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fix kernel panic on memory hotplug

Yasuaki Ishimatsu linux-mm lkml 1 version In review

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#Subject and filesSizeRepliesApplied
1/2x86,mem-hotplug: pass sync_global_pgds() a correct argument in remove_pagetable()arch/x86/mm/init_64.c+5 -42 replies
2/2x86,mem-hotplug: modify PGD entry when removing memoryarch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h arch/x86/mm/fault.c arch/x86/mm/init_64.c+22 -104 replies

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2/2A-b

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Cover letter [PATCH 0/2] fix kernel panic on memory hotplug

When hot-adding memory after hot-removing memory, following call traces are shown:

kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/init_64.c:206!
...

 [<ffffffff815e0c80>] kernel_physical_mapping_init+0x1b2/0x1d2
 [<ffffffff815ced94>] init_memory_mapping+0x1d4/0x380
 [<ffffffff8104aebd>] arch_add_memory+0x3d/0xd0
 [<ffffffff815d03d9>] add_memory+0xb9/0x1b0
 [<ffffffff81352415>] acpi_memory_device_add+0x1af/0x28e
 [<ffffffff81325dc4>] acpi_bus_device_attach+0x8c/0xf0
 [<ffffffff813413b9>] acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0xc8/0x17f
 [<ffffffff81325d38>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0xb7/0xb7
 [<ffffffff81325d38>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0xb7/0xb7
 [<ffffffff813418ed>] acpi_walk_namespace+0x95/0xc5
 [<ffffffff81326b4c>] acpi_bus_scan+0x9a/0xc2
 [<ffffffff81326bff>] acpi_scan_bus_device_check+0x8b/0x12e
 [<ffffffff81326cb5>] acpi_scan_device_check+0x13/0x15
 [<ffffffff81320122>] acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x25/0x32
 [<ffffffff8107e02b>] process_one_work+0x17b/0x460
 [<ffffffff8107edfb>] worker_thread+0x11b/0x400
 [<ffffffff8107ece0>] ? rescuer_thread+0x400/0x400
 [<ffffffff81085aef>] kthread+0xcf/0xe0
 [<ffffffff81085a20>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
 [<ffffffff815fc76c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
 [<ffffffff81085a20>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140

The patch-sets fix the issue. The detailed descriptions are written to the header of each patch.

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