From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shmem: fix pageflags after swapping DMA32 object
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:29:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161107112900.GC13280@node.shutemov.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1611062003510.11253@eggly.anvils>
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 08:08:29PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> If shmem_alloc_page() does not set PageLocked and PageSwapBacked, then
> shmem_replace_page() needs to do so for itself. Without this, it puts
> newpage on the wrong lru, re-unlocks the unlocked newpage, and system
> descends into "Bad page" reports and freeze; or if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y,
> it hits an earlier VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked), depending on config.
>
> But shmem_replace_page() is not a common path: it's only called when
> swapin (or swapoff) finds the page was already read into an unsuitable
> zone: usually all zones are suitable, but gem objects for a few drm
> devices (gma500, omapdrm, crestline, broadwater) require zone DMA32
> if there's more than 4GB of ram.
>
> Fixes: 800d8c63b2e9 ("shmem: add huge pages support")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.8
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Sorry for that.
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
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2016-11-07 4:08 [PATCH] shmem: fix pageflags after swapping DMA32 object Hugh Dickins
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