On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 22:43:06 +0200 Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This fixes a bug in madvise() where if you'd try to soft offline a > hugepage via madvise(), while walking the address range you'd end up, > using the wrong page offset due to attempting to get the compound > order of a former but presently not compound page, due to dissolving > the huge page (since c3114a8). What are the user visible effects of the bug? The wrong page is offlined? No offlining occurs?