From: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gu...@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 15:05:36 -0700
> 8M pages now allocate page tables till PMD level only. > So, when freeing page table for 8M hugepage backed region, > make sure we don't try to access non-existent PTE level. > > Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gu...@oracle.com> The manner in which you have submitted this change breaks bisectability. The "problem" you are fixing here is introduced by you in patch #1. You need to combine these two changes together, otherwise there is an intermediate state where the kernel is broken by your changes.