From a9b802500ebbff1544519a2969323b719dac21f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nadav Amit Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 15:24:02 -0700 Subject: Revert "mm: numa: defer TLB flush for THP migration as long as possible" While deferring TLB flushes is a good practice, the reverted patch caused pending TLB flushes to be checked while the page-table lock is not taken. As a result, in architectures with weak memory model (PPC), Linux may miss a memory-barrier, miss the fact TLB flushes are pending, and cause (in theory) a memory corruption. Since the alternative of using smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() was considered a bit open-coded, and the performance impact is expected to be small, the previous patch is reverted. This reverts b0943d61b8fa ("mm: numa: defer TLB flush for THP migration as long as possible"). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802000818.4760-4-namit@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit Suggested-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Nadav Amit Cc: Russell King Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/migrate.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/migrate.c') diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index 627671551873..d68a41da6abb 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -1937,12 +1937,6 @@ int migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, put_page(new_page); goto out_fail; } - /* - * We are not sure a pending tlb flush here is for a huge page - * mapping or not. Hence use the tlb range variant - */ - if (mm_tlb_flush_pending(mm)) - flush_tlb_range(vma, mmun_start, mmun_end); /* Prepare a page as a migration target */ __SetPageLocked(new_page); -- cgit v1.2.3