linux/arch/s390
Will Deacon 5d3a551c28 mm: hugetlb: add arch hook for clearing page flags before entering pool
The core page allocator ensures that page flags are zeroed when freeing
pages via free_pages_check.  A number of architectures (ARM, PPC, MIPS)
rely on this property to treat new pages as dirty with respect to the data
cache and perform the appropriate flushing before mapping the pages into
userspace.

This can lead to cache synchronisation problems when using hugepages,
since the allocator keeps its own pool of pages above the usual page
allocator and does not reset the page flags when freeing a page into the
pool.

This patch adds a new architecture hook, arch_clear_hugepage_flags, so
that architectures which rely on the page flags being in a particular
state for fresh allocations can adjust the flags accordingly when a page
is freed into the pool.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-09 16:22:24 +09:00
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appldata s390/vtimer: rework virtual timer interface 2012-07-20 11:15:08 +02:00
boot s390/ipl,decrompressor: disable branch profiling 2012-09-26 15:45:21 +02:00
crypto crypto: arch/s390 - cleanup - remove unneeded cra_list initialization 2012-08-01 17:47:29 +08:00
hypfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
include mm: hugetlb: add arch hook for clearing page flags before entering pool 2012-10-09 16:22:24 +09:00
kernel compat: move compat_siginfo_t definition to asm/compat.h 2012-10-06 03:05:16 +09:00
kvm KVM updates for the 3.7 merge window 2012-10-04 09:30:33 -07:00
lib s390/string: provide asm lib functions for memcpy and memcmp 2012-09-26 15:44:50 +02:00
math-emu s390/comments: unify copyright messages and remove file names 2012-07-20 11:15:04 +02:00
mm s390/mm: mark free_initrd_mem() as __init 2012-09-26 15:45:27 +02:00
net s390/bpf,jit: add support for BPF_S_ANC_ALU_XOR_X instruction 2012-09-26 15:45:28 +02:00
oprofile oprofile, s390: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to oprofilefs 2012-08-27 14:49:23 +02:00
defconfig s390: update defconfig 2012-09-26 15:45:29 +02:00
Kbuild s390/bpf,jit: BPF Just In Time compiler for s390 2012-09-26 15:44:49 +02:00
Kconfig Kconfig: clean up the "#if defined(arch)" list for exception-trace sysctl entry 2012-10-09 16:22:14 +09:00
Kconfig.debug [S390] Write protect module text and RO data 2011-03-15 17:08:23 +01:00
Makefile s390: Use generic init_task 2012-05-05 13:00:25 +02:00