Re: [PATCH 2/2] [BUGFIX] pagemap: fix pfn calculation for hugepage

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:10:23 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:26:36 +0900
> Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > When we look into pagemap using page-types with option -p, the value
> > of pfn for hugepages looks wrong (see below.)
> > This is because pte was evaluated only once for one vma
> > although it should be updated for each hugepage. This patch fixes it.
> > 
> > $ page-types -p 3277 -Nl -b huge
> > voffset   offset  len     flags
> > 7f21e8a00 11e400  1       ___U___________H_G________________
> > 7f21e8a01 11e401  1ff     ________________TG________________
> > 7f21e8c00 11e400  1       ___U___________H_G________________
> > 7f21e8c01 11e401  1ff     ________________TG________________
> >              ^^^
> >              should not be the same
> > 
> > With this patch applied:
> > 
> > $ page-types -p 3386 -Nl -b huge
> > voffset   offset   len    flags
> > 7fec7a600 112c00   1      ___UD__________H_G________________
> > 7fec7a601 112c01   1ff    ________________TG________________
> > 7fec7a800 113200   1      ___UD__________H_G________________
> > 7fec7a801 113201   1ff    ________________TG________________
> >              ^^^
> >              OK
> > 
> Hmm. Is this bug ? To me, it's just shown in hugepage's pagesize, by design.
> 
I'm sorry it seems this is bugfix.

But, this means hugeltb_entry() is not called per hugetlb entry...isn't it ?

Why hugetlb_entry() cannot be called per hugeltb entry ? Don't we need a code
for a case as pmd_size != hugetlb_size in walk_page_range() for generic fix ?

Thanks,
-Kame

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>

[Index of Archives]     [Linux ARM Kernel]     [Linux ARM]     [Linux Omap]     [Fedora ARM]     [IETF Annouce]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux]     [Linux OMAP]     [Linux MIPS]     [ECOS]     [Asterisk Internet PBX]     [Linux API]