On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 06:09:02PM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote: > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c > index d3a6713048a2..09e79785c019 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c > @@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_offset(struct mm_struct *mm, > pgd_t *pgd; > pud_t *pud; > pmd_t *pmd; > + pte_t *pte; > > pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr); > pr_debug("%s: addr:0x%lx pgd:%p\n", __func__, addr, pgd); > @@ -217,19 +218,29 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_offset(struct mm_struct *mm, > return NULL; > > pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr); > - if (pud_none(*pud)) > + if (pud_none(*pud) && sz != PUD_SIZE) > return NULL; > /* swap or huge page */ > if (!pud_present(*pud) || pud_huge(*pud)) > return (pte_t *)pud; > /* table; check the next level */ So if sz == PUD_SIZE and we have pud_none(*pud) == true, it returns the pud. Isn't this different from what you proposed for the generic huge_pte_offset()? [1] > > + if (sz == CONT_PMD_SIZE) > + addr &= CONT_PMD_MASK; > + > pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); > - if (pmd_none(*pmd)) > + if (pmd_none(*pmd) && > + !(sz == PMD_SIZE || sz == CONT_PMD_SIZE)) > return NULL; Again, if sz == PMD_SIZE, you no longer return NULL. The generic proposal in [1] looks like: if (pmd_none(*pmd)) return NULL; and that's even when sz == PMD_SIZE. Anyway, I think we need to push for [1] again to be accepted before we go ahead with these changes. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725154114.24131-2-punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx -- Catalin -- 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>