The patch titled Subject: mm/migrate: allow migrate_vma() to alloc new page on empty entry fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-migrate-allow-migrate_vma-to-alloc-new-page-on-empty-entry-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-migrate-allow-migrate_vma-to-alloc-new-page-on-empty-entry-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-migrate-allow-migrate_vma-to-alloc-new-page-on-empty-entry-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/migrate: allow migrate_vma() to alloc new page on empty entry fix Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410175103.1a534c7d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/migrate.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/migrate.c~mm-migrate-allow-migrate_vma-to-alloc-new-page-on-empty-entry-fix mm/migrate.c --- a/mm/migrate.c~mm-migrate-allow-migrate_vma-to-alloc-new-page-on-empty-entry-fix +++ a/mm/migrate.c @@ -2478,6 +2478,7 @@ static void migrate_vma_insert_page(stru struct mem_cgroup *memcg; spinlock_t *ptl; pgd_t *pgdp; + p4d_t *p4dp; pud_t *pudp; pmd_t *pmdp; pte_t *ptep; @@ -2488,7 +2489,10 @@ static void migrate_vma_insert_page(stru goto abort; pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr); - pudp = pud_alloc(mm, pgdp, addr); + p4dp = p4d_alloc(mm, pgdp, addr); + if (!p4dp) + goto abort; + pudp = pud_alloc(mm, p4dp, addr); if (!pudp) goto abort; pmdp = pmd_alloc(mm, pudp, addr); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-introduce-kvalloc-helpers-fix.patch mm-migrate-allow-migrate_vma-to-alloc-new-page-on-empty-entry-fix.patch -- 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