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  1. Aug 25, 2006
  2. Aug 24, 2006
    • Adam Litke's avatar
      [POWERPC] hugepage BUG fix · c9169f87
      Adam Litke authored
      
      On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 08:22 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
      > kernel BUG in cache_free_debugcheck at mm/slab.c:2748!
      
      Alright, this one is only triggered when slab debugging is enabled.  The
      slabs are assumed to be aligned on a HUGEPTE_TABLE_SIZE boundary.  The free
      path makes use of this assumption and uses the lowest nibble to pass around
      an index into an array of kmem_cache pointers.  With slab debugging turned
      on, the slab is still aligned, but the "working" object pointer is not.
      This would break the assumption above that a full nibble is available for
      the PGF_CACHENUM_MASK.
      
      The following patch reduces PGF_CACHENUM_MASK to cover only the two least
      significant bits, which is enough to cover the current number of 4 pgtable
      cache types.  Then use this constant to mask out the appropriate part of
      the huge pte pointer.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      c9169f87
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