On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:55:41PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > 0c176d5 (mm: hugetlb: fix pgoff computation when unmapping page > from vma) fixed pgoff calculation but it has replaced it by > vma_hugecache_offset which is not approapriate for offsets used for > vma_prio_tree_foreach because that one expects index in page units > rather than in huge_page_shift. > Using vma_hugecache_offset is not incorrect because the pgoff will fit > into the same vmas but it is confusing so the standard PAGE_SHIFT based > index calculation is used instead. I do think it's incorrect. The resulting index may not be too big, but it can be too small: assume hpage size of 2M and the address to unmap to be 0x200000. This is regular page index 512 and hpage index 1. If you have a VMA that maps the file only starting at the second huge page, that VMAs vm_pgoff will be 512 but you ask for offset 1 and miss it even though it does map the page of interest. hugetlb_cow() will try to unmap, miss the vma, and retry the cow until the allocation succeeds or the skipped vma(s) go away. Unless I missed something, this should not be deferred as a cleanup. -- 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>