From d0eaf0bf76e1b01347f423280a9eff38d2e464df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Wright Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:00:02 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] drop hugepages fix, not applicable to -stable as is. --- ...ear_user_highpage-not-clear_highpage.patch | 39 ------------------- queue/series | 1 - 2 files changed, 40 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 queue/hugepages-need-clear_user_highpage-not-clear_highpage.patch diff --git a/queue/hugepages-need-clear_user_highpage-not-clear_highpage.patch b/queue/hugepages-need-clear_user_highpage-not-clear_highpage.patch deleted file mode 100644 index 9f8f6dc1fea..00000000000 --- a/queue/hugepages-need-clear_user_highpage-not-clear_highpage.patch +++ /dev/null @@ -1,39 +0,0 @@ -From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Tue Feb 7 13:06:55 2006 -Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:58:25 -0800 -From: akpm@osdl.org -To: torvalds@osdl.org -Cc: dwg@au1.ibm.com, stable@kernel.org, wli@holomorphy.com, - david@gibson.dropbear.id.au -Subject: [PATCH] Hugepages need clear_user_highpage() not clear_highpage() - -From: David Gibson - -When hugepages are newly allocated to a file in mm/hugetlb.c, we clear them -with a call to clear_highpage() on each of the subpages. We should be -using clear_user_highpage(): on powerpc, at least, clear_highpage() doesn't -correctly mark the page as icache dirty so if the page is executed shortly -after it's possible to get strange results. - -Signed-off-by: David Gibson -Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III -Cc: -Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton -Signed-off-by: Chris Wright ---- - - mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- - 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) - -Index: linux-2.6.15.3/mm/hugetlb.c -=================================================================== ---- linux-2.6.15.3.orig/mm/hugetlb.c -+++ linux-2.6.15.3/mm/hugetlb.c -@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ struct page *alloc_huge_page(void) - set_page_count(page, 1); - page[1].mapping = (void *)free_huge_page; - for (i = 0; i < (HPAGE_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE); ++i) -- clear_highpage(&page[i]); -+ clear_user_highpage(&page[i], addr); - return page; - } - diff --git a/queue/series b/queue/series index c942da41b99..7f6d79a35b3 100644 --- a/queue/series +++ b/queue/series @@ -20,4 +20,3 @@ bridge-netfilter-races-on-device-removal.patch bridge-fix-rcu-race-on-device-removal.patch emu10k1-fix-the-confliction-of-front-control.patch x86_64-dont-record-local-apic-ids-when-they-are-disabled-in-madt.patch -hugepages-need-clear_user_highpage-not-clear_highpage.patch -- 2.47.3