mm, hugetlb: fix huge_pte_alloc BUG_ON
Zhong Jiang has reported a BUG_ON from huge_pte_alloc hitting when he runs his database load with memory online and offline running in parallel. The reason is that huge_pmd_share might detect a shared pmd which is currently migrated and so it has migration pte which is !pte_huge. There doesn't seem to be any easy way to prevent from the race and in fact seeing the migration swap entry is not harmful. Both callers of huge_pte_alloc are prepared to handle them. copy_hugetlb_page_range will copy the swap entry and make it COW if needed. hugetlb_fault will back off and so the page fault is retries if the page is still under migration and waits for its completion in hugetlb_fault. That means that the BUG_ON is wrong and we should update it. Let's simply check that all present ptes are pte_huge instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160721074340.GA26398@dhcp22.suse.czSigned-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: zhongjiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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