From: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
To: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
sparclinux <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc64: Fix gup_huge_pmd
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 20:53:57 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGRGNgXePANYQ5HNhc-mojrf9=tA0Xvfh-ySFgaWatbB3fmLiw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1498081816-179369-1-git-send-email-nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com>
Hi Nitin,
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 7:50 AM, Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com> wrote:
> The function assumes that each PMD points to head of a
> huge page. This is not correct as a PMD can point to
> start of any 8M region with a, say 256M, hugepage. The
> fix ensures that it points to the correct head of any PMD
> huge page.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com>
> ---
> arch/sparc/mm/gup.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/gup.c b/arch/sparc/mm/gup.c
> index cd0e32b..9116a6f 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/arch/sparc/mm/gup.c
> @@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ static int gup_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr,
> refs = 0;
> head = pmd_page(pmd);
> page = head + ((addr & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> + if (PageTail(head))
> + head = compound_head(head);
Stupid question: shouldn't this go before the page calculation?
> do {
> VM_BUG_ON(compound_head(page) != head);
> pages[*nr] = page;
Thanks,
--
Julian Calaby
Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com
Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-22 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-21 21:50 [PATCH] sparc64: Fix gup_huge_pmd Nitin Gupta
2017-06-22 10:53 ` Julian Calaby [this message]
2017-06-22 14:37 ` Nitin Gupta
2017-06-22 14:45 ` Julian Calaby
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