The patch titled Subject: dax: Split pmd map when fallback on COW has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was dax-split-pmd-map-when-fallback-on-cow.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx> Subject: dax: Split pmd map when fallback on COW An infinite loop of PMD faults was observed when attempted to mlock() a private read-only PMD mmap'd range of a DAX file. __dax_pmd_fault() simply returns with VM_FAULT_FALLBACK when falling back to PTE on COW. However, __handle_mm_fault() returns without falling back to handle_pte_fault() because a PMD map is present in this case. Change __dax_pmd_fault() to split the PMD map, if present, before returning with VM_FAULT_FALLBACK. Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dax.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/dax.c~dax-split-pmd-map-when-fallback-on-cow fs/dax.c --- a/fs/dax.c~dax-split-pmd-map-when-fallback-on-cow +++ a/fs/dax.c @@ -578,8 +578,10 @@ int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struc return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK; /* Fall back to PTEs if we're going to COW */ - if (write && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) + if (write && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) { + split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, address); return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK; + } /* If the PMD would extend outside the VMA */ if (pmd_addr < vma->vm_start) return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from toshi.kani@xxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html