Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix PTE page address mismatch in pgtable ctor/dtor

["Hong H. Pham" <hong.pham@windriver.com>]

There is a typo in the v2 patch, please disregard it.  The v3 patch with
the correction will follow.

Thanks,
Hong

On 12/06/2013 11:15 AM, Hong H. Pham wrote:
> Hi Aneesh,
>
> On 12/06/2013 05:38 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>
>> can you also specifiy the config details here. ie, 4K page size functions
>> are broken ?
>
> My PPC64 config has SMP and 4K page size enabled.  I re-tested with 64K page size,
> and the problem is not present.
>
> I have added a note that this problem affects only PPC32 and PPC64 SMP kernels.
> On PPC64, the problem is limited to 4K page size.
>
>> make it closer to what it was before,
>>
>> pgtable_page_dtor(table);
>> pgtable_free_tlb(tlb, page_address(table), 0);
>>
>> This is what we had before
>>
>> -static inline void __pte_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *ptepage,
>> -                                 unsigned long address)
>> -{
>> -       tlb_flush_pgtable(tlb, address);
>> -       pgtable_page_dtor(ptepage);
>> -       pgtable_free_tlb(tlb, page_address(ptepage), 0);
>> -}
>>
>>
>> -aneesh
>>
>
> Done.
>
> Thanks,
> Hong