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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2007-10-04 16:56:06 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-04 10:13:09 -0700
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Fix sys_remap_file_pages BUG at highmem.c:15!
Gurudas Pai reports kernel BUG at arch/i386/mm/highmem.c:15! below sys_remap_file_pages, while running Oracle database test on x86 in 6GB RAM: kunmap thinks we're in_interrupt because the preempt count has wrapped. That's because __do_fault expected to unmap page_table, but one of its two callers do_nonlinear_fault already unmapped it: let do_linear_fault unmap it first too, and then there's no need to pass the page_table arg down. Why have we been so slow to notice this? Probably through forgetting that the mapping_cap_account_dirty test means that sys_remap_file_pages nowadays only goes the full nonlinear vma route on a few memory-backed filesystems like ramfs, tmpfs and hugetlbfs. [ It also depends on CONFIG_HIGHPTE, so it becomes even harder to trigger in practice. Many who have need of large memory have probably migrated to x86-64.. Problem introduced by commit d0217ac04ca6591841e5665f518e38064f4e65bd ("mm: fault feedback #1") -- Linus ] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: gurudas pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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