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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>mm: hugetlbfs: fix hugetlbfs optimization</title>
<updated>2014-02-06T19:05:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-21T22:32:02+00:00</published>
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commit 27c73ae759774e63313c1fbfeb17ba076cea64c5 upstream.

Commit 7cb2ef56e6a8 ("mm: fix aio performance regression for database
caused by THP") can cause dereference of a dangling pointer if
split_huge_page runs during PageHuge() if there are updates to the
tail_page-&gt;private field.

Also it is repeating compound_head twice for hugetlbfs and it is running
compound_head+compound_trans_head for THP when a single one is needed in
both cases.

The new code within the PageSlab() check doesn't need to verify that the
THP page size is never bigger than the smallest hugetlbfs page size, to
avoid memory corruption.

A longstanding theoretical race condition was found while fixing the
above (see the change right after the skip_unlock label, that is
relevant for the compound_lock path too).

By re-establishing the _mapcount tail refcounting for all compound
pages, this also fixes the below problem:

  echo 0 &gt;/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages

  BUG: Bad page state in process bash  pfn:59a01
  page:ffffea000139b038 count:0 mapcount:10 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
  page flags: 0x1c00000000008000(tail)
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 6 PID: 2018 Comm: bash Not tainted 3.12.0+ #25
  Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x55/0x76
    bad_page+0xd5/0x130
    free_pages_prepare+0x213/0x280
    __free_pages+0x36/0x80
    update_and_free_page+0xc1/0xd0
    free_pool_huge_page+0xc2/0xe0
    set_max_huge_pages.part.58+0x14c/0x220
    nr_hugepages_store_common.isra.60+0xd0/0xf0
    nr_hugepages_store+0x13/0x20
    kobj_attr_store+0xf/0x20
    sysfs_write_file+0x189/0x1e0
    vfs_write+0xc5/0x1f0
    SyS_write+0x55/0xb0
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Pravin Shelar &lt;pshelar@nicira.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guillaume Morin &lt;guillaume@morinfr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit 27c73ae759774e63313c1fbfeb17ba076cea64c5 upstream.

Commit 7cb2ef56e6a8 ("mm: fix aio performance regression for database
caused by THP") can cause dereference of a dangling pointer if
split_huge_page runs during PageHuge() if there are updates to the
tail_page-&gt;private field.

Also it is repeating compound_head twice for hugetlbfs and it is running
compound_head+compound_trans_head for THP when a single one is needed in
both cases.

The new code within the PageSlab() check doesn't need to verify that the
THP page size is never bigger than the smallest hugetlbfs page size, to
avoid memory corruption.

A longstanding theoretical race condition was found while fixing the
above (see the change right after the skip_unlock label, that is
relevant for the compound_lock path too).

By re-establishing the _mapcount tail refcounting for all compound
pages, this also fixes the below problem:

  echo 0 &gt;/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages

  BUG: Bad page state in process bash  pfn:59a01
  page:ffffea000139b038 count:0 mapcount:10 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
  page flags: 0x1c00000000008000(tail)
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 6 PID: 2018 Comm: bash Not tainted 3.12.0+ #25
  Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x55/0x76
    bad_page+0xd5/0x130
    free_pages_prepare+0x213/0x280
    __free_pages+0x36/0x80
    update_and_free_page+0xc1/0xd0
    free_pool_huge_page+0xc2/0xe0
    set_max_huge_pages.part.58+0x14c/0x220
    nr_hugepages_store_common.isra.60+0xd0/0xf0
    nr_hugepages_store+0x13/0x20
    kobj_attr_store+0xf/0x20
    sysfs_write_file+0x189/0x1e0
    vfs_write+0xc5/0x1f0
    SyS_write+0x55/0xb0
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Pravin Shelar &lt;pshelar@nicira.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guillaume Morin &lt;guillaume@morinfr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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</entry>
<entry>
<title>futex: Take hugepages into account when generating futex_key</title>
<updated>2013-08-20T15:26:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Yi</name>
<email>wetpzy@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-25T13:19:31+00:00</published>
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commit 13d60f4b6ab5b702dc8d2ee20999f98a93728aec upstream.

The futex_keys of process shared futexes are generated from the page
offset, the mapping host and the mapping index of the futex user space
address. This should result in an unique identifier for each futex.

Though this is not true when futexes are located in different subpages
of an hugepage. The reason is, that the mapping index for all those
futexes evaluates to the index of the base page of the hugetlbfs
mapping. So a futex at offset 0 of the hugepage mapping and another
one at offset PAGE_SIZE of the same hugepage mapping have identical
futex_keys. This happens because the futex code blindly uses
page-&gt;index.

Steps to reproduce the bug:

1. Map a file from hugetlbfs. Initialize pthread_mutex1 at offset 0
   and pthread_mutex2 at offset PAGE_SIZE of the hugetlbfs
   mapping.

   The mutexes must be initialized as PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED because
   PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE mutexes are not affected by this issue as
   their keys solely depend on the user space address.

2. Lock mutex1 and mutex2

3. Create thread1 and in the thread function lock mutex1, which
   results in thread1 blocking on the locked mutex1.

4. Create thread2 and in the thread function lock mutex2, which
   results in thread2 blocking on the locked mutex2.

5. Unlock mutex2. Despite the fact that mutex2 got unlocked, thread2
   still blocks on mutex2 because the futex_key points to mutex1.

To solve this issue we need to take the normal page index of the page
which contains the futex into account, if the futex is in an hugetlbfs
mapping. In other words, we calculate the normal page mapping index of
the subpage in the hugetlbfs mapping.

Mappings which are not based on hugetlbfs are not affected and still
use page-&gt;index.

Thanks to Mel Gorman who provided a patch for adding proper evaluation
functions to the hugetlbfs code to avoid exposing hugetlbfs specific
details to the futex code.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi &lt;zhang.yi20@zte.com.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao &lt;jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn&gt;
Tested-by: Ma Chenggong &lt;ma.chenggong@zte.com.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: 'Mel Gorman' &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: 'Darren Hart' &lt;dvhart@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: 'Peter Zijlstra' &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/000101ce71a6%24a83c5880%24f8b50980%24@com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;mgalbraith@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit 13d60f4b6ab5b702dc8d2ee20999f98a93728aec upstream.

The futex_keys of process shared futexes are generated from the page
offset, the mapping host and the mapping index of the futex user space
address. This should result in an unique identifier for each futex.

Though this is not true when futexes are located in different subpages
of an hugepage. The reason is, that the mapping index for all those
futexes evaluates to the index of the base page of the hugetlbfs
mapping. So a futex at offset 0 of the hugepage mapping and another
one at offset PAGE_SIZE of the same hugepage mapping have identical
futex_keys. This happens because the futex code blindly uses
page-&gt;index.

Steps to reproduce the bug:

1. Map a file from hugetlbfs. Initialize pthread_mutex1 at offset 0
   and pthread_mutex2 at offset PAGE_SIZE of the hugetlbfs
   mapping.

   The mutexes must be initialized as PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED because
   PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE mutexes are not affected by this issue as
   their keys solely depend on the user space address.

2. Lock mutex1 and mutex2

3. Create thread1 and in the thread function lock mutex1, which
   results in thread1 blocking on the locked mutex1.

4. Create thread2 and in the thread function lock mutex2, which
   results in thread2 blocking on the locked mutex2.

5. Unlock mutex2. Despite the fact that mutex2 got unlocked, thread2
   still blocks on mutex2 because the futex_key points to mutex1.

To solve this issue we need to take the normal page index of the page
which contains the futex into account, if the futex is in an hugetlbfs
mapping. In other words, we calculate the normal page mapping index of
the subpage in the hugetlbfs mapping.

Mappings which are not based on hugetlbfs are not affected and still
use page-&gt;index.

Thanks to Mel Gorman who provided a patch for adding proper evaluation
functions to the hugetlbfs code to avoid exposing hugetlbfs specific
details to the futex code.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi &lt;zhang.yi20@zte.com.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao &lt;jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn&gt;
Tested-by: Ma Chenggong &lt;ma.chenggong@zte.com.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: 'Mel Gorman' &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: 'Darren Hart' &lt;dvhart@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: 'Peter Zijlstra' &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/000101ce71a6%24a83c5880%24f8b50980%24@com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;mgalbraith@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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</entry>
<entry>
<title>hugetlbfs: fix mmap failure in unaligned size request</title>
<updated>2013-05-19T17:54:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-07T23:18:13+00:00</published>
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commit af73e4d9506d3b797509f3c030e7dcd554f7d9c4 upstream.

The current kernel returns -EINVAL unless a given mmap length is
"almost" hugepage aligned.  This is because in sys_mmap_pgoff() the
given length is passed to vm_mmap_pgoff() as it is without being aligned
with hugepage boundary.

This is a regression introduced in commit 40716e29243d ("hugetlbfs: fix
alignment of huge page requests"), where alignment code is pushed into
hugetlb_file_setup() and the variable len in caller side is not changed.

To fix this, this patch partially reverts that commit, and adds
alignment code in caller side.  And it also introduces hstate_sizelog()
in order to get proper hstate to specified hugepage size.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56881

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=n]
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reported-by: &lt;iceman_dvd@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Truelove &lt;steven.truelove@utoronto.ca&gt;
Cc: Jianguo Wu &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit af73e4d9506d3b797509f3c030e7dcd554f7d9c4 upstream.

The current kernel returns -EINVAL unless a given mmap length is
"almost" hugepage aligned.  This is because in sys_mmap_pgoff() the
given length is passed to vm_mmap_pgoff() as it is without being aligned
with hugepage boundary.

This is a regression introduced in commit 40716e29243d ("hugetlbfs: fix
alignment of huge page requests"), where alignment code is pushed into
hugetlb_file_setup() and the variable len in caller side is not changed.

To fix this, this patch partially reverts that commit, and adds
alignment code in caller side.  And it also introduces hstate_sizelog()
in order to get proper hstate to specified hugepage size.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56881

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=n]
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reported-by: &lt;iceman_dvd@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Truelove &lt;steven.truelove@utoronto.ca&gt;
Cc: Jianguo Wu &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hugetlbfs: fix alignment of huge page requests</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T00:54:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Truelove</name>
<email>steven.truelove@utoronto.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-21T23:34:14+00:00</published>
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When calling shmget() with SHM_HUGETLB, shmget aligns the request size to
PAGE_SIZE, but this is not sufficient.

Modify hugetlb_file_setup() to align requests to the huge page size, and
to accept an address argument so that all alignment checks can be
performed in hugetlb_file_setup(), rather than in its callers.  Change
newseg() and mmap_pgoff() to match the new prototype and eliminate a now
redundant alignment check.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Steven Truelove &lt;steven.truelove@utoronto.ca&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When calling shmget() with SHM_HUGETLB, shmget aligns the request size to
PAGE_SIZE, but this is not sufficient.

Modify hugetlb_file_setup() to align requests to the huge page size, and
to accept an address argument so that all alignment checks can be
performed in hugetlb_file_setup(), rather than in its callers.  Change
newseg() and mmap_pgoff() to match the new prototype and eliminate a now
redundant alignment check.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Steven Truelove &lt;steven.truelove@utoronto.ca&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>hugepages: fix use after free bug in "quota" handling</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T00:54:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-21T23:34:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=90481622d75715bfcb68501280a917dbfe516029'/>
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hugetlbfs_{get,put}_quota() are badly named.  They don't interact with the
general quota handling code, and they don't much resemble its behaviour.
Rather than being about maintaining limits on on-disk block usage by
particular users, they are instead about maintaining limits on in-memory
page usage (including anonymous MAP_PRIVATE copied-on-write pages)
associated with a particular hugetlbfs filesystem instance.

Worse, they work by having callbacks to the hugetlbfs filesystem code from
the low-level page handling code, in particular from free_huge_page().
This is a layering violation of itself, but more importantly, if the
kernel does a get_user_pages() on hugepages (which can happen from KVM
amongst others), then the free_huge_page() can be delayed until after the
associated inode has already been freed.  If an unmount occurs at the
wrong time, even the hugetlbfs superblock where the "quota" limits are
stored may have been freed.

Andrew Barry proposed a patch to fix this by having hugepages, instead of
storing a pointer to their address_space and reaching the superblock from
there, had the hugepages store pointers directly to the superblock,
bumping the reference count as appropriate to avoid it being freed.
Andrew Morton rejected that version, however, on the grounds that it made
the existing layering violation worse.

This is a reworked version of Andrew's patch, which removes the extra, and
some of the existing, layering violation.  It works by introducing the
concept of a hugepage "subpool" at the lower hugepage mm layer - that is a
finite logical pool of hugepages to allocate from.  hugetlbfs now creates
a subpool for each filesystem instance with a page limit set, and a
pointer to the subpool gets added to each allocated hugepage, instead of
the address_space pointer used now.  The subpool has its own lifetime and
is only freed once all pages in it _and_ all other references to it (i.e.
superblocks) are gone.

subpools are optional - a NULL subpool pointer is taken by the code to
mean that no subpool limits are in effect.

Previous discussion of this bug found in:  "Fix refcounting in hugetlbfs
quota handling.". See:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/11/28 or
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&amp;m=126928970510627&amp;w=1

v2: Fixed a bug spotted by Hillf Danton, and removed the extra parameter to
alloc_huge_page() - since it already takes the vma, it is not necessary.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Barry &lt;abarry@cray.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan.kim@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;dhillf@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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hugetlbfs_{get,put}_quota() are badly named.  They don't interact with the
general quota handling code, and they don't much resemble its behaviour.
Rather than being about maintaining limits on on-disk block usage by
particular users, they are instead about maintaining limits on in-memory
page usage (including anonymous MAP_PRIVATE copied-on-write pages)
associated with a particular hugetlbfs filesystem instance.

Worse, they work by having callbacks to the hugetlbfs filesystem code from
the low-level page handling code, in particular from free_huge_page().
This is a layering violation of itself, but more importantly, if the
kernel does a get_user_pages() on hugepages (which can happen from KVM
amongst others), then the free_huge_page() can be delayed until after the
associated inode has already been freed.  If an unmount occurs at the
wrong time, even the hugetlbfs superblock where the "quota" limits are
stored may have been freed.

Andrew Barry proposed a patch to fix this by having hugepages, instead of
storing a pointer to their address_space and reaching the superblock from
there, had the hugepages store pointers directly to the superblock,
bumping the reference count as appropriate to avoid it being freed.
Andrew Morton rejected that version, however, on the grounds that it made
the existing layering violation worse.

This is a reworked version of Andrew's patch, which removes the extra, and
some of the existing, layering violation.  It works by introducing the
concept of a hugepage "subpool" at the lower hugepage mm layer - that is a
finite logical pool of hugepages to allocate from.  hugetlbfs now creates
a subpool for each filesystem instance with a page limit set, and a
pointer to the subpool gets added to each allocated hugepage, instead of
the address_space pointer used now.  The subpool has its own lifetime and
is only freed once all pages in it _and_ all other references to it (i.e.
superblocks) are gone.

subpools are optional - a NULL subpool pointer is taken by the code to
mean that no subpool limits are in effect.

Previous discussion of this bug found in:  "Fix refcounting in hugetlbfs
quota handling.". See:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/11/28 or
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&amp;m=126928970510627&amp;w=1

v2: Fixed a bug spotted by Hillf Danton, and removed the extra parameter to
alloc_huge_page() - since it already takes the vma, it is not necessary.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Barry &lt;abarry@cray.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan.kim@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;dhillf@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb.h</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T00:54:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-21T23:34:12+00:00</published>
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Make a couple of small cleanups to linux/include/hugetlb.h.  The
set_file_hugepages() function, which was not used anywhere is removed,
and the hugetlbfs_config and hugetlbfs_inode_info structures with its
HUGETLBFS_I helper function are moved into inode.c, the only place they
were used.

These structures are really linked to the hugetlbfs filesystem
specifically not to hugepage mm handling in general, so they belong in
the filesystem code not in a generally available header.

It would be nice to move the hugetlbfs_sb_info (superblock) structure in
there as well, but it's currently needed in a number of places via the
hstate_vma() and hstate_inode().

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Barry &lt;abarry@cray.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan.kim@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;dhillf@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Make a couple of small cleanups to linux/include/hugetlb.h.  The
set_file_hugepages() function, which was not used anywhere is removed,
and the hugetlbfs_config and hugetlbfs_inode_info structures with its
HUGETLBFS_I helper function are moved into inode.c, the only place they
were used.

These structures are really linked to the hugetlbfs filesystem
specifically not to hugepage mm handling in general, so they belong in
the filesystem code not in a generally available header.

It would be nice to move the hugetlbfs_sb_info (superblock) structure in
there as well, but it's currently needed in a number of places via the
hstate_vma() and hstate_inode().

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Barry &lt;abarry@cray.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan.kim@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;dhillf@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>hugetlb: remove dummy definitions of HPAGE_MASK and HPAGE_SIZE</title>
<updated>2011-11-19T11:15:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-19T10:33:57+00:00</published>
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Dummy, non-zero definitions for HPAGE_MASK and HPAGE_SIZE were added in
51c6f666fceb ("mm: ZAP_BLOCK causes redundant work") to avoid a divide
by zero in generic kernel code.

That code has since been removed, but probably should never have been
added in the first place: we don't want HPAGE_SIZE to act like PAGE_SIZE
for code that is working with hugepages, for example, when the
dependency on CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE has not been fulfilled.

Because hugepage size can differ from architecture to architecture, each
is required to have their own definitions for both HPAGE_MASK and
HPAGE_SIZE.  This is always done in arch/*/include/asm/page.h.

So, just remove the dummy and dangerous definitions since they are no
longer needed and reveals the correct dependencies.  Tested on
architectures using the definitions with allyesconfig: x86 (even with
thp), hppa, mips, powerpc, s390, sh3, sh4, sparc, and sparc64, and with
defconfig on ia64.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Dummy, non-zero definitions for HPAGE_MASK and HPAGE_SIZE were added in
51c6f666fceb ("mm: ZAP_BLOCK causes redundant work") to avoid a divide
by zero in generic kernel code.

That code has since been removed, but probably should never have been
added in the first place: we don't want HPAGE_SIZE to act like PAGE_SIZE
for code that is working with hugepages, for example, when the
dependency on CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE has not been fulfilled.

Because hugepage size can differ from architecture to architecture, each
is required to have their own definitions for both HPAGE_MASK and
HPAGE_SIZE.  This is always done in arch/*/include/asm/page.h.

So, just remove the dummy and dangerous definitions since they are no
longer needed and reveals the correct dependencies.  Tested on
architectures using the definitions with allyesconfig: x86 (even with
thp), hppa, mips, powerpc, s390, sh3, sh4, sparc, and sparc64, and with
defconfig on ia64.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hugetlb: add phys addr to struct huge_bootmem_page</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T03:57:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Becky Bruce</name>
<email>beckyb@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T00:11:50+00:00</published>
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This is needed on HIGHMEM systems - we don't always have a virtual
address so store the physical address and map it in as needed.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce &lt;beckyb@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is needed on HIGHMEM systems - we don't always have a virtual
address so store the physical address and map it in as needed.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce &lt;beckyb@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix build with !HUGETLBFS</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T19:03:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-26T19:03:50+00:00</published>
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I stupidly broke the case of CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=n when doing the
conversion to vm_flags_t in commit ca16d140af91 ("mm: don't access
vm_flags as 'int'").  And my 'allyesconfig' build didn't find it, for
obvious reasons..

Include &lt;linux/mm_types.h&gt; in &lt;linux/hugetlb.h&gt;.  The problem could have
been avoided by just turning the hugetlb_file_setup() error wrapper into
a macro, but mm_types.h is a reasonable include in this file.

Reported-by: Richard -rw- Weinberger &lt;richard.weinberger@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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I stupidly broke the case of CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=n when doing the
conversion to vm_flags_t in commit ca16d140af91 ("mm: don't access
vm_flags as 'int'").  And my 'allyesconfig' build didn't find it, for
obvious reasons..

Include &lt;linux/mm_types.h&gt; in &lt;linux/hugetlb.h&gt;.  The problem could have
been avoided by just turning the hugetlb_file_setup() error wrapper into
a macro, but mm_types.h is a reasonable include in this file.

Reported-by: Richard -rw- Weinberger &lt;richard.weinberger@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: don't access vm_flags as 'int'</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T16:20:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KOSAKI Motohiro</name>
<email>kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-26T10:16:19+00:00</published>
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The type of vma-&gt;vm_flags is 'unsigned long'. Neither 'int' nor
'unsigned int'. This patch fixes such misuse.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
[ Changed to use a typedef - we'll extend it to cover more cases
  later, since there has been discussion about making it a 64-bit
  type..                      - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The type of vma-&gt;vm_flags is 'unsigned long'. Neither 'int' nor
'unsigned int'. This patch fixes such misuse.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
[ Changed to use a typedef - we'll extend it to cover more cases
  later, since there has been discussion about making it a 64-bit
  type..                      - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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