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From: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Handling spurious page fault for hugetlb region for 2.6.14-rc4-git5
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:33:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1129732387.8702.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051018210721.4c80a292.akpm@osdl.org>

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 21:07 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > The prefetching problem is handled OK for regular pages because we can
> >  handle page faults corresponding to those pages.  That is currently not
> >  true for hugepages.  Currently the kernel assumes that PAGE_FAULT
> >  happening against a hugetlb page is caused by truncate and returns
> >  SIGBUS.
> 
> Doh.  No fault handler.  The penny finally drops.
> 
> Adam, I think this patch is temporary?

Yeah, looks like it can be dropped now since we handle this case (in
hugetlb_fault) as:

>         size = i_size_read(mapping->host) >> HPAGE_SHIFT;
>         if (idx >= size)
>                 goto backout;
> 
>         ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
>         if (!pte_none(*pte))
>                 goto backout;

-- 
Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center


  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-19 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-18 21:15 [PATCH]: Handling spurious page fault for hugetlb region for 2.6.14-rc4-git5 Seth, Rohit
2005-10-18 21:34 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-18 22:17   ` Rohit Seth
2005-10-19  0:25     ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-19  3:25       ` Rohit Seth
2005-10-19  4:07         ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-19 14:33           ` Adam Litke [this message]
2005-10-19 15:48           ` Hugh Dickins
2005-10-19 19:05             ` Rohit Seth
2005-10-19 20:00               ` Hugh Dickins
2005-10-19 20:19                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-19 20:28                   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-10-19 23:53                     ` Rohit Seth
2005-10-20  1:36                       ` Rohit Seth
2005-10-20  1:37                         ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-20  6:17                         ` Hugh Dickins
2005-10-19 15:23         ` Hugh Dickins
2005-10-19 18:47           ` Rohit Seth
2005-10-19 20:53             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-19 21:59               ` Tony Luck
2005-10-20  0:05               ` Rohit Seth

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