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authorMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>2009-08-26 14:29:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-08-26 20:06:52 -0700
commit03ef83af528899aa339e42d8024b37e2f434fba4 (patch)
tree1a323ead874d690de79cd213d5231b4fc758979b /mm/vmscan.c
parentb62e408c05228f40e69bb38a48db8961cac6cd23 (diff)
downloadlinux-03ef83af528899aa339e42d8024b37e2f434fba4.tar.bz2
mm: fix for infinite churning of mlocked pages
An mlocked page might lose the isolatation race. This causes the page to clear PG_mlocked while it remains in a VM_LOCKED vma. This means it can be put onto the [in]active list. We can rescue it by using try_to_unmap() in shrink_page_list(). But now, As Wu Fengguang pointed out, vmscan has a bug. If the page has PG_referenced, it can't reach try_to_unmap() in shrink_page_list() but is put into the active list. If the page is referenced repeatedly, it can remain on the [in]active list without being moving to the unevictable list. This patch fixes it. Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <<kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index dea7abd31098..94e86dd6954c 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -630,9 +630,14 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
referenced = page_referenced(page, 1,
sc->mem_cgroup, &vm_flags);
- /* In active use or really unfreeable? Activate it. */
+ /*
+ * In active use or really unfreeable? Activate it.
+ * If page which have PG_mlocked lost isoltation race,
+ * try_to_unmap moves it to unevictable list
+ */
if (sc->order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
- referenced && page_mapping_inuse(page))
+ referenced && page_mapping_inuse(page)
+ && !(vm_flags & VM_LOCKED))
goto activate_locked;
/*