summary refs log tree commit diff
path: root/mm/mmu_notifier.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>2017-08-31 17:17:38 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-08-31 16:13:00 -0700
commit5f32b265400de723ab0db23101a75ac073bdd980 (patch)
treeb54683262cf671ce4882729ce2e9f1e25a5f16fe /mm/mmu_notifier.c
parentfb1522e099f0c69f36655af233a64e3f55941f5b (diff)
downloadlinux-5f32b265400de723ab0db23101a75ac073bdd980.tar.gz
mm/mmu_notifier: kill invalidate_page
The invalidate_page callback suffered from two pitfalls.  First it used
to happen after the page table lock was release and thus a new page
might have setup before the call to invalidate_page() happened.

This is in a weird way fixed by commit c7ab0d2fdc84 ("mm: convert
try_to_unmap_one() to use page_vma_mapped_walk()") that moved the
callback under the page table lock but this also broke several existing
users of the mmu_notifier API that assumed they could sleep inside this
callback.

The second pitfall was invalidate_page() being the only callback not
taking a range of address in respect to invalidation but was giving an
address and a page.  Lots of the callback implementers assumed this
could never be THP and thus failed to invalidate the appropriate range
for THP.

By killing this callback we unify the mmu_notifier callback API to
always take a virtual address range as input.

Finally this also simplifies the end user life as there is now two clear
choices:
  - invalidate_range_start()/end() callback (which allow you to sleep)
  - invalidate_range() where you can not sleep but happen right after
    page table update under page table lock

Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Bernhard Held <berny156@gmx.de>
Cc: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: axie <axie@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mmu_notifier.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mmu_notifier.c14
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmu_notifier.c b/mm/mmu_notifier.c
index 54ca54562928..314285284e6e 100644
--- a/mm/mmu_notifier.c
+++ b/mm/mmu_notifier.c
@@ -174,20 +174,6 @@ void __mmu_notifier_change_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
 	srcu_read_unlock(&srcu, id);
 }
 
-void __mmu_notifier_invalidate_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
-					  unsigned long address)
-{
-	struct mmu_notifier *mn;
-	int id;
-
-	id = srcu_read_lock(&srcu);
-	hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(mn, &mm->mmu_notifier_mm->list, hlist) {
-		if (mn->ops->invalidate_page)
-			mn->ops->invalidate_page(mn, mm, address);
-	}
-	srcu_read_unlock(&srcu, id);
-}
-
 void __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(struct mm_struct *mm,
 				  unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {