From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
To: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/rmap: fix BUG at rmap_walk
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 15:07:03 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131219060703.GA27787@lge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131219055510.GA27532@lge.com>
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 02:55:10PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 01:41:55PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> > This bug is introduced by commit 37f093cdf(mm/rmap: use rmap_walk() in
> > page_referenced()). page_get_anon_vma() called in page_referenced_anon()
> > will lock and increase the refcount of anon_vma. PageLocked is not required
> > by page_referenced_anon() and there is not any assertion before, commit
> > 37f093cdf introduced this extra BUG_ON() checking for anon page by mistake.
> > This patch fix it by remove rmap_walk()'s VM_BUG_ON() and comment reason why
> > the page must be locked for rmap_walk_ksm() and rmap_walk_file().
FYI.
See following link to get more information.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/7/12/241
Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-19 6:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-19 5:41 [PATCH v3] mm/rmap: fix BUG at rmap_walk Wanpeng Li
2013-12-19 5:55 ` Joonsoo Kim
2013-12-19 6:07 ` Joonsoo Kim [this message]
2013-12-19 6:14 ` Wanpeng Li
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