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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: 3.10-rc ppc64 corrupts usermem when swapping
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 08:23:02 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1370038982.3928.147.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppw7mrx7.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 14:45 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:

> > The patch you are running on is what I'll send to Linus for 3.10 (+/-
> > cosmetics). Aneesh second patch is a much larger rework which will be
> > needed for THP but that will wait for 3.11. I'm happy for you to test it
> > but I first want to make sure it's solid with the 3.10 fix :-)

BTW. One concern I still have is that Hugh identified the bad commit
to be:

7e74c3921ad9610c0b49f28b8fc69f7480505841
"powerpc: Fix hpte_decode to use the correct decoding for page sizes".

However, you introduce the return on HPTE not found earlier, in

b1022fbd293564de91596b8775340cf41ad5214c
"powerpc: Decode the pte-lp-encoding bits correctly."

So while I'm still happy with the current band-aid for 3.10 and am
about to send it to Linus, the above *does* seem to indicate that
there is also something wrong with the "Fix hpte_decode..." commit,
which might not actually get the page size right...

Can you investigate ?

Cheers,
Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-31 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-30  5:47 3.10-rc ppc64 corrupts usermem when swapping Hugh Dickins
2013-05-30  7:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-05-30  8:27   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-30  8:33     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-05-30 13:48       ` Hugh Dickins
2013-05-31  5:05         ` Hugh Dickins
2013-05-31  5:31           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-05-31 14:45             ` Hugh Dickins
     [not found]             ` <87ppw7mrx7.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-05-31 22:23               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-06-02  7:22                 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-06-02 18:19                   ` Hugh Dickins
2013-05-30 16:10     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V

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