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author | Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> | 2008-02-03 23:29:12 +0000 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-02-08 12:01:49 -0800 |
commit | f7839802980042d93ffc6ec5966e1efdb507a9a2 (patch) | |
tree | fae6942641fdff810d3e180d7a22c53d76ae8945 | |
parent | 50b85eb6699dac080b5047034da19c7282c821f2 (diff) | |
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Fix dirty page accounting leak with ext3 data=journal
patch a2b345642f530054a92b8d2b5108436225a8093e in mainline.
In 46d2277c796f9f4937bfa668c40b2e3f43e93dd0, try_to_free_buffers was
changed to bail out if the page was dirty. That caused
truncate_complete_page to leak massive amounts of memory, because the
dirty bit was only cleared after the call to try_to_free_buffers. So the
call to cancel_dirty_page was moved up to have the dirty bit cleared
early in 3e67c0987d7567ad666641164a153dca9a43b11d.
The problem with that fix is, that the page can be redirtied after
cancel_dirty_page was called, eg. like this:
truncate_complete_page()
cancel_dirty_page() // PG_dirty cleared, decr. dirty pages
do_invalidatepage()
ext3_invalidatepage()
journal_invalidatepage()
journal_unmap_buffer()
__dispose_buffer()
__journal_unfile_buffer()
__journal_temp_unlink_buffer()
mark_buffer_dirty(); // PG_dirty set, incr. dirty pages
And then we end up with dirty pages being wrongly accounted.
In ecdfc9787fe527491baefc22dce8b2dbd5b2908d the changes to
try_to_free_buffers were reverted, so the original reason for the
massive memory leak is gone, so we can also revert the move of
the call to cancel_dirty_page from truncate_complete_page and get the
accounting right again.
Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Tested-by: Zaid D. <zaid.box@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Osterried <osterried@jesse.de>
Cc: Kerin Millar <kerframil@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r-- | mm/truncate.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c index 5cdfbc1a59fd..39da56919d72 100644 --- a/mm/truncate.c +++ b/mm/truncate.c @@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ truncate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page) if (page->mapping != mapping) return; - cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); - if (PagePrivate(page)) do_invalidatepage(page, 0); + cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); + remove_from_page_cache(page); ClearPageUptodate(page); ClearPageMappedToDisk(page); |