hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow()
authorChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Thu, 10 May 2012 20:01:44 +0000 (13:01 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 20 May 2012 21:56:32 +0000 (22:56 +0100)
commita9760061391e46f56fb6a8636142dab39f345e9b
tree71b4e5f8737c1ca458d92f86d4ab7996d6f5ef48
parent8a2f7257ae6a7d1e1c87dd1ef146bd3e9c04e903
hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow()

commit 4998a6c0edce7fae9c0a5463f6ec3fa585258ee7 upstream.

Commit 66aebce747eaf ("hugetlb: fix race condition in hugetlb_fault()")
added code to avoid a race condition by elevating the page refcount in
hugetlb_fault() while calling hugetlb_cow().

However, one code path in hugetlb_cow() includes an assertion that the
page count is 1, whereas it may now also have the value 2 in this path.

The consensus is that this BUG_ON has served its purpose, so rather than
extending it to cover both cases, we just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
mm/hugetlb.c