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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] [PATCH] Align faulting address to a hugepage boundary before unmapping
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On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 18:30 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> When taking a fault for COW on a private mapping it is possible that the
> parent will have to steal the original page from its children due to an
> insufficient hugepage pool. In this case, unmap_ref_private() is called
> for the faulting address to unmap via unmap_hugepage_range(). This patch
> ensures that the address used for unmapping is hugepage-aligned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>

Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>

Tested and confirmed.

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Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center



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