From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FE006B0047 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:44:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:43:12 -0500 From: Rik van Riel Subject: [PATCH -mm] rmap: remove obsolete check from __page_check_anon_rmap Message-ID: <20100128014312.47c5045d@annuminas.surriel.com> In-Reply-To: <20100128002000.2bf5e365@annuminas.surriel.com> References: <20100128002000.2bf5e365@annuminas.surriel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, KOSAKI Motohiro , lwoodman@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Lee Schermerhorn , aarcange@redhat.com List-ID: When an anonymous page is inherited from a parent process, the vma->anon_vma can differ from the page anon_vma. This can trip up __page_check_anon_rmap, which is indirectly called from do_swap_page(). Remove that obsolete check to prevent an oops. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel --- The previous patch survived a short AIM7 run and only got upset when I invoked pkill. Presumably pkill paged in a page that was created in the parent process of the process is was scanning. With this patch it all seems to be stable. diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index de7fde0..9e63424 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -755,9 +755,6 @@ static void __page_check_anon_rmap(struct page *page, * are initially only visible via the pagetables, and the pte is locked * over the call to page_add_new_anon_rmap. */ - struct anon_vma *anon_vma = vma->anon_vma; - anon_vma = (void *) anon_vma + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON; - BUG_ON(page->mapping != (struct address_space *)anon_vma); BUG_ON(page->index != linear_page_index(vma, address)); #endif } -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org