From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1320900086 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:39:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:39:16 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Check if PTE is already allocated during page fault Message-ID: <20110415143916.GN15707@random.random> References: <20110415101248.GB22688@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110415101248.GB22688@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, raz ben yehuda , riel@redhat.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, lkml , linux-mm@kvack.org, stable@kernel.org On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:12:48AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c > index 5823698..1659574 100644 > --- a/mm/memory.c > +++ b/mm/memory.c > @@ -3322,7 +3322,7 @@ int handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, > * run pte_offset_map on the pmd, if an huge pmd could > * materialize from under us from a different thread. > */ > - if (unlikely(__pte_alloc(mm, vma, pmd, address))) > + if (unlikely(pmd_none(*pmd)) && __pte_alloc(mm, vma, pmd, address)) > return VM_FAULT_OOM; > /* if an huge pmd materialized from under us just retry later */ > if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org