From: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@xxxxxxxxxx> Commit f41f2ed43ca5 ("mm: hugetlb: free the vmemmap pages associated with each HugeTLB page") add vmemmap_remap_pte to remap the tail pages as read-only to catch illegal write operation to the tail page. However this will lead to WARN_ON in arm64 in __check_racy_pte_update() since this may lead to dirty state cleaned. This check is introduced by commit 2f4b829c625e ("arm64: Add support for hardware updates of the access and dirty pte bits") and the initial check is as follow: BUG_ON(pte_write(*ptep) && !pte_dirty(pte)); Since we do need to mark this pte as read-only to catch illegal write operation to the tail pages, use set_pte to replace set_pte_at to bypass this check. The following shell command can be used to reproduce this WARN_ON in 6.1.0-rc1: echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap cat /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap echo 1024 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages mkdir -p /root/hugetlb mount none /root/hugetlb -t hugetlbfs fallocate -l 2g /root/hugetlb/xx & Here is the detail WARN_ON log: ------------[ cut here ]------------ __check_racy_pte_update: racy dirty state clearing: 0x0068000416899f03 -> 0x0060000416898f83 WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 394 at arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h:318 vmemmap_remap_pte+0x118/0x120 Modules linked in: CPU: 3 PID: 394 Comm: fallocate Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1 #224 Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 Call trace: vmemmap_remap_pte+0x118/0x120 vmemmap_remap_range+0x30c/0x560 hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize+0x158/0x408 __prep_new_huge_page+0x24/0x150 prep_new_huge_page+0x30/0x60 alloc_fresh_huge_page+0x1c4/0x1e0 alloc_surplus_huge_page+0xa0/0x168 alloc_huge_page+0x264/0x5b8 hugetlbfs_fallocate+0x294/0x680 vfs_fallocate+0x12c/0x568 ksys_fallocate+0x50/0xa0 __arm64_sys_fallocate+0x28/0x38 invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x110 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x68/0x128 do_el0_svc+0x34/0xd0 el0_svc+0x48/0xb8 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0 el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Fixes: f41f2ed43ca5 ("mm: hugetlb: free the vmemmap pages associated with each HugeTLB page") Signed-off-by: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c index ba2a2596fb4e..cb056265c31e 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static void vmemmap_remap_pte(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, struct page *page = pte_page(*pte); list_add_tail(&page->lru, walk->vmemmap_pages); - set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, entry); + set_pte(pte, entry); } /* -- 2.25.1