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* [PATCH 1/5] powerpc/mm: Handle hypervisor pte insert failure in __hash_page_huge
@ 2010-07-23  0:41 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  2010-07-23  0:41 ` [PATCH 2/5] powerpc/mm: Move around testing of _PAGE_PRESENT in hash code Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt @ 2010-07-23  0:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linuxppc-dev; +Cc: Anton Blanchard

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

If the hypervisor gives us an error on a hugepage insert we panic. The
normal page code already handles this by returning an error instead and we end
calling low_hash_fault which will just kill the task if possible.

The patch below does a similar thing for the hugepage case.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage-hash64.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage-hash64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage-hash64.c
index 1995398..c9acd79 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage-hash64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage-hash64.c
@@ -121,8 +121,15 @@ repeat:
                         }
 		}
 
-		if (unlikely(slot == -2))
-			panic("hash_huge_page: pte_insert failed\n");
+		/*
+		 * Hypervisor failure. Restore old pte and return -1
+		 * similar to __hash_page_*
+		 */
+		if (unlikely(slot == -2)) {
+			*ptep = __pte(old_pte);
+			err = -1;
+			goto out;
+		}
 
 		new_pte |= (slot << 12) & (_PAGE_F_SECOND | _PAGE_F_GIX);
 	}
-- 
1.6.3.3

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2010-07-23  0:41       ` [PATCH 5/5] powerpc: Fix erroneous lmb->memblock conversions Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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