The patch titled Subject: hugetlbfs: add swap entry check in follow_hugetlb_page() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was hugetlbfs-add-swap-entry-check-in-follow_hugetlb_page.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: hugetlbfs: add swap entry check in follow_hugetlb_page() With applying the previous patch "hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB)" to reenable hugepage coredump, if a memory error happens on a hugepage and the affected processes try to access the error hugepage, we hit VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) <= 0) in get_page(). The reason for this bug is that coredump-related code doesn't recognise "hugepage hwpoison entry" with which a pmd entry is replaced when a memory error occurs on a hugepage. In other words, physical address information is stored in different bit layout between hugepage hwpoison entry and pmd entry, so follow_hugetlb_page() which is called in get_dump_page() returns a wrong page from a given address. The expected behavior is like this: absent is_swap_pte FOLL_DUMP Expected behavior ------------------------------------------------------------------- true false false hugetlb_fault false true false hugetlb_fault false false false return page true false true skip page (to avoid allocation) false true true hugetlb_fault false false true return page With this patch, we can call hugetlb_fault() and take proper actions (we wait for migration entries, fail with VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE for hwpoisoned entries,) and as the result we can dump all hugepages except for hwpoisoned ones. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.34+?] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlbfs-add-swap-entry-check-in-follow_hugetlb_page mm/hugetlb.c --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlbfs-add-swap-entry-check-in-follow_hugetlb_page +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -2961,7 +2961,17 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struc break; } - if (absent || + /* + * We need call hugetlb_fault for both hugepages under migration + * (in which case hugetlb_fault waits for the migration,) and + * hwpoisoned hugepages (in which case we need to prevent the + * caller from accessing to them.) In order to do this, we use + * here is_swap_pte instead of is_hugetlb_entry_migration and + * is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned. This is because it simply covers + * both cases, and because we can't follow correct pages + * directly from any kind of swap entries. + */ + if (absent || is_swap_pte(huge_ptep_get(pte)) || ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_write(huge_ptep_get(pte)))) { int ret; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are hwpoison-check-dirty-flag-to-match-against-clean-page.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html