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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2012-01-20 14:34:21 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-23 08:38:48 -0800
commit245132643e1cfcd145bbc86a716c1818371fcb93 (patch)
treee5bf3cb56efedb059b1a68fd8efd37482131783b /ipc
parent85046579bde15e532983438f86b36856e358f417 (diff)
downloadlinux-245132643e1cfcd145bbc86a716c1818371fcb93.tar.gz
SHM_UNLOCK: fix Unevictable pages stranded after swap
Commit cc39c6a9bbde ("mm: account skipped entries to avoid looping in
find_get_pages") correctly fixed an infinite loop; but left a problem
that find_get_pages() on shmem would return 0 (appearing to callers to
mean end of tree) when it meets a run of nr_pages swap entries.

The only uses of find_get_pages() on shmem are via pagevec_lookup(),
called from invalidate_mapping_pages(), and from shmctl SHM_UNLOCK's
scan_mapping_unevictable_pages().  The first is already commented, and
not worth worrying about; but the second can leave pages on the
Unevictable list after an unusual sequence of swapping and locking.

Fix that by using shmem_find_get_pages_and_swap() (then ignoring the
swap) instead of pagevec_lookup().

But I don't want to contaminate vmscan.c with shmem internals, nor
shmem.c with LRU locking.  So move scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() into
shmem.c, renaming it shmem_unlock_mapping(); and rename
check_move_unevictable_page() to check_move_unevictable_pages(), looping
down an array of pages, oftentimes under the same lock.

Leave out the "rotate unevictable list" block: that's a leftover from
when this was used for /proc/sys/vm/scan_unevictable_pages, whose flawed
handling involved looking at pages at tail of LRU.

Was there significance to the sequence first ClearPageUnevictable, then
test page_evictable, then SetPageUnevictable here? I think not, we're
under LRU lock, and have no barriers between those.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [back to 3.1 but will need respins]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc')
-rw-r--r--ipc/shm.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index 854ab58e5f6e..b76be5bda6c2 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(shmctl, int, shmid, int, cmd, struct shmid_ds __user *, buf)
 		shp->mlock_user = NULL;
 		get_file(shm_file);
 		shm_unlock(shp);
-		scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(shm_file->f_mapping);
+		shmem_unlock_mapping(shm_file->f_mapping);
 		fput(shm_file);
 		goto out;
 	}