[PATCH -V2] powerpc: Fix bad pmd error with book3E config

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jun 19 16:34:26 EST 2013


From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Book3E uses the hugepd at PMD level and don't encode pte directly
at the pmd level. So it will find the lower bits of pmd set
and the pmd_bad check throws error. Infact the current code
will never take the free_hugepd_range call at all because it will
clear the pmd if it find a hugepd pointer. Fix this by clearing
bad pmd only if it is not a hugepd pointer.

This is regression introduced by e2b3d202d1dba8f3546ed28224ce485bc50010be
"powerpc: Switch 16GB and 16MB explicit hugepages to a different page table format"

Reported-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index f2f01fd..5555778 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -536,8 +536,14 @@ static void hugetlb_free_pmd_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pud_t *pud,
 	do {
 		pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
 		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
-		if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
+		if (!is_hugepd(pmd)) {
+			/*
+			 * if it is not hugepd pointer, we should already find
+			 * it cleared.
+			 */
+			WARN_ON(!pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd));
 			continue;
+		}
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
 		/*
 		 * Increment next by the size of the huge mapping since
-- 
1.8.1.2



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