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mm/gup: Fix the lockless PMD access
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On architectures where the PTE/PMD is larger than the native word size
(i386-PAE for example), READ_ONCE() can do the wrong thing. Use
pmdp_get_lockless() just like we use ptep_get_lockless().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221022114424.906110403%40infradead.org
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Peter Zijlstra authored and hansendc committed Dec 15, 2022
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion kernel/events/core.c
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Expand Up @@ -7306,7 +7306,7 @@ static u64 perf_get_pgtable_size(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
return pud_leaf_size(pud);

pmdp = pmd_offset_lockless(pudp, pud, addr);
pmd = READ_ONCE(*pmdp);
pmd = pmdp_get_lockless(pmdp);
if (!pmd_present(pmd))
return 0;

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion mm/gup.c
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Expand Up @@ -2808,7 +2808,7 @@ static int gup_pmd_range(pud_t *pudp, pud_t pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned lo

pmdp = pmd_offset_lockless(pudp, pud, addr);
do {
pmd_t pmd = READ_ONCE(*pmdp);
pmd_t pmd = pmdp_get_lockless(pmdp);

next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
if (!pmd_present(pmd))
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