Re: [PATCH] mm: remove BUG_ON() from mlock_vma_page()

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On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:12:25PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

 > >> 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.

This is not just a -next problem btw, I just hit this in 3.14-rc6

	Dave

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