From: Adam Litke For demand faulting, we cannot assume that the page tables will be populated. Do what the rest of the architectures do and test p?d_present() while walking down the page table. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c~hugetlb-check-pd_present-in-huge_pte_offset arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c --- 25/arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c~hugetlb-check-pd_present-in-huge_pte_offset Mon Aug 29 15:48:06 2005 +++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c Mon Aug 29 15:48:06 2005 @@ -46,8 +46,11 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_offset(struct mm_struct pmd_t *pmd = NULL; pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr); - pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr); - pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); + if (pgd_present(*pgd)) { + pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr); + if (pud_present(*pud)) + pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); + } return (pte_t *) pmd; } _