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Yet, somehow, the PMD >> stuck around so that it *could* be used after being freed. It _looks_ >> like pmd_free_pte_page() freed the page, returned 0, and made >> vmap_try_huge_pmd() return early, skipping the pmd pmd_set_huge(). >> >> But I don't know how that could possibly happen. > > The reported issue is only related to this patch: > > - [PATCH v6 3/7] x86/mm: Use 'ptdesc' when freeing PMD pages > > It appears that the pmd_ptdesc() helper can't be used directly here in > this patch. pmd_ptdesc() retrieves the page table page that the PMD > entry resides in: > > static inline struct page *pmd_pgtable_page(pmd_t *pmd) > { > unsigned long mask = ~(PTRS_PER_PMD * sizeof(pmd_t) - 1); > return virt_to_page((void *)((unsigned long) pmd & mask)); > } > > static inline struct ptdesc *pmd_ptdesc(pmd_t *pmd) > { > return page_ptdesc(pmd_pgtable_page(pmd)); > } > > while, in this patch, we need the page descriptor that a pmd entry > points to. Ah. But that's just pointing at a leaf page table, right? -- Cheers David / dhildenb