[Devel] [PATCH rh7 4/7] asm-generic/tlb: avoid potential double flush

Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin at virtuozzo.com
Mon Jul 13 16:09:35 MSK 2020


From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>

Aneesh reported that:

	tlb_flush_mmu()
	  tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly()
	    tlb_flush()			<-- #1
	  tlb_flush_mmu_free()
	    tlb_table_flush()
	      tlb_table_invalidate()
		tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly()
		  tlb_flush()		<-- #2

does two TLBIs when tlb->fullmm, because __tlb_reset_range() will not
clear tlb->end in that case.

Observe that any caller to __tlb_adjust_range() also sets at least one of
the tlb->freed_tables || tlb->cleared_p* bits, and those are
unconditionally cleared by __tlb_reset_range().

Change the condition for actually issuing TLBI to having one of those bits
set, as opposed to having tlb->end != 0.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200116064531.483522-4-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz at infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>

https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-101300
(cherry picked from commit 0758cd8304942292e95a0f750c374533db378b32)
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at virtuozzo.com>
---
 mm/memory.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index f4874a2b8be8..4370dd400822 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -252,8 +252,14 @@ void arch_tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm,
 
 static void tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
 {
-	if (!tlb->end)
+	/*
+	 * Anything calling __tlb_adjust_range() also sets at least one of
+	 * these bits.
+	 */
+	if (!(tlb->freed_tables || tlb->cleared_ptes || tlb->cleared_pmds ||
+	    tlb->cleared_puds || tlb->cleared_p4ds))
 		return;
+
 	tlb_flush(tlb);
 	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range(tlb->mm, tlb->start, tlb->end);
 	__tlb_reset_range(tlb);
-- 
2.26.2



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