2 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index e670b0d13fe0..42cb7d70f9ac 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -155,11 +155,24 @@ static inline void set_file_hugepages(struct file *file)
 {
         file->f_op = &hugetlbfs_file_operations;
 }
+
+static inline int valid_hugetlb_file_off(struct vm_area_struct *vma, 
+                                          unsigned long address) 
+{
+        struct inode *inode = vma->vm_file->f_dentry->d_inode;
+        loff_t file_off = address - vma->vm_start;
+        
+        file_off += (vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT);
+        
+        return (file_off < inode->i_size);
+}
+
 #else /* !CONFIG_HUGETLBFS */
 
 #define is_file_hugepages(file)         0
 #define set_file_hugepages(file)        BUG()
 #define hugetlb_zero_setup(size)        ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS)
+#define valid_hugetlb_file_off(vma, address)    0
 
 #endif /* !CONFIG_HUGETLBFS */
 
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index ae8161f1f459..8c88b973abc5 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2045,8 +2045,18 @@ int __handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct * vma,
 
         inc_page_state(pgfault);
 
-        if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
-                return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; /* mapping truncation does this. */
+        if (unlikely(is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))) {
+                if (valid_hugetlb_file_off(vma, address))
+                        /* We get here only if there was a stale(zero) TLB entry 
+                         * (because of  HW prefetching). 
+                         * Low-level arch code (if needed) should have already
+                         * purged the stale entry as part of this fault handling.  
+                         * Here we just return.
+                         */
+                        return VM_FAULT_MINOR; 
+                else
+                        return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; /* mapping truncation does this. */
+        }
 
         /*
          * We need the page table lock to synchronize with kswapd