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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com,
	wli@holomorphy.com, david.woodhouse@intel.com,
	allen.m.kay@intel.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com,
	andi@firstfloor.org, chaohong.guo@intel.com,
	Youquan Song <youquan.song@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] thp: Add compound tail page _mapcount when mapped
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:19:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111129001927.GO24062@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111128161626.e4be400a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

> > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
> > @@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ static noinline int gup_huge_pud(pud_t pud, unsigned long addr,
> >  	do {
> >  		VM_BUG_ON(compound_head(page) != head);
> >  		pages[*nr] = page;
> > +		if (PageTail(page))
> > +			get_huge_page_tail(page);
> >  		(*nr)++;
> >  		page++;
> >  		refs++;
> 
> Is the patch also applicable to 3.1.x?

I suspect it's broken since many kernels back, at least since THP 
was introduced, maybe earlier.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-29  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-25  5:47 [PATCH 1/2] thp: Add compound tail page _mapcount when mapped Youquan Song
2011-11-25  5:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] thp: Set compound tail page _count to zero Youquan Song
2011-11-25 13:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] thp: Add compound tail page _mapcount when mapped Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-29  0:16 ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-29  0:19   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-11-29  0:58     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-29 18:00       ` Youquan Song
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-11-26  3:23 Youquan Song

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