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This is only relevant to the two archs that support PUD dax, aka, x86_64 and ppc64. PUD THPs do not yet exist elsewhere, and hugetlb PUDs do not count in this case. DAX have had PUD mappings for years, but change protection path never worked. When the path is triggered in any form (a simple test program would be: call mprotect() on a 1G dev_dax mapping), the kernel will report "bad pud". This patch should fix that. The new change_huge_pud() tries to keep everything simple. For example, it doesn't optimize write bit as that will need even more PUD helpers. It's not too bad anyway to have one more write fault in the worst case once for 1G range; may be a bigger thing for each PAGE_SIZE, though. Neither does it support userfault-wp bits, as there isn't such PUD mappings that is supported; file mappings always need a split there. The same to TLB shootdown: the pmd path (which was for x86 only) has the trick of using _ad() version of pmdp_invalidate*() which can avoid one redundant TLB, but let's also leave that for later. Again, the larger the mapping, the smaller of such effect. There's some difference on handling "retry" for change_huge_pud() (where it can return 0): it isn't like change_huge_pmd(), as the pmd version is safe with all conditions handled in change_pte_range() later, thanks to Hugh's new pte_offset_map_lock(). In short, change_pte_range() is simply smarter. For that, change_pud_range() will need proper retry if it races with something else when a huge PUD changed from under us. The last thing to mention is currently the PUD path ignores the huge pte numa counter (NUMA_HUGE_PTE_UPDATES), not only because DAX is not applicable to NUMA, but also that it's ambiguous on its own to decide how to account pud in this case. In one earlier version of this patchset I proposed to remove the counter as it doesn't even look right to do the accounting as of now [1], but then a further discussion suggests we can leave that for later, as that doesn't block this series if we choose to ignore that counter. That's what this patch does, by ignoring it. When at it, touch up the comment in pgtable_split_needed() to make it generic to either pmd or pud file THPs. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240715192142.3241557-3-peterx@redhat.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/added2d0-b8be-4108-82ca-1367a388d0b1@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240812181225.1360970-8-peterx@redhat.com Fixes: a00cc7d9dd93 ("mm, x86: add support for PUD-sized transparent hugepages") Fixes: 27af67f35631 ("powerpc/book3s64/mm: enable transparent pud hugepage") Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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