On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:47:48 +1000
David Gibson <[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems commit fe1668ae5bf0145014c71797febd9ad5670d5d05 causes a
> hugepage regression. A git bisect points the finger at that commit
> for causing an oops in the 'alloc-instantiate-race' test from the
> libhugetlbfs testsuite.
>
> Still looking to determine the reason it breaks things.
>
It's assuming that unmap_hugepage_range() is always freeing these pages.
If the page is shared by another mapping, bad things will happen: the
threads fight over page->lru.
Doing
+ if (page_count(page) == 1)
list_add(&page->lru, &page_list);
might help. But then we miss the tlb flush in rare racy conditions.
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