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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2016-05-12 18:29:15 +0200
committerRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>2016-05-19 15:13:17 -0600
commit348e967ab07c96a9e7a6a194812254a8df2045c0 (patch)
tree2f593288ff249a8b496a5b04c0bdfcc61ab71adc /fs/dax.c
parentb9953536c95fd0013695542bfa4694c7468673aa (diff)
downloadlinux-348e967ab07c96a9e7a6a194812254a8df2045c0.tar.gz
dax: Make huge page handling depend of CONFIG_BROKEN
Currently the handling of huge pages for DAX is racy. For example the
following can happen:

CPU0 (THP write fault)			CPU1 (normal read fault)

__dax_pmd_fault()			__dax_fault()
  get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0) -> not mapped
					get_block(inode, block, &bh, 0)
					  -> not mapped
  if (!buffer_mapped(&bh) && write)
    get_block(inode, block, &bh, 1) -> allocates blocks
  truncate_pagecache_range(inode, lstart, lend);
					dax_load_hole();

This results in data corruption since process on CPU1 won't see changes
into the file done by CPU0.

The race can happen even if two normal faults race however with THP the
situation is even worse because the two faults don't operate on the same
entries in the radix tree and we want to use these entries for
serialization. So make THP support in DAX code depend on CONFIG_BROKEN
for now.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dax.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dax.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index bdad05213e4b..0433a2b5e484 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ int dax_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_fault);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+#if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
 /*
  * The 'colour' (ie low bits) within a PMD of a page offset.  This comes up
  * more often than one might expect in the below function.