The patch titled
Subject: huegtlbfs-fix-races-and-page-leaks-during-migration-update-2
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
huegtlbfs-fix-races-and-page-leaks-during-migration-update-2.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/huegtlbfs-fix-races-and-page-leaks-during-migration-update-2.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/huegtlbfs-fix-races-and-page-leaks-during-migration-update-2.patch
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From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: huegtlbfs-fix-races-and-page-leaks-during-migration-update-2
update comment and changelog
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/420bcfd6-158b-38e4-98da-26d0cd85bd01@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~huegtlbfs-fix-races-and-page-leaks-during-migration-update-2
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3863,7 +3863,11 @@ retry:
spin_unlock(ptl);
- /* Make newly allocated pages active */
+ /*
+ * Only make newly allocated pages active. Existing pages found
+ * in the pagecache could be !page_huge_active() if they have been
+ * isolated for migration.
+ */
if (new_page)
set_page_huge_active(page);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx are
huegtlbfs-fix-races-and-page-leaks-during-migration.patch
huegtlbfs-fix-races-and-page-leaks-during-migration-update.patch
huegtlbfs-fix-races-and-page-leaks-during-migration-update-2.patch
hugetlbfs-fix-potential-over-underflow-setting-node-specific-nr_hugepages.patch
