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Commit 624a2c94 authored by Peter Xu's avatar Peter Xu Committed by Andrew Morton
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Partly revert "mm/thp: carry over dirty bit when thp splits on pmd"

Anatoly Pugachev reported sparc64 breakage on the patch:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221021160603.GA23307@u164.east.ru

The sparc64 impl of pte_mkdirty() is definitely slightly special in that
it leverages a code patching mechanism for sun4u/sun4v on relevant pgtable
entry operations.

Before having a clue of why the sparc64 is special and caused the patch to
SIGSEGV the processes, revert the patch for now.  The swap path of dirty
bit inheritage is kept because that's using the swap shared code so we
assume it'll not be affected.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y1Wbi4yyVvDtg4zN@x1n


Fixes: 0ccf7f16 ("mm/thp: carry over dirty bit when thp splits on pmd")
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarAnatoly Pugachev <matorola@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAnatoly Pugachev <matorola@gmail.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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......@@ -2206,9 +2206,12 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
if (!young)
entry = pte_mkold(entry);
/* NOTE: this may set soft-dirty too on some archs */
if (dirty)
entry = pte_mkdirty(entry);
/*
* NOTE: we don't do pte_mkdirty when dirty==true
* because it breaks sparc64 which can sigsegv
* random process. Need to revisit when we figure
* out what is special with sparc64.
*/
if (soft_dirty)
entry = pte_mksoft_dirty(entry);
if (uffd_wp)
......
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