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@ 2004-01-21  3:58 Anton Blanchard
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From: Anton Blanchard @ 2004-01-21  3:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: akpm


Hi,

Paul wrote a patch to use some of the rmap infrastructure to flush TLB
entries on ppc64. When testing it we found a problem in vmalloc where it
sets up the pte -> address mapping incorrectly. We clear the top bits of
the address but then forget to pass in the full address to
pte_alloc_kernel. The end result is the address in page->index is
truncated.

I fixed it in a similar way to how zeromap_pmd_range etc does it. Im
guessing no one uses the rmap hooks on vmalloc pages yet, so havent seen
this problem.

Anton

===== mm/vmalloc.c 1.29 vs edited =====
--- 1.29/mm/vmalloc.c	Wed Oct  8 12:53:44 2003
+++ edited/mm/vmalloc.c	Wed Jan 21 14:48:23 2004
@@ -114,15 +114,16 @@
 			       unsigned long size, pgprot_t prot,
 			       struct page ***pages)
 {
-	unsigned long end;
+	unsigned long base, end;
 
+	base = address & PGDIR_MASK;
 	address &= ~PGDIR_MASK;
 	end = address + size;
 	if (end > PGDIR_SIZE)
 		end = PGDIR_SIZE;
 
 	do {
-		pte_t * pte = pte_alloc_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, address);
+		pte_t * pte = pte_alloc_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, base + address);
 		if (!pte)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		if (map_area_pte(pte, address, end - address, prot, pages))

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