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Protect VMA from concurrent page fault handler while collapsing a huge page. Page fault handler needs a stable PMD to use PTL and relies on per-VMA lock to prevent concurrent PMD changes. pmdp_collapse_flush(), set_huge_pmd() and collapse_and_free_pmd() can modify a PMD, which will not be detected by a page fault handler without proper locking. Before this patch, page tables can be walked under any one of the mmap_lock, the mapping lock, and the anon_vma lock; so when khugepaged unlinks and frees page tables, it must ensure that all of those either are locked or don't exist. This patch adds a fourth lock under which page tables can be traversed, and so khugepaged must also lock out that one. [surenb@google.com: vm_lock/i_mmap_rwsem inversion in retract_page_tables] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230303213250.3555716-1-surenb@google.com [surenb@google.com: build fix] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJuCfpFjWhtzRE1X=J+_JjgJzNKhq-=JT8yTBSTHthwp0pqWZw@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-16-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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