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authorGerald Schaefer <[email protected]>2016-06-24 14:50:04 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2016-06-24 17:23:52 -0700
commitc8cc708a340cc7c5445565079fd4d1c28898d7a2 (patch)
tree762c068bb573bae6500d5a24d41d999ddf5f5863 /tools/perf/scripts/python/sctop.py
parent8f182270dfec432e93fae14f9208a6b9af01009f (diff)
mm/hugetlb: clear compound_mapcount when freeing gigantic pages
While working on s390 support for gigantic hugepages I ran into the following "Bad page state" warning when freeing gigantic pages: BUG: Bad page state in process bash pfn:580001 page:000003d116000040 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:ffffffff00000000 index:0x0 flags: 0x7fffc0000000000() page dumped because: non-NULL mapping This is because page->compound_mapcount, which is part of a union with page->mapping, is initialized with -1 in prep_compound_gigantic_page(), and not cleared again during destroy_compound_gigantic_page(). Fix this by clearing the compound_mapcount in destroy_compound_gigantic_page() before clearing compound_head. Interestingly enough, the warning will not show up on x86_64, although this should not be architecture specific. Apparently there is an endianness issue, combined with the fact that the union contains both a 64 bit ->mapping pointer and a 32 bit atomic_t ->compound_mapcount as members. The resulting bogus page->mapping on x86_64 therefore contains 00000000ffffffff instead of ffffffff00000000 on s390, which will falsely trigger the PageAnon() check in free_pages_prepare() because page->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON is true on little-endian architectures like x86_64 in this case (the page is not compound anymore, ->compound_head was already cleared before). As a result, page->mapping will be cleared before doing the checks in free_pages_check(). Not sure if the bogus "PageAnon() returning true" on x86_64 for the first tail page of a gigantic page (at this stage) has other theoretical implications, but they would also be fixed with this patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <[email protected]> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]> Cc: Hillf Danton <[email protected]> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <[email protected]> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]> Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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