Re: + mm-reclaim-madv_free-pages.patch added to -mm tree
From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Mar 07 2017 - 04:59:05 EST
On Tue 07-03-17 14:55:51, Minchan Kim wrote:
[...]
> >From d42d296950c3bbce74afddcff307fa18eef305fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:48:37 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix lazyfree bug on check in try_to_unmap_one
>
> If a page is swapbacked, it means it should be in swapcache
> in try_to_unmap_one's path.
>
> If a page is !swapbacked, it mean it shouldn't be in swapcache
> in try_to_unmap_one's path.
>
> Check both two cases all at once and if it fails, warn and
> return SWAP_FAIL. Such bug never mean we should shut down
> the kernel.
>
> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
looks good to me
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/rmap.c | 9 +++++++--
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
> index 35acb83..9925f32 100644
> --- a/mm/rmap.c
> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> @@ -1413,8 +1413,13 @@ static int try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> * Store the swap location in the pte.
> * See handle_pte_fault() ...
> */
> - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageSwapCache(page) && PageSwapBacked(page),
> - page);
> + if (VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(PageSwapBacked(page) !=
> + PageSwapCache(page))) {
> + ret = SWAP_FAIL;
> + page_vma_mapped_walk_done(&pvmw);
> + break;
> +
> + }
>
> /* MADV_FREE page check */
> if (!PageSwapBacked(page)) {
> --
> 2.7.4
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs