[PATCH] mm: hugepage accounting fix
2.6.15's hugepage faulting introduced huge_pages_needed accounting into
hugetlbfs: to count how many pages are already in cache, for spot check on
how far a new mapping may be allowed to extend the file. But it's muddled:
each hugepage found covers HPAGE_SIZE, not PAGE_SIZE. Once pages were
already in cache, it would overshoot, wrap its hugepages count backwards,
and so fail a harmless repeat mapping with -ENOMEM. Fixes the problem
found by Don Dupuis.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-By: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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