Re: [mm 4.15-rc8] Random oopses under memory pressure.

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 06:38:10AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 01/18/2018 05:12 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > -		if (pte_page(*pvmw->pte) - pvmw->page >=
> > -				hpage_nr_pages(pvmw->page)) {
> 
> Is ->pte guaranteed to map a page which is within the same section as
> pvmw->page?  Otherwise, with sparsemem (non-vmemmap), the pointer
> arithmetic won't work.

No, it's not guaranteed. It can be arbitrary page.

The arithmetic won't work because they are different "memory objects"?

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 Kirill A. Shutemov