

This is in a weird way fixed by commit c7ab0d2fdc84 ("mm: convert
try_to_unmap_one() to use page_vma_mapped_walk()") that moved the
callback under the page table lock but this also broke several existing
users of the mmu_notifier API that assumed they could sleep inside this
callback.

The second pitfall was invalidate_page() being the only callback not
taking a range of address in respect to invalidation but was giving an
address and a page.  Lots of the callback implementers assumed this
could never be THP and thus failed to invalidate the appropriate range
for THP.

By killing this callback we unify the mmu_notifier callback API to
always take a virtual address range as input.

Finally this also simplifies the end user life as there is now two clear
choices:
  - invalidate_range_start()/end() callback (which allow you to sleep)
  - invalidate_range() where you can not sleep but happen right after
    page table update under page table lock

Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Bernhard Held <berny156@gmx.de>
Cc: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: axie <axie@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: 5f32b265400de723ab0db23101a75ac073bdd980 authored by Jérôme Glisse on 31 August 2017, 21:17:38 UTC
mm/mmu_notifier: kill invalidate_page
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