Re: [PATCH] thp: call pmdp_invalidate() with correct virtual address

From: Will Deacon
Date: Wed Feb 24 2016 - 11:17:18 EST


On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 06:58:03PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Sebastian Ott and Gerald Schaefer reported random crashes on s390.
> It was bisected to my THP refcounting patchset.
>
> The problem is that pmdp_invalidated() called with wrong virtual
> address. It got offset up by HPAGE_PMD_SIZE by loop over ptes.
>
> The solution is to introduce new variable to be used in loop and don't
> touch 'haddr'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by Sebastian Ott <sebott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/huge_memory.c | 9 +++++----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Will