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Message-ID: <20090620192608.GA10878@csn.ul.ie>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:26:08 +0100
From: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@...ta.com.au>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Bad page flags when process using mlock()ed memory exits
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 07:45:02PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:11:21PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >
> > In recent kernels I've been seeing many mesages of the form:
> >
> > BUG: Bad page state in process reiserfsck pfn:79c58
> > page:c3d03b00 flags:8050000c count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:(null) index:8095
> > Pid: 3927, comm: reiserfsck Not tainted 2.6.30-test-05456-gda456f1 #60
> > Call Trace:
> > [<c134a67c>] ? printk+0xf/0x13
> > [<c10774dc>] bad_page+0xc9/0xe2
> > [<c1078041>] free_hot_cold_page+0x5c/0x204
> > [<c1078206>] __pagevec_free+0x1d/0x25
> > [<c107ac3e>] release_pages+0x14e/0x18e)
> > [<c108ef8a>] free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x69/0x82
> > [<c1089458>] exit_mmap+0xf6/0x11f
> > [<c102afcd>] mmput+0x39/0xaf
> > [<c102e534>] exit_mm+0xe5/0xed
> > [<c102fa66>] do_exit+0x13f/0x578
> > [<c102fefd>] do_group_exit+0x5e/0x85
> > [<c102ff37>] sys_exit_group+0x13/0x17
> > [<c10031ef>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x3c
> > Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> >
> > This appears to have been introduced by patch
> > da456f14d2f2d7350f2b9440af79c85a34c7eed5
> > page allocator: do not disable interrupts in free_page_mlock()
> >
> > That patch removed the free_page_mlock() from free_pages_check(), so
> > if free_hot_cold_page() is called on an Mlocked page (e.g., if a
> > process that used mlock() calls exit()) free_pages_check() will always
> > barf, whereas before it would just unlock the page.
>
> I prepared a fix, thanks for chasing it down.
>
> Mel, to keep this simple I just used the atomic test-clear, but if I
> am not mistaken we should not need any atomicity here, so we could
> probably add a __TestClearPage version and use this instead...?
>
It should not need to be atomic as there should be no other user of the
page. If __TestClearPage existed, it would be usable here.
> ---
> From 493b74e8615db4e3323b5b169b0b8265dfd7c3f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:30:56 +0200
> Subject: [patch] mm: page_alloc: clear PG_locked before checking flags on free
>
> da456f1 "page allocator: do not disable interrupts in free_page_mlock()" moved
> the PG_mlocked clearing after the flag sanity checking which makes mlocked
> pages always trigger 'bad page'. Fix this by clearing the bit up front.
>
> Reported-by: Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@...ta.com.au>
> Debugged-by: Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@...ta.com.au>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
The patch looks ok and I see no problem with clearing the bit without
disabling interrupts. The disabling of interrupts was for updating the
counters so;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Thanks Peter for catching this and thanks Johannes for fixing it up.
My apologies for the long delay in responding. I was offline for two days
at a conference. I thought I would have internet access but no such luck. Am
playing catch-up now in a rush.
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 9 ++++-----
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 6f0753f..30d5093 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -488,7 +488,6 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
> */
> static inline void free_page_mlock(struct page *page)
> {
> - __ClearPageMlocked(page);
> __dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_MLOCK);
> __count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_MLOCKFREED);
> }
> @@ -558,7 +557,7 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
> unsigned long flags;
> int i;
> int bad = 0;
> - int clearMlocked = PageMlocked(page);
> + int wasMlocked = TestClearPageMlocked(page);
>
> kmemcheck_free_shadow(page, order);
>
> @@ -576,7 +575,7 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
> kernel_map_pages(page, 1 << order, 0);
>
> local_irq_save(flags);
> - if (unlikely(clearMlocked))
> + if (unlikely(wasMlocked))
> free_page_mlock(page);
> __count_vm_events(PGFREE, 1 << order);
> free_one_page(page_zone(page), page, order,
> @@ -1022,7 +1021,7 @@ static void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold)
> struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
> struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
> unsigned long flags;
> - int clearMlocked = PageMlocked(page);
> + int wasMlocked = TestClearPageMlocked(page);
>
> kmemcheck_free_shadow(page, 0);
>
> @@ -1041,7 +1040,7 @@ static void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold)
> pcp = &zone_pcp(zone, get_cpu())->pcp;
> set_page_private(page, get_pageblock_migratetype(page));
> local_irq_save(flags);
> - if (unlikely(clearMlocked))
> + if (unlikely(wasMlocked))
> free_page_mlock(page);
> __count_vm_event(PGFREE);
>
> --
> 1.6.3
>
>
>
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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