Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: fix pgoff computation when unmapping pagefrom vma

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Dec 20 2011 - 09:14:57 EST


[CCing Mel]

On Tue 20-12-11 21:45:51, Hillf Danton wrote:
> The computation for pgoff is incorrect, at least with
>
> (vma->vm_pgoff >> PAGE_SHIFT)
>
> involved. It is fixed with the available method if HPAGE_SIZE is concerned in
> page cache lookup.

Have you seen this as a real issue? I guess nobody noticed as it is
quite rare error case.
Anyways, yes, looks good.

> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c Tue Dec 20 21:26:30 2011
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c Tue Dec 20 21:40:44 2011
> @@ -2315,8 +2315,7 @@ static int unmap_ref_private(struct mm_s
> * from page cache lookup which is in HPAGE_SIZE units.
> */
> address = address & huge_page_mask(h);
> - pgoff = ((address - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
> - + (vma->vm_pgoff >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> + pgoff = linear_hugepage_index(vma, address);

You have hstate so you can use vma_hugecache_offset directly

> mapping = (struct address_space *)page_private(page);
>
> /*
>

Thanks
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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Czech Republic
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