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hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow()
authorChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Thu, 10 May 2012 20:01:44 +0000 (13:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 10 May 2012 22:06:44 +0000 (15:06 -0700)
commitf987d946b8dad8cc774a27eed3b76f77ad505a92
treed19a02785d8a5793abefb0ec3edb435c77e96a7e
parent022b24d0d47239f75f6c42ce696f06c243caab12
hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow()

Commit 091e0c2138269 ("hugetlb: fix race condition in hugetlb_fault()")
added code to avoid a race condition by elevating the page refcount in
hugetlb_fault() while calling hugetlb_cow().

However, one code path in hugetlb_cow() includes an assertion that the
page count is 1, whereas it may now also have the value 2 in this path.

The consensus is that this BUG_ON has served its purpose, so rather than
extending it to cover both cases, we just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.0.29+, 3.2.16+, 3.3.3+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/hugetlb.c