[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "powerpc/thp: Use ACCESS_ONCE when loading pmdp" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    powerpc/thp: Use ACCESS_ONCE when loading pmdp

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.7.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From a15743e2b65fc348730dfbe0edaf20969b0898ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:32:02 +0530
Subject: powerpc/thp: Use ACCESS_ONCE when loading pmdp

commit 7e467245bf5226db34c4b12d3cbacfa2f7a15a8b upstream.

We would get wrong results in compiler recomputed old_pmd. Avoid
that by using ACCESS_ONCE

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c
index e0da847..7d86c86 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c
@@ -84,7 +84,9 @@ int __hash_page_thp(unsigned long ea, unsigned long access, unsigned long vsid,
 	 * atomically mark the linux large page PMD busy and dirty
 	 */
 	do {
-		old_pmd = pmd_val(*pmdp);
+		pmd_t pmd = ACCESS_ONCE(*pmdp);
+
+		old_pmd = pmd_val(pmd);
 		/* If PMD busy, retry the access */
 		if (unlikely(old_pmd & _PAGE_BUSY))
 			return 0;
--
1.9.1