[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "x86, mm, hugetlb: Add missing TLB page invalidation for hugetlb_cow()" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

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

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.25.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 48a2b0d71f065c0ada4a69a9e716471b2961ec9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Iliopoulos <anthony.iliopoulos at huawei.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 11:29:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 20/66] x86, mm, hugetlb: Add missing TLB page invalidation for
 hugetlb_cow()

commit 9844f5462392b53824e8b86726e7c33b5ecbb676 upstream.

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 at huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140514092948.GA17391@server-36.huawei.corp
Suggested-by: Shay Goikhman <shay.goikhman at huawei.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h
index bdd35db..78ba03b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ 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)
--
1.9.1