linux-kernel - [64/94] mm/THP: use pmd_populate() to update the pmd with pgtable

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Message-ID: <lsq.1369712993.970656004@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 28 May 2013 04:49:53 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Hugh Dickins" <hughd@...gle.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"Andrea Arcangeli" <aarcange@...hat.com>
Subject: [64/94] mm/THP: use pmd_populate() to update the pmd with
 pgtable_t pointer

3.2.46-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit 7c3425123ddfdc5f48e7913ff59d908789712b18 upstream.

We should not use set_pmd_at to update pmd_t with pgtable_t pointer.
set_pmd_at is used to set pmd with huge pte entries and architectures
like ppc64, clear few flags from the pte when saving a new entry.
Without this change we observe bad pte errors like below on ppc64 with
THP enabled.

  BUG: Bad page map in process ld mm=0xc000001ee39f4780 pte:7fc3f37848000001 pmd:c000001ec0000000

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1937,7 +1937,12 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm
 		pte_unmap(pte);
 		spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 		BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*pmd));
-		set_pmd_at(mm, address, pmd, _pmd);
+		/*
+		 * We can only use set_pmd_at when establishing
+		 * hugepmds and never for establishing regular pmds that
+		 * points to regular pagetables. Use pmd_populate for that
+		 */
+		pmd_populate(mm, pmd, pmd_pgtable(_pmd));
 		spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 		anon_vma_unlock(vma->anon_vma);
 		goto out;

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