linux-kernel - [PATCH 66 of 66] add debug checks for mapcount related invariants

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Date:	Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:28:41 +0100
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, bpicco@...hat.com,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: [PATCH 66 of 66] add debug checks for mapcount related invariants

From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>

Add debug checks for invariants that if broken could lead to mapcount vs
page_mapcount debug checks to trigger later in split_huge_page.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
---

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -804,6 +804,7 @@ static inline int copy_pmd_range(struct 
 		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
 		if (pmd_trans_huge(*src_pmd)) {
 			int err;
+			VM_BUG_ON(next-addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
 			err = copy_huge_pmd(dst_mm, src_mm,
 					    dst_pmd, src_pmd, addr, vma);
 			if (err == -ENOMEM)
@@ -1015,9 +1016,10 @@ static inline unsigned long zap_pmd_rang
 	do {
 		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
 		if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
-			if (next-addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE)
+			if (next-addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) {
+				VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&tlb->mm->mmap_sem));
 				split_huge_page_pmd(vma->vm_mm, pmd);
-			else if (zap_huge_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd)) {
+			} else if (zap_huge_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd)) {
 				(*zap_work)--;
 				continue;
 			}
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