* [folded-merged] mm-page_ref-add-tracepoint-to-track-down-page-reference-manipulation-fix-2.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2016-03-17 20:58 akpm
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From: akpm @ 2016-03-17 20:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: arnd, dan.j.williams, js1304, vbabka, vinod.koul, mm-commits
The patch titled
Subject: crypto/async_pq: use __free_page() instead of put_page()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-page_ref-add-tracepoint-to-track-down-page-reference-manipulation-fix-2.patch
This patch was dropped because it was folded into mm-page_ref-add-tracepoint-to-track-down-page-reference-manipulation.patch
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: crypto/async_pq: use __free_page() instead of put_page()
The addition of tracepoints to the page reference tracking had an
unfortunate side-effect in at least one driver that calls put_page from
its exit function, resulting in a link error:
`.exit.text' referenced in section `__jump_table' of crypto/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of crypto/built-in.o
From a cursory look at that this driver, it seems that it may be
doing the wrong thing here anyway, as the page gets allocated
using 'alloc_page()', and should be freed using '__free_page()'
rather than 'put_page()'.
With this patch, I no longer get any other build errors from the page_ref
patch, so hopefully we can assume that it's always wrong to call any of
those functions from __exit code, and that no other driver does it.
Fixes: 0f80830dd044 ("mm/page_ref: add tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
crypto/async_tx/async_pq.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN crypto/async_tx/async_pq.c~mm-page_ref-add-tracepoint-to-track-down-page-reference-manipulation-fix-2 crypto/async_tx/async_pq.c
--- a/crypto/async_tx/async_pq.c~mm-page_ref-add-tracepoint-to-track-down-page-reference-manipulation-fix-2
+++ a/crypto/async_tx/async_pq.c
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ static int __init async_pq_init(void)
static void __exit async_pq_exit(void)
{
- put_page(pq_scribble_page);
+ __free_page(pq_scribble_page);
}
module_init(async_pq_init);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from arnd@arndb.de are
mm-page_ref-add-tracepoint-to-track-down-page-reference-manipulation.patch
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