Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: call arch_prepare_hugepage() for surplus pages

[gerald_IMAP <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 13:32 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ---
> > 
> >  mm/hugetlb.c |    7 ++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Index: linux/mm/hugetlb.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux.orig/mm/hugetlb.c
> > +++ linux/mm/hugetlb.c
> > @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ static struct page *alloc_fresh_huge_pag
> >  		huge_page_order(h));
> >  	if (page) {
> >  		if (arch_prepare_hugepage(page)) {
> > -			__free_pages(page, HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER);
> > +			__free_pages(page, huge_page_order(h));
> 
> As Nick pointed out, this is an unrelated bugfix.  I changelogged it. 
> Really it should have been two patches.

Ok, thanks. I didn't see it as a bugfix because it doesn't make any
difference on s390, and nobody else is using arch_prepare_hugepage()
so far. But of course this may change, so I should have made two
patches.

> afaict the second fix is needed in 2.6.26.x (but not 2.6.25.x), but
> this patch is not applicable to 2.6.26.x.
> 
> So if you want this fix to be backported into 2.6.26.x, please send a
> suitable version of it to stable@kernel.org.

Right, this was missing from the beginning. It affects s390 only,
so I'll check if we need a backport.

Thanks,
Gerald


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