From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF3A60021B for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:39:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:39:28 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm hugetlb x86: add hugepage support to pagemap Message-Id: <20091208143928.f3aa0ad2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <4B1CB5D6.9080007@ah.jp.nec.com> References: <4B1CB5D6.9080007@ah.jp.nec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com Cc: LKML , linux-mm , hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk, ak@linux.intel.com, Wu Fengguang List-ID: On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:59:18 +0900 Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > Most callers of pmd_none_or_clear_bad() check whether the target > page is in a hugepage or not, but mincore() and walk_page_range() do > not check it. So if we read /proc/pid/pagemap for the hugepage > on x86 machine, the hugepage memory is leaked as shown below. > This patch fixes it by extending pagemap interface to support hugepages. > > I split this fix into two patches. The first patch just adds the check > for hugepages, and the second patch adds a new member to struct mm_walk > to handle the hugepages. I kind of dislike the practice of putting all the changelog in patch [0/n] and then leaving the patches themselves practically unchangelogged. Because a) Someone (ie: me) needs to go and shuffle all the text around so that the information gets itself into the git record. We don't add changelog-only commits to git! b) Someone (ie: me) might decide to backport a subset of the patches into -stable. Now someone (ie: me) needs to carve up the changelogs so that the pieces which go into -stable still make standalone sense. I'm not sure that I did this particularly well in this case. Oh well. Please confirm that mm-hugetlb-fix-hugepage-memory-leak-in-walk_page_range.patch is suitable for a -stable backport without inclusion of mm-hugetlb-add-hugepage-support-to-pagemap.patch. I think it is. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org