linux/arch/i386
Chen, Kenneth W 0e5c9f39f6 [PATCH] remove hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable() and fix huge_pte_alloc()
I don't think we need to call hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable() anymore
in 2.6.13 because of the rework with free_pgtables().  It now collect
all the pte page at the time of munmap.  It used to only collect page
table pages when entire one pgd can be freed and left with staled pte
pages.  Not anymore with 2.6.13.  This function will never be called
and We should turn it into a BUG_ON.

I also spotted two problems here, not Adam's fault :-)
(1) in huge_pte_alloc(), it looks like a bug to me that pud is not
    checked before calling pmd_alloc()
(2) in hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable(), it also missed a call to
    pmd_free_tlb.  I think a tlb flush is required to flush the mapping
    for the page table itself when we clear out the pmd pointing to a
    pte page.  However, since hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable() is never
    called, so it won't trigger the bug.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:46 -07:00
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boot [PATCH] coverity: i386: build.c: negative return to unsigned fix 2005-06-28 21:20:33 -07:00
crypto [PATCH] arch/i386/crypto/aes.c: fix sparse warnings 2005-06-25 16:24:59 -07:00
kernel [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
lib [PATCH] Remove i386_ksyms.c, almost. 2005-06-23 09:45:11 -07:00
mach-default [PATCH] x86_64: CPU hotplug support 2005-06-25 16:24:30 -07:00
mach-es7000 Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mach-generic Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mach-visws [PATCH] visws: linkage fix 2005-08-07 10:00:38 -07:00
mach-voyager [PATCH] i386 voyager: Add machine_shutdown 2005-08-06 12:54:57 -07:00
math-emu Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mm [PATCH] remove hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable() and fix huge_pte_alloc() 2005-09-05 00:05:46 -07:00
oprofile [PATCH] xen: x86: Rename usermode macro 2005-06-23 09:45:14 -07:00
pci [PATCH] x86: pci_assign_unassigned_resources() update 2005-08-30 11:14:48 -07:00
power [PATCH] MTRR suspend/resume cleanup 2005-07-07 18:23:42 -07:00
defconfig [PATCH] swsusp: kill config_pm_disk 2005-06-25 16:24:32 -07:00
Kconfig [PATCH] sparsemem extreme implementation 2005-09-05 00:05:38 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] i386: add missing Kconfig help text 2005-07-27 16:25:58 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] biarch compiler support for i386 2005-06-23 09:45:07 -07:00