Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] arm64: hugetlb: Fix huge_pte_offset to return poisoned page table entries
From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Wed Jun 07 2017 - 11:02:13 EST
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 04:23:34PM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> When memory failure is enabled, a poisoned hugepage pte is marked as a
> swap entry. huge_pte_offset() does not return the poisoned page table
> entries when it encounters PUD/PMD hugepages.
>
> This behaviour of huge_pte_offset() leads to error such as below when
> munmap is called on poisoned hugepages.
>
> [ 344.165544] mm/pgtable-generic.c:33: bad pmd 000000083af00074.
>
> Fix huge_pte_offset() to return the poisoned pte which is then
> appropriately handled by the generic layer code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Woods <dwoods@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Since the patch matches my suggestions in v1:
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>