Re: 2.6.10 Kernel BUG at hugetlbpage:212 (x86_64 and i386)

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:06:05PM -0600, Mr. Berkley Shands wrote:
> Sorry, but I still crash. This time it hung the kernel so bad I had to 
> powerfail to restart.

Well, that fix is needed anyway.

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:06:05PM -0600, Mr. Berkley Shands wrote:
> Feb  4 13:43:19 eclipse kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8011e3cb>] 
> <ffffffff8011e3cb>{unmap_hugepage_range+75}

Could you try this?


-- wli


Index: mm2-2.6.11-rc2/arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c
===================================================================
--- mm2-2.6.11-rc2.orig/arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c	2005-01-29 01:13:39.000000000 -0800
+++ mm2-2.6.11-rc2/arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c	2005-02-04 12:05:12.000000000 -0800
@@ -209,14 +209,17 @@
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
 	unsigned long address;
-	pte_t pte;
+	pte_t pte, *ptep;
 	struct page *page;
 
 	BUG_ON(start & (HPAGE_SIZE - 1));
 	BUG_ON(end & (HPAGE_SIZE - 1));
 
 	for (address = start; address < end; address += HPAGE_SIZE) {
-		pte = ptep_get_and_clear(huge_pte_offset(mm, address));
+		ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address);
+		if (!ptep)
+			continue;
+		pte = ptep_get_and_clear(ptep);
 		if (pte_none(pte))
 			continue;
 		page = pte_page(pte);
-
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