[PATCH] unevictable mlocked pages: initialize mm member ofmunlock mm_walk structure

[Lee Schermerhorn]

was: Re: [Bad page] trying to free locked page? (Re: [PATCH][RFC] fix
kernel BUG at mm/migrate.c:719! in 2.6.26-rc5-mm3)

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 14:29 -0400, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:15 +0900, Daisuke Nishimura wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:03:14 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:47:09 +0900
> > > Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:35:01 +0900, Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Hi.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I got this bug while migrating pages only a few times
> > > > > via memory_migrate of cpuset.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Unfortunately, even if this patch is applied,
> > > > > I got bad_page problem after hundreds times of page migration
> > > > > (I'll report it in another mail).
> > > > > But I believe something like this patch is needed anyway.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I got bad_page after hundreds times of page migration.
> > > > It seems that a locked page is being freed.
> 
> I'm seeing *mlocked* pages [PG_mlocked] being freed now with my stress
> load, with just the "if(!page->mapping) { } clause removed, as proposed
> in your rfc patch in previous mail.  Need to investigate this...
> 
<snip>

This [freeing of mlocked pages] also occurs in unpatched 26-rc5-mm3.

Fixed by the following:

PATCH:  fix munlock page table walk - now requires 'mm'

Against 2.6.26-rc5-mm3.

Incremental fix for: mlock-mlocked-pages-are-unevictable-fix.patch 

Initialize the 'mm' member of the mm_walk structure, else the
page table walk doesn't occur, and mlocked pages will not be
munlocked.  This is visible in the vmstats:  

	noreclaim_pgs_munlocked - should equal noreclaim_pgs_mlocked
	  less (nr_mlock + noreclaim_pgs_cleared), but is always zero 
	  [munlock_vma_page() never called]

	noreclaim_pgs_mlockfreed - should be zero [for debug only],
	  but == noreclaim_pgs_mlocked - (nr_mlock + noreclaim_pgs_cleared)


Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@xxxxxx>

 mm/mlock.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm3/mm/mlock.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm3.orig/mm/mlock.c	2008-06-17 15:20:57.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm3/mm/mlock.c	2008-06-17 15:23:17.000000000 -0400
@@ -318,6 +318,8 @@ static void __munlock_vma_pages_range(st
 	VM_BUG_ON(start < vma->vm_start);
 	VM_BUG_ON(end > vma->vm_end);
 
+	munlock_page_walk.mm = mm;
+
 	lru_add_drain_all();	/* push cached pages to LRU */
 	walk_page_range(start, end, &munlock_page_walk);
 	lru_add_drain_all();	/* to update stats */



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