The current code wrongly called withdraw in the error path. But we haven't depoisted the page table yet in the only error path in that function. So for now remove that withdraw completely. If we take that "out:" branch, we should have vmf->prealloc_pte already pointing to the allocated page table. Fixes: "mm: THP page cache support for ppc64" Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 455c3e628d52..36c774f9259e 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3008,13 +3008,6 @@ static int do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page) ret = 0; count_vm_event(THP_FILE_MAPPED); out: - /* - * If we are going to fallback to pte mapping, do a - * withdraw with pmd lock held. - */ - if (arch_needs_pgtable_deposit() && ret == VM_FAULT_FALLBACK) - vmf->prealloc_pte = pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(vma->vm_mm, - vmf->pmd); spin_unlock(vmf->ptl); return ret; } -- 2.10.2 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>