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Revision c8cc708a340cc7c5445565079fd4d1c28898d7a2 authored by Gerald Schaefer on 24 June 2016, 21:50:04 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 25 June 2016, 00:23:52 UTC
While working on s390 support for gigantic hugepages I ran into the following "Bad page state" warning when freeing gigantic pages: BUG: Bad page state in process bash pfn:580001 page:000003d116000040 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:ffffffff00000000 index:0x0 flags: 0x7fffc0000000000() page dumped because: non-NULL mapping This is because page->compound_mapcount, which is part of a union with page->mapping, is initialized with -1 in prep_compound_gigantic_page(), and not cleared again during destroy_compound_gigantic_page(). Fix this by clearing the compound_mapcount in destroy_compound_gigantic_page() before clearing compound_head. Interestingly enough, the warning will not show up on x86_64, although this should not be architecture specific. Apparently there is an endianness issue, combined with the fact that the union contains both a 64 bit ->mapping pointer and a 32 bit atomic_t ->compound_mapcount as members. The resulting bogus page->mapping on x86_64 therefore contains 00000000ffffffff instead of ffffffff00000000 on s390, which will falsely trigger the PageAnon() check in free_pages_prepare() because page->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON is true on little-endian architectures like x86_64 in this case (the page is not compound anymore, ->compound_head was already cleared before). As a result, page->mapping will be cleared before doing the checks in free_pages_check(). Not sure if the bogus "PageAnon() returning true" on x86_64 for the first tail page of a gigantic page (at this stage) has other theoretical implications, but they would also be fixed with this patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466612719-5642-1-git-send-email-gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: c8cc708a340cc7c5445565079fd4d1c28898d7a2 authored by Gerald Schaefer on 24 June 2016, 21:50:04 UTC
mm/hugetlb: clear compound_mapcount when freeing gigantic pages
mm/hugetlb: clear compound_mapcount when freeing gigantic pages
Tip revision: c8cc708
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