[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "mm/hugetlb: use pmd_page() in follow_huge_pmd()" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue May 26 23:35:08 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mm/hugetlb: use pmd_page() in follow_huge_pmd()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt21.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 658cd810941b891b323d4ad81ef8389854c82f47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer at de.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:42:30 -0700
Subject: mm/hugetlb: use pmd_page() in follow_huge_pmd()

commit 97534127012f0e396eddea4691f4c9b170aed74b upstream.

Commit 61f77eda9bbf ("mm/hugetlb: reduce arch dependent code around
follow_huge_*") broke follow_huge_pmd() on s390, where pmd and pte
layout differ and using pte_page() on a huge pmd will return wrong
results.  Using pmd_page() instead fixes this.

All architectures that were touched by that commit have pmd_page()
defined, so this should not break anything on other architectures.

Fixes: 61f77eda "mm/hugetlb: reduce arch dependent code around follow_huge_*"
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer at de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi at ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.cz>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky at de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index a716aac..b14f49b 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3491,8 +3491,7 @@ retry:
 	if (!pmd_huge(*pmd))
 		goto out;
 	if (pmd_present(*pmd)) {
-		page = pte_page(*(pte_t *)pmd) +
-			((address & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+		page = pmd_page(*pmd) + ((address & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 		if (flags & FOLL_GET)
 			get_page(page);
 	} else {
--
1.9.1





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