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Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h index 86b8fe398b95..70f041cb50d1 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h @@ -166,6 +166,23 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr) clean_pmd_entry(pmdp); \ } while (0) +/* + * For 3 levels of paging the PTE_EXT_NG bit will be set for user address ptes + * that are written to a page table but not for ptes created with mk_pte. + * + * In hugetlb_no_page, a new huge pte (new_pte) is generated and passed to + * hugetlb_cow, where it is compared with an entry in a page table. + * This comparison test fails erroneously leading ultimately to a memory leak. + * + * To correct this behaviour, we mask off PTE_EXT_NG for any pte that is + * present before running the comparison. + */ +#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SAME +#define pte_same(pte_a,pte_b) ((pte_present(pte_a) ? pte_val(pte_a) & ~PTE_EXT_NG \ + : pte_val(pte_a)) \ + == (pte_present(pte_b) ? pte_val(pte_b) & ~PTE_EXT_NG \ + : pte_val(pte_b))) + #define set_pte_ext(ptep,pte,ext) cpu_set_pte_ext(ptep,__pte(pte_val(pte)|(ext))) #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ |