From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux-FSDevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible -fix
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 16:49:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140520154900.GO23991@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399974350-11089-19-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>
Prabhakar Lad reported the following problem
I see following issue on DA850 evm,
git bisect points me to
commit id: 975c3a671f11279441006a29a19f55ccc15fb320
( mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation
where possible)
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 30e03501
pgd = c68cc000
[30e03501] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 1 [#1] PREEMPT ARM
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1015 Comm: network.sh Not tainted 3.15.0-rc5-00323-g975c3a6 #9
task: c70c4e00 ti: c73d0000 task.ti: c73d0000
PC is at init_page_accessed+0xc/0x24
LR is at shmem_write_begin+0x54/0x60
pc : [<c0088aa0>] lr : [<c00923e8>] psr: 20000013
sp : c73d1d90 ip : c73d1da0 fp : c73d1d9c
r10: c73d1dec r9 : 00000000 r8 : 00000000
r7 : c73d1e6c r6 : c694d7bc r5 : ffffffe4 r4 : c73d1dec
r3 : c73d0000 r2 : 00000001 r1 : 00000000 r0 : 30e03501
Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user
Control: 0005317f Table: c68cc000 DAC: 00000015
Process network.sh (pid: 1015, stack limit = 0xc73d01c0)
pagep is set but not pointing to anywhere valid as it's an uninitialised
stack variable. This patch is a fix to
mm-non-atomically-mark-page-accessed-during-page-cache-allocation-where-possible.patch
Reported-by: Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
---
mm/filemap.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 2a7b9d1..0691481 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2459,7 +2459,7 @@ ssize_t generic_perform_write(struct file *file,
flags |= AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE;
do {
- struct page *page;
+ struct page *page = NULL;
unsigned long offset; /* Offset into pagecache page */
unsigned long bytes; /* Bytes to write to page */
size_t copied; /* Bytes copied from user */
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2014-05-13 9:45 [PATCH 00/19] Misc page alloc, shmem, mark_page_accessed and page_waitqueue optimisations v3r33 Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 01/19] mm: page_alloc: Do not update zlc unless the zlc is active Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 02/19] mm: page_alloc: Do not treat a zone that cannot be used for dirty pages as "full" Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 03/19] jump_label: Expose the reference count Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 04/19] mm: page_alloc: Use jump labels to avoid checking number_of_cpusets Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 10:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-13 12:28 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 05/19] mm: page_alloc: Calculate classzone_idx once from the zonelist ref Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 22:25 ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-14 6:32 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-14 20:29 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 06/19] mm: page_alloc: Only check the zone id check if pages are buddies Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 07/19] mm: page_alloc: Only check the alloc flags and gfp_mask for dirty once Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 08/19] mm: page_alloc: Take the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK check out of the fast path Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 09/19] mm: page_alloc: Use word-based accesses for get/set pageblock bitmaps Mel Gorman
2014-05-22 9:24 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-05-22 18:23 ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-22 18:45 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 10/19] mm: page_alloc: Reduce number of times page_to_pfn is called Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 13:27 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-05-13 14:09 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 11/19] mm: page_alloc: Lookup pageblock migratetype with IRQs enabled during free Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 13:36 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-05-13 14:23 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 12/19] mm: page_alloc: Use unsigned int for order in more places Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 13/19] mm: page_alloc: Convert hot/cold parameter and immediate callers to bool Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 14/19] mm: shmem: Avoid atomic operation during shmem_getpage_gfp Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 15/19] mm: Do not use atomic operations when releasing pages Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 16/19] mm: Do not use unnecessary atomic operations when adding pages to the LRU Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 17/19] fs: buffer: Do not use unnecessary atomic operations when discarding buffers Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 11:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-13 12:50 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 13:49 ` Jan Kara
2014-05-13 14:30 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 14:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-13 14:46 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 13:50 ` Jan Kara
2014-05-13 22:29 ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-14 6:12 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 18/19] mm: Non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 14:29 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-20 15:49 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2014-05-20 19:34 ` [PATCH] mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible -fix Andrew Morton
2014-05-21 12:09 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-21 22:11 ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-22 0:07 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-22 5:35 ` Prabhakar Lad
2014-05-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 19/19] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary barries and waitqueue lookups in unlock_page fastpath Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 12:53 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 14:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-13 15:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-13 15:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-13 16:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-13 18:57 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-13 20:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-14 14:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-13 18:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-13 18:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-13 18:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-13 18:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-13 19:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-13 20:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-14 16:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-14 16:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-16 13:51 ` [PATCH 0/1] ptrace: task_clear_jobctl_trapping()->wake_up_bit() needs mb() Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-16 13:51 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-21 9:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-21 19:19 ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-21 19:18 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Andrew Morton
2014-05-14 19:29 ` [PATCH 19/19] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary barries and waitqueue lookups in unlock_page fastpath Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-14 20:53 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-15 10:48 ` [PATCH] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary barries and waitqueue lookups in unlock_page fastpath v4 Mel Gorman
2014-05-15 13:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-15 13:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-15 15:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-15 15:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-15 16:18 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-15 15:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-15 21:24 ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-21 12:15 ` [PATCH] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary barries and waitqueue lookups in unlock_page fastpath v5 Mel Gorman
2014-05-21 13:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-21 15:33 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-21 16:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-21 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-21 21:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-21 21:50 ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-22 0:07 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-22 7:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-22 10:40 ` [PATCH] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary barriers and waitqueue lookups in unlock_page fastpath v7 Mel Gorman
2014-05-22 10:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-22 13:00 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-22 14:40 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-22 15:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-22 15:36 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-22 16:58 ` [PATCH] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary barriers and waitqueue lookups in unlock_page fastpath v8 Mel Gorman
2014-05-22 6:45 ` [PATCH] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary barries and waitqueue lookups in unlock_page fastpath v5 Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-22 8:46 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-22 17:47 ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-22 19:53 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-21 23:35 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-13 16:52 ` [PATCH 19/19] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary barries and waitqueue lookups in unlock_page fastpath Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-14 7:31 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-19 8:57 ` [PATCH] mm: Avoid unnecessary atomic operations during end_page_writeback Mel Gorman
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