Re: [kernel,v2] powerpc/iommu: Do not call PageTransHuge() on tail pages

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Wed Apr 19 2017 - 18:04:35 EST


On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 07:54:57 UTC, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> The CMA pages migration code does not support compound pages at
> the moment so it performs few tests before proceeding to actual page
> migration.
>
> One of the tests - PageTransHuge() - has VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail()) as
> it is designed to be called on head pages only. Since we also test for
> PageCompound(), and it contains PageTail() and PageHead(), we can
> simplify the check by leaving just PageCompound() and therefore avoid
> possible VM_BUG_ON_PAGE.
>
> Fixes: 2e5bbb5461f1 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Migrate pinned pages out of CMA")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.9+
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/e889e96e98e8da97bd39e46b725361

cheers