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SubjectRe: [BUG] 2.6.30-rc3: BUG triggered on some hugepage usages
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On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:59 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:

> This patch fixes the problem by not asseting the PTE is locked for VMAs
> backed by huge pages.

Thanks, will apply.

Cheers,
Ben.

> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> index f5c6fd4..ae1d67c 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> @@ -219,7 +219,8 @@ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
> entry = do_dcache_icache_coherency(entry);
> changed = !pte_same(*(ptep), entry);
> if (changed) {
> - assert_pte_locked(vma->vm_mm, address);
> + if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB))
> + assert_pte_locked(vma->vm_mm, address);
> __ptep_set_access_flags(ptep, entry);
> flush_tlb_page_nohash(vma, address);
> }



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