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On powerpc we allocate page table pages from slab caches of different sizes. Currently we have a constructor that zeroes out the objects when we allocate them for the first time. We expect the objects to be zeroed out when we free the the object back to slab cache. This happens in the unmap path. For hugetlb pages we call huge_pte_get_and_clear() to do that. With the current configuration of page table size, both PUD and PGD level tables are allocated from the same slab cache. At the PUD level, we use the second half of the table to store the slot information. But we never clear that when unmapping. When such a freed object is then allocated for a PGD page, the second half of the page table page will not be zeroed as expected. This results in a kernel crash. Fix it by always clearing PGD pages when they're allocated. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [mpe: Change log wording and formatting, add whitespace] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.