[PATCH] powerpc: thp: Fix crash on mremap

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 04:19:51 +0200 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill at shutemov.name> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 09:29:05PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 15:23 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > 
> > > This patch fix the below crash
> > > 
> > > NIP [c00000000004cee4] .__hash_page_thp+0x2a4/0x440
> > > LR [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0
> > > ...
> > > Call Trace:
> > > [c000000736103c40] [00001ffffb000000] 0x1ffffb000000(unreliable)
> > > [437908.479693] [c000000736103d50] [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0
> > > [437908.479699] [c000000736103e30] [c00000000000924c] .do_hash_page+0x4c/0x58
> > > 
> > > On ppc64 we use the pgtable for storing the hpte slot information and
> > > store address to the pgtable at a constant offset (PTRS_PER_PMD) from
> > > pmd. On mremap, when we switch the pmd, we need to withdraw and deposit
> > > the pgtable again, so that we find the pgtable at PTRS_PER_PMD offset
> > > from new pmd.
> > > 
> > > We also want to move the withdraw and deposit before the set_pmd so
> > > that, when page fault find the pmd as trans huge we can be sure that
> > > pgtable can be located at the offset.
> > > 

Did this get fixed?