Commit 63028aa7 authored by Kiyoshi Ueda's avatar Kiyoshi Ueda Committed by Tony Luck

[IA64] page_not_present fault in region 5 is normal

When copying data from user-space to kernel-space by __copy_user(),
a page_not_present fault sometimes occurs at vmalloced kernel address
because of VHPT pre-fetching.

Ignore the page_not_present fault in ia64_do_page_fault() before
jumping into exception handlers.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
parent 4706df3d
......@@ -229,9 +229,6 @@ ia64_do_page_fault (unsigned long address, unsigned long isr, struct pt_regs *re
return;
}
if (ia64_done_with_exception(regs))
return;
/*
* Since we have no vma's for region 5, we might get here even if the address is
* valid, due to the VHPT walker inserting a non present translation that becomes
......@@ -242,6 +239,9 @@ ia64_do_page_fault (unsigned long address, unsigned long isr, struct pt_regs *re
if (REGION_NUMBER(address) == 5 && mapped_kernel_page_is_present(address))
return;
if (ia64_done_with_exception(regs))
return;
/*
* Oops. The kernel tried to access some bad page. We'll have to terminate things
* with extreme prejudice.
......
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