Hi Hugh,
Sorry for not checking about this before. I am looking at a kernel
crash (BUG_ON()) on ppc64 with 4K page size. The reason we hit
BUG_ON() is beause we have pmd_same calling BUG_ON on 4K with hash
translation. We don't support THP with 4k page size and hash
translation.
Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
....
+
> +pte_t *pte_offset_map_nolock(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
> + unsigned long addr, spinlock_t **ptlp)
> +{
> + pmd_t pmdval;
> + pte_t *pte;
> +
> + pte = __pte_offset_map(pmd, addr, &pmdval);
> + if (likely(pte))
> + *ptlp = pte_lockptr(mm, &pmdval);
> + return pte;
> +}
> +
> +pte_t *__pte_offset_map_lock(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
> + unsigned long addr, spinlock_t **ptlp)
> +{
> + spinlock_t *ptl;
> + pmd_t pmdval;
> + pte_t *pte;
> +again:
> + pte = __pte_offset_map(pmd, addr, &pmdval);
> + if (unlikely(!pte))
> + return pte;
> + ptl = pte_lockptr(mm, &pmdval);
> + spin_lock(ptl);
> + if (likely(pmd_same(pmdval, pmdp_get_lockless(pmd)))) {
> + *ptlp = ptl;
> + return pte;
> + }
> + pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
> + goto again;
> +}
What is expected by that pmd_same check? We are holding pte lock
and not pmd lock. So contents of pmd can change.
-aneesh
