[PATCH] Fix handling spurious page fault for hugetlb region
This reverts commit 3359b54c8c07338f3a863d1109b42eebccdcf379 and
replaces it with a cleaner version that is purely based on page table
operations, so that the synchronization between inode size and hugetlb
mappings becomes moot.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 8c88b97..1db40e9 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2045,18 +2045,8 @@
inc_page_state(pgfault);
- if (unlikely(is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))) {
- if (valid_hugetlb_file_off(vma, address))
- /* We get here only if there was a stale(zero) TLB entry
- * (because of HW prefetching).
- * Low-level arch code (if needed) should have already
- * purged the stale entry as part of this fault handling.
- * Here we just return.
- */
- return VM_FAULT_MINOR;
- else
- return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; /* mapping truncation does this. */
- }
+ if (unlikely(is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)))
+ return hugetlb_fault(mm, vma, address, write_access);
/*
* We need the page table lock to synchronize with kswapd