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authorNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-05-06 12:50:00 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-05-06 13:04:58 -0700
commit457c1b27ed56ec472d202731b12417bff023594a (patch)
treeed0c71d5171f02401ff15825d9a939ba3879a356 /include/linux/hugetlb.h
parent93030d83b9e1079836d82b46ab3ec671b1fdb623 (diff)
hugetlb: ensure hugepage access is denied if hugepages are not supported
Currently, I am seeing the following when I `mount -t hugetlbfs /none /dev/hugetlbfs`, and then simply do a `ls /dev/hugetlbfs`. I think it's related to the fact that hugetlbfs is properly not correctly setting itself up in this state?: Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000031 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000245710 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries .... In KVM guests on Power, in a guest not backed by hugepages, we see the following: AnonHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 64 kB HPAGE_SHIFT == 0 in this configuration, which indicates that hugepages are not supported at boot-time, but this is only checked in hugetlb_init(). Extract the check to a helper function, and use it in a few relevant places. This does make hugetlbfs not supported (not registered at all) in this environment. I believe this is fine, as there are no valid hugepages and that won't change at runtime. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use pr_info(), per Mel] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build when HPAGE_SHIFT is undefined] Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/hugetlb.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/hugetlb.h10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 5b337cf8fb86..b65166de1d9d 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -412,6 +412,16 @@ static inline spinlock_t *huge_pte_lockptr(struct hstate *h,
return &mm->page_table_lock;
}
+static inline bool hugepages_supported(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * Some platform decide whether they support huge pages at boot
+ * time. On these, such as powerpc, HPAGE_SHIFT is set to 0 when
+ * there is no such support
+ */
+ return HPAGE_SHIFT != 0;
+}
+
#else /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
struct hstate {};
#define alloc_huge_page_node(h, nid) NULL