[PATCH 31/70] mm compaction: fix of improper cache flush in migration code
From: Luis Henriques
Date: Tue Jun 04 2013 - 10:18:44 EST
3.5.7.14 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit c2cc499c5bcf9040a738f49e8051b42078205748 upstream.
Page 'new' during MIGRATION can't be flushed with flush_cache_page().
Using flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pfn) is justified only if the page is
already placed in process page table, and that is done right after
flush_cache_page(). But without it the arch function has no knowledge
of process PTE and does nothing.
Besides that, flush_cache_page() flushes an application cache page, but
the kernel has a different page virtual address and dirtied it.
Replace it with flush_dcache_page(new) which is the proper usage.
The old page is flushed in try_to_unmap_one() before migration.
This bug takes place in Sead3 board with M14Kc MIPS CPU without cache
aliasing (but Harvard arch - separate I and D cache) in tight memory
environment (128MB) each 1-3days on SOAK test. It fails in cc1 during
kernel build (SIGILL, SIGBUS, SIGSEG) if CONFIG_COMPACTION is switched
ON.
Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <yegoshin@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/migrate.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 2e03986..65cc229 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static int remove_migration_pte(struct page *new, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pte = arch_make_huge_pte(pte, vma, new, 0);
}
#endif
- flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pte_pfn(pte));
+ flush_dcache_page(new);
set_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, pte);
if (PageHuge(new)) {
--
1.8.1.2
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