Patch "mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
mm-thp-do-not-make-page-table-dirty-unconditionally-in-touch_pd.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 06:21:25 +0300
Subject: mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()

From: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>

commit a8f97366452ed491d13cf1e44241bc0b5740b1f0 upstream.

Currently, we unconditionally make page table dirty in touch_pmd(). It may result in false-positive can_follow_write_pmd().

We may avoid the situation, if we would only make the page table entry dirty if caller asks for write access -- FOLL_WRITE.

The patch also changes touch_pud() in the same way.

[Salvatore Bonaccorso: backport for 3.16:
- Adjust context
- Drop specific part for PUD-sized transparent hugepages. Support for PUD-sized transparent hugepages was added in v4.11-rc1
]

---
 mm/huge_memory.c |   14 ++++----------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

@@ -1240,17 +1240,11 @@ struct page *follow_trans_huge_pmd(struc
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page);
 	if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH) {
 		pmd_t _pmd;
-		/*
-		 * We should set the dirty bit only for FOLL_WRITE but
-		 * for now the dirty bit in the pmd is meaningless.
-		 * And if the dirty bit will become meaningful and
-		 * we'll only set it with FOLL_WRITE, an atomic
-		 * set_bit will be required on the pmd to set the
-		 * young bit, instead of the current set_pmd_at.
-		 */
-		_pmd = pmd_mkyoung(pmd_mkdirty(*pmd));
+		_pmd = pmd_mkyoung(*pmd);
+		if (flags & FOLL_WRITE)
+			_pmd = pmd_mkdirty(_pmd);
 		if (pmdp_set_access_flags(vma, addr & HPAGE_PMD_MASK,
-					  pmd, _pmd,  1))
+					  pmd, _pmd, flags & FOLL_WRITE))
 			update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
 	}
 	if ((flags & FOLL_MLOCK) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)) {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.18/mm-thp-do-not-make-page-table-dirty-unconditionally-in-touch_pd.patch queue-3.18/mm-madvise.c-fix-madvise-infinite-loop-under-special-circumstances.patch