Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:43:58 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Hugepage bugfix |
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On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 12:23:12PM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > Currently the hugepage code stores the hugepage destructor in the > mapping field of the second of the compound pages. However, this > field is never cleared again, which causes tracebacks from > free_pages_check() if the hugepage is later destroyed by reducing the > number in /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages. This patch fixes the bug by > clearing the mapping field when the hugepage is freed.
Good catch; thanks.
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