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Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 10:29:52 +0300 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Reintroduce picky __compound_tail_refcounted() On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 07:24:56PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > My patch 8d63d99a5dfb which was merged during 4.1 merge window caused > regression: > > page:ffffea0010a15040 count:0 mapcount:1 mapping: (null) index:0x0 > flags: 0x8000000000008014(referenced|dirty|tail) > page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_mapcount(page) != 0) > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > kernel BUG at mm/swap.c:134! > > The patch was reverted by Linus. > > This VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() is bogus. The first patch explains why the assert is > wrong and removes it. The second re-introduces original patch. > > Kirill A. Shutemov (2): > mm: drop bogus VM_BUG_ON_PAGE assert in put_page() codepath > mm: avoid tail page refcounting on non-THP compound pages > > include/linux/mm.h | 2 +- > mm/swap.c | 1 - > 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) Ping? -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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