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authorDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>2006-03-22 00:08:57 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-22 07:54:03 -0800
commit9da61aef0fd5b17dd4bf4baf33db12c470def774 (patch)
treecb4bb0b63c36a0b303ceadc0cec0fae00c49ecf3 /include/asm-ia64
parent27a85ef1b81300cfff06b4c8037e9914dfb09acc (diff)
[PATCH] hugepage: Fix hugepage logic in free_pgtables()
free_pgtables() has special logic to call hugetlb_free_pgd_range() instead of the normal free_pgd_range() on hugepage VMAs. However, the test it uses to do so is incorrect: it calls is_hugepage_only_range on a hugepage sized range at the start of the vma. is_hugepage_only_range() will return true if the given range has any intersection with a hugepage address region, and in this case the given region need not be hugepage aligned. So, for example, this test can return true if called on, say, a 4k VMA immediately preceding a (nicely aligned) hugepage VMA. At present we get away with this because the powerpc version of hugetlb_free_pgd_range() is just a call to free_pgd_range(). On ia64 (the only other arch with a non-trivial is_hugepage_only_range()) we get away with it for a different reason; the hugepage area is not contiguous with the rest of the user address space, and VMAs are not permitted in between, so the test can't return a false positive there. Nonetheless this should be fixed. We do that in the patch below by replacing the is_hugepage_only_range() test with an explicit test of the VMA using is_vm_hugetlb_page(). This in turn changes behaviour for platforms where is_hugepage_only_range() returns false always (everything except powerpc and ia64). We address this by ensuring that hugetlb_free_pgd_range() is defined to be identical to free_pgd_range() (instead of a no-op) on everything except ia64. Even so, it will prevent some otherwise possible coalescing of calls down to free_pgd_range(). Since this only happens for hugepage VMAs, removing this small optimization seems unlikely to cause any trouble. This patch causes no regressions on the libhugetlbfs testsuite - ppc64 POWER5 (8-way), ppc64 G5 (2-way) and i386 Pentium M (UP). Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-ia64')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-ia64/page.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/page.h b/include/asm-ia64/page.h
index 5e6362a786b..732cf308674 100644
--- a/include/asm-ia64/page.h
+++ b/include/asm-ia64/page.h
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
# define HAVE_ARCH_HUGETLB_UNMAPPED_AREA
# define ARCH_HAS_HUGEPAGE_ONLY_RANGE
+# define ARCH_HAS_HUGETLB_FREE_PGD_RANGE
#endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
#ifdef __ASSEMBLY__