[PATCH] hugetlb: add comment explaining reasons for Bus Errors
I just spent some time researching a Bus Error. Turns out that the huge
page fault handler can return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS for various conditions where
no huge page is available.
Add a note explaining the reasoning in the source.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index b21d78c..ceb3ebb 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -444,6 +444,15 @@
page = alloc_huge_page(vma, address);
if (!page) {
hugetlb_put_quota(mapping);
+ /*
+ * No huge pages available. So this is an OOM
+ * condition but we do not want to trigger the OOM
+ * killer, so we return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS.
+ *
+ * A program using hugepages may fault with Bus Error
+ * because no huge pages are available in the cpuset, per
+ * memory policy or because all are in use!
+ */
goto out;
}