[PATCH 3.12 05/82] mm/memory-failure.c: move refcount only in !MF_COUNT_INCREASED

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-20T23:52:11Z

From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>

commit 8d547ff4ac5927245e0833ac18528f939da0ee0e upstream.

mce-test detected a test failure when injecting error to a thp tail
page. This is because we take page refcount of the tail page in
madvise_hwpoison() while the fix in commit a3e0f9e47d5e
("mm/memory-failure.c: transfer page count from head page to tail page
after split thp") assumes that we always take refcount on the head page.

When a real memory error happens we take refcount on the head page where
memory_failure() is called without MF_COUNT_INCREASED set, so it seems
to me that testing memory error on thp tail page using madvise makes
little sense.

This patch cancels moving refcount in !MF_COUNT_INCREASED for valid
testing.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/&&/&/]
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
mm/memory-failure.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -945,8 +945,10 @@ static int hwpoison_user_mappings(struct
* to it. Similarly, page lock is shifted.
*/
if (hpage != p) {
- put_page(hpage);
- get_page(p);
+ if (!(flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED)) {
+ put_page(hpage);
+ get_page(p);
+ }
lock_page(p);
unlock_page(hpage);
*hpagep = p;