If page is double referenced in madvise_hwpoison() and __memory_failure(), remove_mapping() will fail because it expects page_count=2. Fix it by not grabbing extra page count in __memory_failure(). CC: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang --- mm/madvise.c | 1 - mm/memory-failure.c | 8 ++++---- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- linux-mm.orig/mm/madvise.c 2009-11-02 11:12:02.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-mm/mm/madvise.c 2009-11-02 12:31:52.000000000 +0800 @@ -238,7 +238,6 @@ static int madvise_hwpoison(unsigned lon page_to_pfn(p), start); /* Ignore return value for now */ __memory_failure(page_to_pfn(p), 0, 1); - put_page(p); } return ret; } --- linux-mm.orig/mm/memory-failure.c 2009-11-02 12:31:49.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-mm/mm/memory-failure.c 2009-11-02 13:53:41.000000000 +0800 @@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ static void action_result(unsigned long } static int page_action(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p, - unsigned long pfn, int ref) + unsigned long pfn) { int result; int count; @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ static int page_action(struct page_state result = ps->action(p, pfn); action_result(pfn, ps->msg, result); - count = page_count(p) - 1 - ref; + count = page_count(p) - 1; if (count != 0) printk(KERN_ERR "MCE %#lx: %s page still referenced by %d users\n", @@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ int __memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, * In fact it's dangerous to directly bump up page count from 0, * that may make page_freeze_refs()/page_unfreeze_refs() mismatch. */ - if (!get_page_unless_zero(compound_head(p))) { + if (!ref && !get_page_unless_zero(compound_head(p))) { action_result(pfn, "free or high order kernel", IGNORED); return PageBuddy(compound_head(p)) ? 0 : -EBUSY; } @@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ int __memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, res = -EBUSY; for (ps = error_states;; ps++) { if (((p->flags | lru_flag)& ps->mask) == ps->res) { - res = page_action(ps, p, pfn, ref); + res = page_action(ps, p, pfn); break; } } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/