From: Hugh Dickins Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:29:06 +0000 (-0800) Subject: memcg: fix VM_BUG_ON from page migration X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc4~44 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=98837c7f82ef78aa38f40462aa2fcac68fd3acbf;p=linux-2.6 memcg: fix VM_BUG_ON from page migration Page migration gave me free_hot_cold_page's VM_BUG_ON page->page_cgroup. remove_migration_pte was calling mem_cgroup_charge on the new page whenever it found a swap pte, before it had determined it to be a migration entry. That left a surplus reference count on the page_cgroup, so it was still attached when the page was later freed. Move that mem_cgroup_charge down to where we're sure it's a migration entry. We were already under i_mmap_lock or anon_vma->lock, so its GFP_KERNEL was already inappropriate: change that to GFP_ATOMIC. It's essential that remove_migration_pte removes all the migration entries, other crashes follow if not. So proceed even when the charge fails: normally it cannot, but after a mem_cgroup_force_empty it might - comment in the code. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Balbir Singh Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi Cc: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index a73504ff5a..4e0eccca5e 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -153,11 +153,6 @@ static void remove_migration_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, return; } - if (mem_cgroup_charge(new, mm, GFP_KERNEL)) { - pte_unmap(ptep); - return; - } - ptl = pte_lockptr(mm, pmd); spin_lock(ptl); pte = *ptep; @@ -169,6 +164,20 @@ static void remove_migration_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (!is_migration_entry(entry) || migration_entry_to_page(entry) != old) goto out; + /* + * Yes, ignore the return value from a GFP_ATOMIC mem_cgroup_charge. + * Failure is not an option here: we're now expected to remove every + * migration pte, and will cause crashes otherwise. Normally this + * is not an issue: mem_cgroup_prepare_migration bumped up the old + * page_cgroup count for safety, that's now attached to the new page, + * so this charge should just be another incrementation of the count, + * to keep in balance with rmap.c's mem_cgroup_uncharging. But if + * there's been a force_empty, those reference counts may no longer + * be reliable, and this charge can actually fail: oh well, we don't + * make the situation any worse by proceeding as if it had succeeded. + */ + mem_cgroup_charge(new, mm, GFP_ATOMIC); + get_page(new); pte = pte_mkold(mk_pte(new, vma->vm_page_prot)); if (is_write_migration_entry(entry))