Re: [PATCH] memcg: fix Bad page state after replace_page_cache

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>]

(2012/04/19 15:34), Hugh Dickins wrote:

> My 9ce70c0240d0 "memcg: fix deadlock by inverting lrucare nesting" put a
> nasty little bug into v3.3's version of mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache(),
> sometimes used for FUSE.  Replacing __mem_cgroup_commit_charge_lrucare()
> by __mem_cgroup_commit_charge(), I used the "pc" pointer set up earlier:
> but it's for oldpage, and needs now to be for newpage.  Once oldpage was
> freed, its PageCgroupUsed bit (cleared above but set again here) caused
> "Bad page state" messages - and perhaps worse, being missed from newpage.
> (I didn't find this by using FUSE, but in reusing the function for tmpfs.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.3 only]


Thanks,
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>


> ---
> 
>  mm/memcontrol.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> --- 3.4-rc3/mm/memcontrol.c	2012-04-15 20:47:37.151777506 -0700
> +++ linux/mm/memcontrol.c	2012-04-18 22:29:18.490639511 -0700
> @@ -3392,6 +3392,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache(struc
>  	 * the newpage may be on LRU(or pagevec for LRU) already. We lock
>  	 * LRU while we overwrite pc->mem_cgroup.
>  	 */
> +	pc = lookup_page_cgroup(newpage);
>  	__mem_cgroup_commit_charge(memcg, newpage, 1, pc, type, true);
>  }
>  
> 
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