From: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxx> The s390 software large page emulation implements shared page tables by using page->index of the first tail page from a compound large page to store page table information. This is set up in arch_prepare_hugepage(), which is called from alloc_fresh_huge_page_node(). A similar call to arch_prepare_hugepage() is missing for surplus large pages that are allocated in alloc_buddy_huge_page(), which breaks the software emulation mode for (surplus) large pages on s390. This patch adds the missing call to arch_prepare_hugepage(). It will have no effect on other architectures where arch_prepare_hugepage() is a nop. Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/mm/hugetlb.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/mm/hugetlb.c +++ linux/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ static struct page *alloc_fresh_huge_pag huge_page_order(h)); if (page) { if (arch_prepare_hugepage(page)) { - __free_pages(page, HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER); + __free_pages(page, huge_page_order(h)); return NULL; } prep_new_huge_page(h, page, nid); @@ -665,6 +665,11 @@ static struct page *alloc_buddy_huge_pag __GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOWARN, huge_page_order(h)); + if (page && arch_prepare_hugepage(page)) { + __free_pages(page, huge_page_order(h)); + return NULL; + } + spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock); if (page) { /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html