linux-kernel - Re: Badness at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:286

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Message-ID: <8b8dd87a0912130302iae9a62cj7afc2e056373a283@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:02:18 +0200
From:	kordex - <kordex@...il.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Badness at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:286

Hey,

Thank you it fixed the problem.

--Mikko Kortelainen

2009/12/10 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>:
> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 13:20 +0200, kordex - wrote:
>> arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c:362: error: too few arguments to function
>> ‘__set_pte_at’
>
> Right, you want to add an argument and set it to 0 :
>
>  -       set_pte_at(&init_mm, address, kpte, mk_pte(page, prot));
>  +       __set_pte_at(&init_mm, address, kpte, mk_pte(page, prot), 0);
>
> That should do it. Please let me know if that works.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
>> 2009/12/9 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>:
>> > On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 19:14 +0200, kordex - wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I turned some debuging options in order to trace rcutree problems but
>> >> after turning debugging on it began just to loop on this:
>> >>
>> >> http://xnet.fi/opt/pics/pgtable_badness.jpg
>> >> 1.5M   pgtable_badness.jpg
>> >>
>> >> I am sorry that I could not produce full dmesg.
>> >>
>> >> Kernel config: http://xnet.fi/opt/apps/lkml-2.6.32-vanilla.debug.config.txt
>> >
>> > Thanks for your report.
>> >
>> > Does that patch fixes it ?
>> >
>> > powerpc/mm: Fix a WARN_ON() with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
>> >
>> > Set need to call __set_pte_at() and not set_pte_at() from __change_page_attr()
>> > since the later will perform checks with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM that aren't suitable
>> > to the way we override an existing PTE. (More specifically, it doesn't let
>> > you write over a present PTE).
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
>> > ---
>> >
>> > Index: linux-work/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
>> > ===================================================================
>> > --- linux-work.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c        2009-12-09 18:06:14.000000000 +1100
>> > +++ linux-work/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c     2009-12-09 18:06:16.000000000 +1100
>> > @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ static int __change_page_attr(struct pag
>> >                return 0;
>> >        if (!get_pteptr(&init_mm, address, &kpte, &kpmd))
>> >                return -EINVAL;
>> > -       set_pte_at(&init_mm, address, kpte, mk_pte(page, prot));
>> > +       __set_pte_at(&init_mm, address, kpte, mk_pte(page, prot));
>> >        wmb();
>> >  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU
>> >        flush_hash_pages(0, address, pmd_val(*kpmd), 1);
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
>
>
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