On 07/22/2010 03:41 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
Rik, how do you think ? == From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Problem: wrong BUG_ON() in __page_set_anon_rmap(). Kernel version: mmotm-0719
Description: Even if SwapCache is fully unmapped and mapcount goes down to 0, page->mapping is not cleared and will remain on memory until kswapd or some finds it. If a thread cause a page fault onto such "unmapped-but-not-discarded" swapcache, it will see a swap cache whose mapcount is 0 but page->mapping has a valid value. When it's reused at do_swap_page(), __page_set_anon_rmap() is called with "exclusive==1" and hits BUG_ON(). But this BUG_ON() is wrong. Nothing bad with rmapping a page which has page->mapping isn't 0.
Yes, you are absolutely right. Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Index: mmotm-2.6.35-0719/mm/rmap.c =================================================================== --- mmotm-2.6.35-0719.orig/mm/rmap.c +++ mmotm-2.6.35-0719/mm/rmap.c @@ -783,8 +783,16 @@ static void __page_set_anon_rmap(struct if (PageAnon(page)) return; anon_vma = anon_vma->root; - } else - BUG_ON(PageAnon(page)); + } else { + /* + * In this case, swapped-out-but-not-discarded swap-cache + * is remapped. So, no need to update page->mapping here. + * We convice anon_vma poitned by page->mapping is not obsolete + * because vma->anon_vma is necessary to be a family of it. + */ + if (PageAnon(page)) + return; + } anon_vma = (void *) anon_vma + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON; page->mapping = (struct address_space *) anon_vma;
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