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SubjectRe: IA64 non-contiguous memory space bugs
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:31:59PM -0800, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> David Gibson wrote on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:14 PM
> > Second problem is in the hugepage logic in free_pgtables()
> > (mm/memory.c). As far as I can tell it's complete crap, and only
> > works by accident, for different accidental reasons on ppc64 and ia64,
> > the only archs that have a non-trivial is_hugepage_only_range().
> > Except that I'm not sure it does entirely work by accident on ia64:
> > suppose a process has a hugepage mapping that begins some way after
> > the beginning of the hugepage address range. Before
> > hugetlb_free_pgd_range() gets called on that area, it will be called
> > on the next normal page VMA down - but with an end address at the
> > beginning of the hugepage VMA and so extending into the hugepage
> > address range. I don't really understand the ia64 pagetable mapping
> > stuff well enough to tell if that's dangerous or not.
>
> I don't see any problem in the ia64 code. The start and end address is
> what the vma specified. Floor and ceiling is just a hint for free_pgtables()
> to free any left over page tables between vma holes (to prev and next).
> As far as I can tell, the code looks fine.

Ah, yes, I see now. free_pgd_range() only iterates through to end,
not ceiling so it should be fine.

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