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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:54:19 -0700
From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm: Batch page_check_references in
shrink_page_list sharing the same i_mmap_mutex
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 08:21 -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 17:48 -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks to Matthew's suggestions on improving the patch. Here's the
> > updated version. It seems to be sane when I booted my machine up. I
> > will put it through more testing when I get a chance.
> >
> > Tim
> >
>
> Matthew,
>
> The new patch seems to be causing some of the workloads with mmaped file
> read to seg fault. Will need to dig further to find out why.
>
> Tim
>
Okay, the problem seems to be the code below. It is too restrictive and
causes some cases where the mutex needs to be taken in try_to_unmap_file
to be missed.
> > +int needs_page_mmap_mutex(struct page *page)
> > +{
> > + return page->mapping && page_mapped(page) && page_rmapping(page) &&
> > + !PageKsm(page) && !PageAnon(page);
> > +}
> > +
Changing the check to the following fixes the problem:
@@ -873,8 +873,7 @@ static int page_referenced_file(struct page *page,
int needs_page_mmap_mutex(struct page *page)
{
- return page->mapping && page_mapped(page) && page_rmapping(page) &&
- !PageKsm(page) && !PageAnon(page);
+ return page->mapping && !PageKsm(page) && !PageAnon(page);
}
I'll do more testing and generate a second version of the patch set with the fixes.
Tim
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