Re: [PATCH] mm/swap.c: clear PageActive before adding pages ontounevictable list (Re: 3.11.0-rc1: kernel BUG at mm/migrate.c:458 in pagemigration)

[Naoya Horiguchi]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:02:49PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
...
> > ---
> > From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:49:56 -0400
> > Subject: [PATCH] mm/swap.c: clear PageActive before adding pages onto
> >  unevictable list
> > 
> > As a result of v3.10-3600-g13f7f78 "mm: pagevec: defer deciding which LRU
> > to add a page to until pagevec drain time," pages on unevictable lists can
> > have both of PageActive and PageUnevictable set. This is not only confusing,
> > but also corrupts page migration and shrink_[in]active_list.
> > 
> > This patch fixes the problem by adding ClearPageActive before adding pages
> > into unevictable list. It also cleans up VM_BUG_ONs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.10
> 
> Looks good to me.
> 
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> One more patch related to the topic:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/140

Yes, that's why I added CC to you :)

Naoya
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