Active pages should not be freed to the page allocator as it triggers a bad page state warning. Fengguang Wu reported the following bug and bisected it to the patch "mm: remove lru parameter from __lru_cache_add and lru_cache_add_lru" which is currently in mmotm as mm-remove-lru-parameter-from-__lru_cache_add-and-lru_cache_add_lru.patch [ 84.212960] BUG: Bad page state in process rm pfn:0b0c9 [ 84.214682] page:ffff88000d646240 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x0 [ 84.216883] page flags: 0x20000000004c(referenced|uptodate|active) [ 84.218697] CPU: 1 PID: 283 Comm: rm Not tainted 3.10.0-rc4-04361-geeb9bfc #49 [ 84.220729] ffff88000d646240 ffff88000d179bb8 ffffffff82562956 ffff88000d179bd8 [ 84.223242] ffffffff811333f1 000020000000004c ffff88000d646240 ffff88000d179c28 [ 84.225387] ffffffff811346a4 ffff880000270000 0000000000000000 0000000000000006 [ 84.227294] Call Trace: [ 84.227867] [<ffffffff82562956>] dump_stack+0x27/0x30 [ 84.229045] [<ffffffff811333f1>] bad_page+0x130/0x158 [ 84.230261] [<ffffffff811346a4>] free_pages_prepare+0x8b/0x1e3 [ 84.231765] [<ffffffff8113542a>] free_hot_cold_page+0x28/0x1cf [ 84.233171] [<ffffffff82585830>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x6b/0xc6 [ 84.234822] [<ffffffff81135b59>] free_hot_cold_page_list+0x30/0x5a [ 84.236311] [<ffffffff8113a4ed>] release_pages+0x251/0x267 [ 84.237653] [<ffffffff8112a88d>] ? delete_from_page_cache+0x48/0x9e [ 84.239142] [<ffffffff8113ad93>] __pagevec_release+0x2b/0x3d [ 84.240473] [<ffffffff8113b45a>] truncate_inode_pages_range+0x1b0/0x7ce [ 84.242032] [<ffffffff810e76ab>] ? put_lock_stats.isra.20+0x1c/0x53 [ 84.243480] [<ffffffff810e77f5>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x113/0x11f [ 84.244935] [<ffffffff8113ba8c>] truncate_inode_pages+0x14/0x1d [ 84.246337] [<ffffffff8119b3ef>] evict+0x11f/0x232 [ 84.247501] [<ffffffff8119c527>] iput+0x1a5/0x218 [ 84.248607] [<ffffffff8118f015>] do_unlinkat+0x19b/0x25a [ 84.249828] [<ffffffff810ea993>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x210/0x2ce [ 84.251382] [<ffffffff8144372e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [ 84.252879] [<ffffffff8118f10d>] SyS_unlinkat+0x39/0x4c [ 84.254174] [<ffffffff825874d6>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f [ 84.255596] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint The problem was that a page marked for activation was released via pagevec. This patch clears the active bit before freeing in this case. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Reported-and-Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/swap.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c index ac23602..4a1d0d2 100644 --- a/mm/swap.c +++ b/mm/swap.c @@ -739,6 +739,9 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, int cold) del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, page_off_lru(page)); } + /* Clear Active bit in case of parallel mark_page_accessed */ + ClearPageActive(page); + list_add(&page->lru, &pages_to_free); } if (zone) -- 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>