Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix gigantic page initialization/allocation

Vlastimil Babka
2016-02-05T11:52:23Z

On 02/03/2016 05:15 AM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 02/02/2016 07:01 PM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 03:17:10PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>>> I agree. Naoya did debug and provide fix via e-mail exchange. He did not
>>> sign-off and I could not tell if he was going to pursue. My only intention
>>> was to fix ASAP.
>>>
>>> More than happy to give Naoya credit.
>>
>> Thank you! It's great if you append my signed-off below yours.
>>
>> Naoya
>
> Adding Naoya's sign off and Acks received
>
> mm/hugetlb: fix gigantic page initialization/allocation
>
> Attempting to preallocate 1G gigantic huge pages at boot time with
> "hugepagesz=1G hugepages=1" on the kernel command line will prevent
> booting with the following:
>
> kernel BUG at mm/hugetlb.c:1218!
>
> When mapcount accounting was reworked, the setting of compound_mapcount_ptr
> in prep_compound_gigantic_page was overlooked. As a result, the validation
> of mapcount in free_huge_page fails.
>
> The "BUG_ON" checks in free_huge_page were also changed to "VM_BUG_ON_PAGE"
> to assist with debugging.
>
> Fixes: af5642a8af ("mm: rework mapcount accounting to enable 4k mapping
> of THPs")
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Tested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>