Re: [PATCH] mm, gup: fix typo in gup_p4d_range()

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Tue Mar 14 2017 - 14:37:20 EST


Hi Kirill,

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:22 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> gup_p4d_range() should call gup_pud_range(), not itself.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: c2febafc6773 ("mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging")

FTR, this (now commit ce70df089143c493) fixes the strange crashes I saw
with plain v4.11-rc2 and renesas-devel-20170313-v4.11-rc2 during shutdown on
Renesas R-Car Gen2 (arm) and R-Car Gen3 (arm64) (but not on older
SH/R-Mobile), and that I bisected to commit c2febafc6773.

Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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