[PATCH] hugetlb: add comment explaining reasons for Bus Errors

[platform/adaptation/renesas_rcar/renesas_kernel.git] / mm / hugetlb.c

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index b21d78c..ceb3ebb 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -444,6 +444,15 @@ retry:
                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;
                }