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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2007-07-19 01:47:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-19 10:04:41 -0700
commit79352894b28550ee0eee919149f57626ec1b3572 (patch)
tree849e6aa148c69b9df3920199255ca14792eeffa2 /mm
parent83c54070ee1a2d05c89793884bea1a03f2851ed4 (diff)
downloadlinux-79352894b28550ee0eee919149f57626ec1b3572.tar.bz2
mm: fix clear_page_dirty_for_io vs fault race
Fix msync data loss and (less importantly) dirty page accounting inaccuracies due to the race remaining in clear_page_dirty_for_io(). The deleted comment explains what the race was, and the added comments explain how it is fixed. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c9
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c17
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 61d51da7e17c..50dd3d1f4d18 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1765,6 +1765,15 @@ gotten:
unlock:
pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
if (dirty_page) {
+ /*
+ * Yes, Virginia, this is actually required to prevent a race
+ * with clear_page_dirty_for_io() from clearing the page dirty
+ * bit after it clear all dirty ptes, but before a racing
+ * do_wp_page installs a dirty pte.
+ *
+ * do_no_page is protected similarly.
+ */
+ wait_on_page_locked(dirty_page);
set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
put_page(dirty_page);
}
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 886ea0d5a136..e62482718012 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -918,6 +918,8 @@ int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
{
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+ BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+
if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
/*
* Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
@@ -943,14 +945,19 @@ int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
* We basically use the page "master dirty bit"
* as a serialization point for all the different
* threads doing their things.
- *
- * FIXME! We still have a race here: if somebody
- * adds the page back to the page tables in
- * between the "page_mkclean()" and the "TestClearPageDirty()",
- * we might have it mapped without the dirty bit set.
*/
if (page_mkclean(page))
set_page_dirty(page);
+ /*
+ * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
+ * installing a dirty pte and marking the page dirty
+ * at this point. We do this by having them hold the
+ * page lock at some point after installing their
+ * pte, but before marking the page dirty.
+ * Pages are always locked coming in here, so we get
+ * the desired exclusion. See mm/memory.c:do_wp_page()
+ * for more comments.
+ */
if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
return 1;