[PATCH 3/4] powerpc: gup_hugepte() avoid to free the head page too many times

[Andrea Arcangeli]

We only taken "refs" pins on the head page not "*nr" pins.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index b649c28..78b14ab 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -428,10 +428,9 @@ static noinline int gup_hugepte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long sz, unsigned long add
 
 	if (unlikely(pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep))) {
 		/* Could be optimized better */
-		while (*nr) {
+		*nr -= refs;
+		while (refs--)
 			put_page(head);
-			(*nr)--;
-		}
 	}
 
 	return 1;
-- 
1.7.3.4

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