On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:34:24AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > This patch fix the below crash > > NIP [c00000000004cee4] .__hash_page_thp+0x2a4/0x440 > LR [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0 > ... > Call Trace: > [c000000736103c40] [00001ffffb000000] 0x1ffffb000000(unreliable) > [437908.479693] [c000000736103d50] [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0 > [437908.479699] [c000000736103e30] [c00000000000924c] .do_hash_page+0x4c/0x58 > > On ppc64 we use the pgtable for storing the hpte slot information and > store address to the pgtable at a constant offset (PTRS_PER_PMD) from > pmd. On mremap, when we switch the pmd, we need to withdraw and deposit > the pgtable again, so that we find the pgtable at PTRS_PER_PMD offset > from new pmd. > > We also want to move the withdraw and deposit before the set_pmd so > that, when page fault find the pmd as trans huge we can be sure that > pgtable can be located at the offset. > > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> -- Kirill A. Shutemov _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev