linux/arch/x86/mm
Hugh Dickins aeed5fce37 x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning
Fix warning from pmd_bad() at bootup on a HIGHMEM64G HIGHPTE x86_32.

That came from 9fc34113f6 x86: debug pmd_bad();
but we understand now that the typecasting was wrong for PAE in the previous
version: pagetable pages above 4GB looked bad and stopped Arjan from booting.

And revert that cded932b75 x86: fix pmd_bad
and pud_bad to support huge pages.  It was the wrong way round: we shouldn't
weaken every pmd_bad and pud_bad check to let huge pages slip through - in
part they check that we _don't_ have a huge page where it's not expected.

Put the x86 pmd_bad() and pud_bad() definitions back to what they have long
been: they can be improved (x86_32 should use PTE_MASK, to stop PAE thinking
junk in the upper word is good; and x86_64 should follow x86_32's stricter
comparison, to stop thinking any subset of required bits is good); but that
should be a later patch.

Fix Hans' good observation that follow_page() will never find pmd_huge()
because that would have already failed the pmd_bad test: test pmd_huge in
between the pmd_none and pmd_bad tests.  Tighten x86's pmd_huge() check?
No, once it's a hugepage entry, it can get quite far from a good pmd: for
example, PROT_NONE leaves it with only ACCESSED of the KERN_PGTABLE bits.

However... though follow_page() contains this and another test for huge
pages, so it's nice to keep it working on them, where does it actually get
called on a huge page?  get_user_pages() checks is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) to
to call alternative hugetlb processing, as does unmap_vmas() and others.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Earlier-version-tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-06 13:08:58 -07:00
..
Makefile x86: add common mm/pgtable.c 2008-04-24 23:57:30 +02:00
discontig_32.c x86: undo visws/numaq build changes 2008-05-04 20:04:45 +02:00
dump_pagetables.c "make namespacecheck" fixes 2008-04-24 23:15:44 +02:00
extable.c x86: unify extable_{32|64}.c 2008-01-30 13:31:41 +01:00
fault.c x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK 2008-04-17 17:41:33 +02:00
highmem_32.c x86: unexport kmap_atomic_to_page 2008-04-30 23:15:34 +02:00
hugetlbpage.c x86: stricter check in follow_huge_addr() 2008-03-27 16:08:45 +01:00
init_32.c hotplug-memory: make online_page() common 2008-04-28 08:58:17 -07:00
init_64.c hotplug-memory: make online_page() common 2008-04-28 08:58:17 -07:00
ioremap.c x86: ioremap ram check fix 2008-04-30 23:15:35 +02:00
k8topology_64.c acpi: get boot_cpu_id as early for k8_scan_nodes 2008-04-26 23:41:04 +02:00
mmap.c x86: unify mmap_{32|64}.c 2008-01-30 13:31:10 +01:00
numa_64.c x86_64: fix setup_node_bootmem to support big mem excluding with memmap 2008-04-26 22:51:08 +02:00
pageattr-test.c x86: remove over noisy debug printk 2008-02-11 11:24:24 -08:00
pageattr.c x86 PAT: fix performance drop for glx, use UC minus for ioremap(), ioremap_nocache() and pci_mmap_page_range() 2008-04-30 23:15:35 +02:00
pat.c x86: PAT fix 2008-04-28 08:15:16 -07:00
pgtable.c x86: unify pgd ctor/dtor 2008-04-24 23:57:31 +02:00
pgtable_32.c x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning 2008-05-06 13:08:58 -07:00
srat_64.c "make namespacecheck" fixes 2008-04-24 23:15:44 +02:00