Re: [PATCHv2] m68k: fix "bad page state" oops on ColdFire boot

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Tue Jun 19 2018 - 02:53:49 EST


On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 2:47 AM Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Booting a ColdFire m68k core with MMU enabled causes a "bad page state"
> oops since commit 1d40a5ea01d5 ("mm: mark pages in use for page tables"):
>
> BUG: Bad page state in process sh pfn:01ce2
> page:004fefc8 count:0 mapcount:-1024 mapping:00000000 index:0x0
> flags: 0x0()
> raw: 00000000 00000000 00000000 fffffbff 00000000 00000100 00000200 00000000
> raw: 039c4000
> page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 22 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.17.0-07461-g1d40a5ea01d5 #13
>
> Fix by calling pgtable_page_dtor() in our __pte_free_tlb() code path,
> so that the PG_table flag is cleared before we free the pte page.
>
> Note that I had to change the type of pte_free() to be static from
> extern. Otherwise you get a lot of warnings like this:
>
> ./arch/m68k/include/asm/mcf_pgalloc.h:80:2: warning: âpgtable_page_dtorâ is static but used in inline function âpte_freeâ which is not static
> pgtable_page_dtor(page);
> ^
>
> And making it static is consistent with our use of this in the other
> m68k pgalloc definitions of pte_free().
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

CC: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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