powerpc/64s/radix: Fix MADV_[FREE|DONTNEED] TLB flush miss problem with THP
The patch 99baac21 ("mm: fix MADV_[FREE|DONTNEED] TLB flush miss problem") added a force flush mode to the mmu_gather flush, which unconditionally flushes the entire address range being invalidated (even if actual ptes only covered a smaller range), to solve a problem with concurrent threads invalidating the same PTEs causing them to miss TLBs that need flushing. This does not work with powerpc that invalidates mmu_gather batches according to page size. Have powerpc flush all possible page sizes in the range if it encounters this concurrency condition. Patch 4647706e ("mm: always flush VMA ranges affected by zap_page_range") does add a TLB flush for all page sizes on powerpc for the zap_page_range case, but that is to be removed and replaced with the mmu_gather flush to avoid redundant flushing. It is also thought to not cover other obscure race conditions: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/BD3A0EBE-ECF4-41D4-87FA-C755EA9AB6BD@gmail.com Hash does not have a problem because it invalidates TLBs inside the page table locks. Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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