linux-kernel - [PATCH] [6/8] CPA: Remove BUG

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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:50:21 +0100 (CET)
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [6/8] CPA: Remove BUG_ON for LRU/Compound pages


New implementation does not use lru for anything so there is no need
to reject pages that are in the LRU. Similar for compound pages (which
were checked because they also use page->lru)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>

---
 arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c |    5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

Index: linux/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ linux/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -545,7 +545,6 @@ static int __change_page_attr(unsigned l
 {
 	int do_split, err;
 	unsigned int level;
-	struct page *kpte_page;
 	pte_t *kpte;
 
 repeat:
@@ -553,10 +552,6 @@ repeat:
 	if (!kpte)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	kpte_page = virt_to_page(kpte);
-	BUG_ON(PageLRU(kpte_page));
-	BUG_ON(PageCompound(kpte_page));
-
 	if (level == PG_LEVEL_4K) {
 		pte_t new_pte, old_pte = *kpte;
 		pgprot_t new_prot = pte_pgprot(old_pte);
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