Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 May 2008 09:33:52 -0700 | From | Nishanth Aravamudan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning |
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On 08.05.2008 [18:19:25 +0200], Hans Rosenfeld wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:51:22AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > Is there anything in your dmesg? > > mm/memory.c:127: bad pmd ffff810076801040(80000000720000e7). > > > There was a discussion on LKML in the last couple of days about > > pmd_bad() triggering on huge pages. Perhaps we're clearing the mapping > > with the pmd_none_or_clear_bad(), and *THAT* is leaking the page. > > That makes sense. I remember that explicitly munmapping the huge page > would still work, but it doesn't. I don't quite remember what I did back > then to test this, but I probably made some mistake there that led me to > some false conclusions.
So this seems to lend credence to Dave's hypothesis. Without, as you were trying before, teaching pagemap all about hugepages, what are our options?
Can we just skip over the current iteration of the PMD loop (would we need something similar for the PTE loop for power?) if pmd_huge(pmd)?
Thanks, Nish
-- Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> IBM Linux Technology Center
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