linux-kernel - Re: Crash in -next due to 'mm/vmalloc: replace opencoded 4-level page walkers'

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Date:   Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:26:57 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
Cc:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: Crash in -next due to 'mm/vmalloc: replace opencoded 4-level
 page walkers'

On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 21:15:48 +0100 Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk> wrote:

> > Bisect points to commit 0c79e3331f08 ("mm/vmalloc: replace opencoded 4-level
> > page walkers"). Reverting this patch fixes the problem.
> 
> Hmm, apply_to_pte_range() has a BUG_ON(pmd_huge(*pmd)) but the old
> vmap_pte_range() does not and neither has the code to handle that case.
> Presuming that the BUG_ON() there is actually meaningful.

Thanks, I'll drop mm-vmalloc-replace-opencoded-4-level-page-walkers.patch for now.