linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: don't return 0 too early from find_get

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Date:	Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:35:51 -0800 (PST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Salman Qazi <sqazi@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: don't return 0 too early from find_get_pages()

Callers of find_get_pages(), or its wrapper pagevec_lookup() - notably
truncate_inode_pages_range() - stop looking further when it returns 0.

But if an interrupt comes just after its radix_tree_gang_lookup_slot(),
especially if we have preemptible RCU enabled, isn't it conceivable
that all 14 pages returned could be removed from the page cache by
shrink_page_list(), before find_get_pages() gets to process them?  So
causing it to return 0 although there may be plenty more pages beyond.

Make find_get_pages() and find_get_pages_tag() check for this unlikely
case, and restart should it occur; but callers of find_get_pages_contig()
have no such expectation, it's okay for that to return 0 early.

I have not seen this in practice, just worried by the possibility.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
---

 mm/filemap.c |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

--- 2.6.38-rc6/mm/filemap.c	2011-01-18 22:04:56.000000000 -0800
+++ linux/mm/filemap.c	2011-02-23 16:06:19.000000000 -0800
@@ -800,6 +800,13 @@ repeat:
 		pages[ret] = page;
 		ret++;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * If all entries were removed before we could secure them,
+	 * try again, because callers stop trying once 0 is returned.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(!ret && nr_found))
+		goto restart;
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -909,6 +916,13 @@ repeat:
 		pages[ret] = page;
 		ret++;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * If all entries were removed before we could secure them,
+	 * try again, because callers stop trying once 0 is returned.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(!ret && nr_found))
+		goto restart;
 	rcu_read_unlock();

 	if (ret)
--
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