Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Handle hypervisor pte insert failure in __hash_page_huge

From: Anton Blanchard <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:31:48 +1000

If the hypervisor gives us an error on a hugepage insert we panic. The
normal page code already handles this by returning an error instead and we end
calling low_hash_fault which will just kill the task if possible.

The patch below does a similar thing for the hugepage case.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <[email-masked]>
---

Index: powerpc.git/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage-hash64.c
===================================================================
--- powerpc.git.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage-hash64.c	2010-07-15 15:24:19.520742137 +1000
+++ powerpc.git/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage-hash64.c	2010-07-15 15:24:30.343243050 +1000
@@ -121,8 +121,15 @@ repeat:
                         }
 		}
 
-		if (unlikely(slot == -2))
-			panic("hash_huge_page: pte_insert failed\n");
+		/*
+		 * Hypervisor failure. Restore old pte and return -1
+		 * similar to __hash_page_*
+		 */
+		if (unlikely(slot == -2)) {
+			*ptep = __pte(old_pte);
+			err = -1;
+			goto out;
+		}
 
 		new_pte |= (slot << 12) & (_PAGE_F_SECOND | _PAGE_F_GIX);
 	}