Re: [PATCH 1/2] thp: Add compound tail page _mapcount when mapped

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Nov 28 2011 - 19:19:28 EST


> > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
> > @@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ static noinline int gup_huge_pud(pud_t pud, unsigned long addr,
> > do {
> > VM_BUG_ON(compound_head(page) != head);
> > pages[*nr] = page;
> > + if (PageTail(page))
> > + get_huge_page_tail(page);
> > (*nr)++;
> > page++;
> > refs++;
>
> Is the patch also applicable to 3.1.x?

I suspect it's broken since many kernels back, at least since THP
was introduced, maybe earlier.

-Andi
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