On 02/24/2014 06:57 PM, Motohiro Kosaki wrote:
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove BUG_ON() from mlock_vma_page()
On 01/31/2014 03:33 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 08:42:49 +0800 Bob Liu<lliubbo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This BUG_ON() was triggered when called from try_to_unmap_cluster()
which didn't lock the page.
And it's safe to mlock_vma_page() without PageLocked, so this patch
fix this issue by removing that BUG_ON() simply.
This patch doesn't appear to be going anywhere, so I will drop it.
Please let's check to see whether the bug still exists and if so,
start another round of bugfixing.
This bug still happens on the latest -next kernel.
Yeah, I recognized it. I'm preparing new patch. Thanks.
What will be your approach? After we had the discussion some month ago
about m(un)lock vs migration I've concluded that there is no race that
page lock helps, and removing the BUG_ON() would be indeed correct. Just
needs to be correctly explained and documentation updated as well.
Vlastimil
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