Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/thp/pagecache: Only withdraw page table after a successful deposit

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:04:27PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> The current code wrongly called withdraw in the error path. But we
> haven't depoisted the page table yet in the only error path in that
> function. So for now remove that withdraw completely. If we take
> that "out:" branch, we should have vmf->prealloc_pte already pointing
> to the allocated page table.
> 
> Fixes: "mm: THP page cache support for ppc64"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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 Kirill A. Shutemov