linux-kernel - Re: [ 04/26] hugetlbfs: add swap entry check in follow_hugetlb

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Message-ID: <20130424232329.GA9073@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:23:29 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ 04/26] hugetlbfs: add swap entry check in follow_hugetlb_page()

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:04:10AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 02:53:44PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> > 
> > commit 9cc3a5bd40067b9a0fbd49199d0780463fc2140f upstream.
> > 
> > With applying the previous patch "hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in
> > initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB)" to reenable hugepage coredump, if a memory
> > error happens on a hugepage and the affected processes try to access the
> > error hugepage, we hit VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) <= 0) in
> > get_page().
>  
> Is this required?  You didn't apply the previous patch referred to
> above (commit a2fce9143057) to 3.4.y or 3.0.y since it claimed to fix
> a regression in 3.7 (commit 314e51b9851b 'mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED
> and mm->reserved_vm counter').
> 
> I'm not saying it *isn't* required, mind.

Yeah, but I went off of the stable: marking in this patch, which said:
	    Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>        [2.6.34+?]


Naoya, any chance you could clear this up?  Is this needed for kernels
older than 3.7?

thanks,

greg k-h
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