From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] thp: tidy and fix khugepaged_prealloc_page
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:55:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50508632.9090003@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
There has a bug in khugepaged_prealloc_page, the page-alloc
indicator is not reset if the previous page request is failed,
then it will trigger the VM_BUG_ON in khugepaged_alloc_page.
It is fixed by the first patch which need not be back port for
it was introduced by recent commit. (sorry for that)
As Hugh pointed out, this are some ugly portions:
- releasing mmap_sem lock is hidden in khugepaged_alloc_page
- page is freed in khugepaged_prealloc_page
The later two patches try to fix these issues.
Hugh,
If any point i missed, please let me know, and sorry to waste
your time on my broken patch.
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next reply other threads:[~2012-09-12 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 12:55 Xiao Guangrong [this message]
2012-09-12 12:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] thp: fix forgetting to reset the page alloc indicator Xiao Guangrong
2012-09-12 12:56 ` [PATCH 2/3] thp: move release mmap_sem lock out of khugepaged_alloc_page Xiao Guangrong
2012-09-12 22:18 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-13 9:16 ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-09-12 12:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] thp: introduce khugepaged_cleanup_page Xiao Guangrong
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