PF_NO_COMPOUND for PG_reserved assumes we don't use PG_reserved for compound pages. And we generally don't. But during allocation of gigantic pages we set PG_head before clearing PG_reserved and __ClearPageReserved() steps on the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(). The fix is trivial: set PG_head after PG_reserved. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Andrew, this patch can be folded into "page-flags: define PG_reserved behavior on compound pages". --- mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 6ecf61ffa65d..bd3f3e20313b 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1258,8 +1258,8 @@ static void prep_compound_gigantic_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order) /* we rely on prep_new_huge_page to set the destructor */ set_compound_order(page, order); - __SetPageHead(page); __ClearPageReserved(page); + __SetPageHead(page); for (i = 1; i < nr_pages; i++, p = mem_map_next(p, page, i)) { /* * For gigantic hugepages allocated through bootmem at -- 2.5.3 -- 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>