Speculative cache pagecache lookups can elevate the refcount from under us, so avoid the false positive. If the refcount is < 2 we'll be notified by a VM_BUG_ON in put_page_testzero as there are two put_page(src_page) in a row before returning from this function. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 1598708..ad56497 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1814,7 +1814,6 @@ static void __collapse_huge_page_copy(pte_t *pte, struct page *page, src_page = pte_page(pteval); copy_user_highpage(page, src_page, address, vma); VM_BUG_ON(page_mapcount(src_page) != 1); - VM_BUG_ON(page_count(src_page) != 2); release_pte_page(src_page); /* * ptl mostly unnecessary, but preempt has to -- 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>