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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/hugetlb.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 450493d2557..2ef66a2a148 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -2293,6 +2293,9 @@ retry_avoidcopy: outside_reserve = 1; page_cache_get(old_page); + + /* Drop page_table_lock as buddy allocator may be called */ + spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock); new_page = alloc_huge_page(vma, address, outside_reserve); if (IS_ERR(new_page)) { @@ -2310,19 +2313,25 @@ retry_avoidcopy: if (unmap_ref_private(mm, vma, old_page, address)) { BUG_ON(page_count(old_page) != 1); BUG_ON(huge_pte_none(pte)); + spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); goto retry_avoidcopy; } WARN_ON_ONCE(1); } + /* Caller expects lock to be held */ + spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); return -PTR_ERR(new_page); } - spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock); copy_huge_page(new_page, old_page, address, vma); __SetPageUptodate(new_page); - spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); + /* + * Retake the page_table_lock to check for racing updates + * before the page tables are altered + */ + spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address & huge_page_mask(h)); if (likely(pte_same(huge_ptep_get(ptep), pte))) { /* Break COW */ |