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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2008-05-06 20:49:23 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-05-06 13:08:58 -0700
commitaeed5fce37196e09b4dac3a1c00d8b7122e040ce (patch)
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parentbb78be8397d3b0900af3d717672218ee3ea07985 (diff)
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x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning
Fix warning from pmd_bad() at bootup on a HIGHMEM64G HIGHPTE x86_32. That came from 9fc34113f6880b215cbea4e7017fc818700384c2 x86: debug pmd_bad(); but we understand now that the typecasting was wrong for PAE in the previous version: pagetable pages above 4GB looked bad and stopped Arjan from booting. And revert that cded932b75ab0a5f9181ee3da34a0a488d1a14fd x86: fix pmd_bad and pud_bad to support huge pages. It was the wrong way round: we shouldn't weaken every pmd_bad and pud_bad check to let huge pages slip through - in part they check that we _don't_ have a huge page where it's not expected. Put the x86 pmd_bad() and pud_bad() definitions back to what they have long been: they can be improved (x86_32 should use PTE_MASK, to stop PAE thinking junk in the upper word is good; and x86_64 should follow x86_32's stricter comparison, to stop thinking any subset of required bits is good); but that should be a later patch. Fix Hans' good observation that follow_page() will never find pmd_huge() because that would have already failed the pmd_bad test: test pmd_huge in between the pmd_none and pmd_bad tests. Tighten x86's pmd_huge() check? No, once it's a hugepage entry, it can get quite far from a good pmd: for example, PROT_NONE leaves it with only ACCESSED of the KERN_PGTABLE bits. However... though follow_page() contains this and another test for huge pages, so it's nice to keep it working on them, where does it actually get called on a huge page? get_user_pages() checks is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) to to call alternative hugetlb processing, as does unmap_vmas() and others. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Earlier-version-tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index bbab1e37055e..48c122d42ed7 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
goto no_page_table;
pmd = pmd_offset(pud, address);
- if (pmd_none(*pmd) || unlikely(pmd_bad(*pmd)))
+ if (pmd_none(*pmd))
goto no_page_table;
if (pmd_huge(*pmd)) {
@@ -978,6 +978,9 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
goto out;
}
+ if (unlikely(pmd_bad(*pmd)))
+ goto no_page_table;
+
ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, &ptl);
if (!ptep)
goto out;