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Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:53:35 +0100
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: Fix clear_user_highpage arguments

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:45:26AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> 
> > The virtual address space argument of clear_user_highpage is supposed to
> > be the virtual address where the page being cleared will eventually be
> > mapped. This allows architectures with virtually indexed caches a few
> > clever tricks.  That sort of trick falls over in painful ways if the
> > virtual address argument is wrong.
> 
> yeah, but only if you're using a weird CPU architecture ;)

I guess once I convinced your employer that weird CPU architectures
deliver more punch for the watt they stop being so weird ;-)

> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > index 84c795e..eab8c42 100644
> > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static void clear_huge_page(struct page *page, unsigned long addr)
> >  	might_sleep();
> >  	for (i = 0; i < (HPAGE_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE); i++) {
> >  		cond_resched();
> > -		clear_user_highpage(page + i, addr);
> > +		clear_user_highpage(page + i, addr + i * PAGE_SIZE);
> >  	}
> >  }
> >  
> 
> I'll add this to the 2.6.23 queue.  Is it needed in 2.6.22.x?

It's totally theoretical atm, MIPS doesn't support hugetlb and I'm not
even working on it.  I just happened to spot the issue.

  Ralf
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