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dax: Make huge page handling depend of CONFIG_BROKEN

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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>
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Jan Kara 2016-05-12 18:29:15 +02:00 committed by Ross Zwisler
parent b9953536c9
commit 348e967ab0
3 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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fs/Kconfig
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@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ config FS_DAX_PMD
depends on FS_DAX
depends on ZONE_DEVICE
depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
depends on BROKEN
endif # BLOCK

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fs/dax.c
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@ -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.

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include/linux/dax.h
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@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static inline int __dax_zero_page_range(struct block_device *bdev,
}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
#if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
int dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr, pmd_t *,
unsigned int flags, get_block_t);
int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr, pmd_t *,