Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 4 authors, 2017-04-05

Re: [PATCH kernel] powerpc/iommu: Do not call PageTransHuge() on tail pages

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2017-03-28 10:46:01

Alexey Kardashevskiy [off-list ref] writes:
The CMA pages migration code does not support compound pages at
the moment so it performs few tests before proceeding to actual page
migration.

One of the tests - PageTransHuge() - has VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail()) as
it should be called on head pages. Since we also test for PageCompound(),
and it contains PageTail(), we can simply move PageCompound() in front
of PageTransHuge() and therefore avoid possible VM_BUG_ON_PAGE.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <redacted>
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Some of actual POWER8 systems do crash on that BUG_ON.
So this is:

Fixes: 2e5bbb5461f1 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Migrate pinned pages out of CMA")

And therefore:

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+

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cheers
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