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Steve Capper
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On systems with hardware dirty bit management, the ltp madvise09 unit
test fails due to dirty bit information being lost and pages being
incorrectly freed.
This was bisected to:
arm64: Ignore hardware dirty bit updates in ptep_set_wrprotect()
Reverting this commit leads to a separate problem, that the unit test
retains pages that should have been dropped due to the function
madvise_free_pte_range(.) not cleaning pte's properly.
Currently pte_mkclean only clears the software dirty bit, thus the
following code sequence can appear:
pte = pte_mkclean(pte);
if (pte_dirty(pte))
// this condition can return true with HW DBM!
This patch also adjusts pte_mkclean to set PTE_RDONLY thus effectively
clearing both the SW and HW dirty information.
In order for this to function on systems without HW DBM, we need to
also adjust pte_mkdirty to remove the read only bit from writable pte's
to avoid infinite fault loops.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 64c26841b3 ("arm64: Ignore hardware dirty bit updates in ptep_set_wrprotect()")
Reported-by: Bhupinder Thakur <bhupinder.thakur@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Bhupinder Thakur <bhupinder.thakur@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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