1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

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