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| author | Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> | 2013-09-30 13:45:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-09-30 14:31:02 -0700 |
| commit | 117aad1e9e4d97448d1df3f84b08bd65811e6d6a (patch) | |
| tree | 95b264e706071241c1b7cb8c0185ccfb8ec753c2 /mm/vmscan.c | |
| parent | 0772dac1dc28ab5a67374303e58c0fe5bff15720 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-117aad1e9e4d97448d1df3f84b08bd65811e6d6a.tar.gz lwn-117aad1e9e4d97448d1df3f84b08bd65811e6d6a.zip | |
mm: avoid reinserting isolated balloon pages into LRU lists
Isolated balloon pages can wrongly end up in LRU lists when
migrate_pages() finishes its round without draining all the isolated
page list.
The same issue can happen when reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() tries to
reclaim pages from an isolated page list, before migration, in the CMA
path. Such balloon page leak opens a race window against LRU lists
shrinkers that leads us to the following kernel panic:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
IP: [<ffffffff810c2625>] shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
PGD 3cda2067 PUD 3d713067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 340 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc1-22626-g4367597 #87
Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
RIP: shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
RSP: 0000:ffff88003da499b8 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88003e82bd60 RCX: 00000000000657d5
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000031f RDI: ffff88003e82bd40
RBP: ffff88003da49ab0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000081121a45
R10: ffffffff81121a45 R11: ffff88003c4a9a28 R12: ffff88003e82bd40
R13: ffff88003da0e800 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88003da49d58
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000067d9000 CR3: 000000003ace5000 CR4: 00000000000407b0
Call Trace:
shrink_inactive_list+0x240/0x3de
shrink_lruvec+0x3e0/0x566
__shrink_zone+0x94/0x178
shrink_zone+0x3a/0x82
balance_pgdat+0x32a/0x4c2
kswapd+0x2f0/0x372
kthread+0xa2/0xaa
ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
Code: 80 7d 8f 01 48 83 95 68 ff ff ff 00 4c 89 e7 e8 5a 7b 00 00 48 85 c0 49 89 c5 75 08 80 7d 8f 00 74 3e eb 31 48 8b 80 18 01 00 00 <48> 8b 74 0d 48 8b 78 30 be 02 00 00 00 ff d2 eb
RIP [<ffffffff810c2625>] shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
RSP <ffff88003da499b8>
CR2: 0000000000000028
---[ end trace 703d2451af6ffbfd ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
This patch fixes the issue, by assuring the proper tests are made at
putback_movable_pages() & reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() to avoid
isolated balloon pages being wrongly reinserted in LRU lists.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify awkward comment text]
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index beb35778c69f..53f2f82f83ae 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ #include <asm/div64.h> #include <linux/swapops.h> +#include <linux/balloon_compaction.h> #include "internal.h" @@ -1113,7 +1114,8 @@ unsigned long reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(struct zone *zone, LIST_HEAD(clean_pages); list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, page_list, lru) { - if (page_is_file_cache(page) && !PageDirty(page)) { + if (page_is_file_cache(page) && !PageDirty(page) && + !isolated_balloon_page(page)) { ClearPageActive(page); list_move(&page->lru, &clean_pages); } |