mm, dax: fix livelock, allow dax pmd mappings to become writeable
authorRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:56:02 +0000 (16:56 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:56:32 +0000 (17:56 -0800)
commit01871e59af5cc1cbf290ad6b4b95cd2f0cec9e8c
tree8c12bb4cd4be99b3e4f4d06e34bd9f1eb3c6aefa
parentb2e0d1625e193b40cbbd45b799f82d54d34e015c
mm, dax: fix livelock, allow dax pmd mappings to become writeable

Prior to this change DAX PMD mappings that were made read-only were
never able to be made writable again.  This is because the code in
insert_pfn_pmd() that calls pmd_mkdirty() and pmd_mkwrite() would skip
these calls if the PMD already existed in the page table.

Instead, if we are doing a write always mark the PMD entry as dirty and
writeable.  Without this code we can get into a condition where we mark
the PMD as read-only, and then on a subsequent write fault we get into
an infinite loop of PMD faults where we try unsuccessfully to make the
PMD writeable.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/huge_memory.c