On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Punit Agrawal <[email protected]> wrote:
> When unmapping a hugepage range, huge_pte_clear() is used to clear the
> page table entries that are marked as not present. huge_pte_clear()
> internally just ends up calling pte_clear() which does not correctly
> deal with hugepages consisting of contiguous page table entries.
>
> Add a size argument to address this issue and allow architectures to
> override huge_pte_clear() by wrapping it in a #ifndef block.
>
> Update s390 implementation with the size parameter as well.
>
> Note that the change only affects huge_pte_clear() - the other generic
> hugetlb functions don't need any change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <[email protected]>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

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