From: Aneesh Kumar K.V Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 22:55:21 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mm/THP: use pmd_populate() to update the pmd with pgtable_t pointer X-Git-Tag: v3.2.46~31 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f45f28f4921a03d20d04f273dad68d30736304c6;p=pandora-kernel.git mm/THP: use pmd_populate() to update the pmd with pgtable_t pointer commit 7c3425123ddfdc5f48e7913ff59d908789712b18 upstream. We should not use set_pmd_at to update pmd_t with pgtable_t pointer. set_pmd_at is used to set pmd with huge pte entries and architectures like ppc64, clear few flags from the pte when saving a new entry. Without this change we observe bad pte errors like below on ppc64 with THP enabled. BUG: Bad page map in process ld mm=0xc000001ee39f4780 pte:7fc3f37848000001 pmd:c000001ec0000000 Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-diff-tree failed