On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 18:51:50 +0300 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 05:21:41PM +0200, Gerald Schaefer wrote: > > Christian Borntraeger reported a kernel panic after corrupt page counts, > > and it turned out to be a regression introduced with commit aa88b68c > > "thp: keep huge zero page pinned until tlb flush", at least on s390. > > > > put_huge_zero_page() was moved over from zap_huge_pmd() to release_pages(), > > and it was replaced by tlb_remove_page(). However, release_pages() might > > not always be triggered by (the arch-specific) tlb_remove_page(). > > > > On s390 we call free_page_and_swap_cache() from tlb_remove_page(), and not > > tlb_flush_mmu() -> free_pages_and_swap_cache() like the generic version, > > because we don't use the MMU-gather logic. Although both functions have very > > similar names, they are doing very unsimilar things, in particular > > free_page_xxx is just doing a put_page(), while free_pages_xxx calls > > release_pages(). > > > > This of course results in very harmful put_page()s on the huge zero page, > > on architectures where tlb_remove_page() is implemented in this way. It > > seems to affect only s390 and sh, but sh doesn't have THP support, so > > the problem (currently) probably only exists on s390. > > > > The following quick hack fixed the issue: > > > > diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c > > index 0d457e7..c99463a 100644 > > --- a/mm/swap_state.c > > +++ b/mm/swap_state.c > > @@ -252,7 +252,10 @@ static inline void free_swap_cache(struct page *page) > > void free_page_and_swap_cache(struct page *page) > > { > > free_swap_cache(page); > > - put_page(page); > > + if (is_huge_zero_page(page)) > > + put_huge_zero_page(); > > + else > > + put_page(page); > > } > > > > /* > > The fix looks good to me. Yes. A bit regrettable, but that's what release_pages() does. Can we have a signed-off-by please? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>