[PATCH 1/3] thp: fix forgetting to reset the page alloc indicator
From: Xiao Guangrong
Date:  Wed Sep 12 2012 - 08:58:34 EST
If NUMA is enabled, the indicator is not reset if the previous page
request is failed, then it will trigger the VM_BUG_ON in khugepaged_alloc_page
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index e366ca5..66d2bc6 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1825,6 +1825,7 @@ static bool khugepaged_prealloc_page(struct page **hpage, bool *wait)
 			return false;
 		*wait = false;
+		*hpage = NULL;
 		khugepaged_alloc_sleep();
 	} else if (*hpage) {
 		put_page(*hpage);
-- 
1.7.7.6
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