| Date | Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:28:28 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [186/262] powerpc: gup_hugepte() avoid freeing the head page too many times |
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3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
commit 8596468487e2062cae2aad56e973784e03959245 upstream.
We only taken "refs" pins on the head page not "*nr" pins.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c @@ -428,10 +428,9 @@ static noinline int gup_hugepte(pte_t *p if (unlikely(pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep))) { /* Could be optimized better */ - while (*nr) { + *nr -= refs; + while (refs--) put_page(head); - (*nr)--; - } } return 1;
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