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mm: fix migration hangs on anon_vma lock
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:47:30 +0000 (15:47 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:47:05 +0000 (14:47 -0800)
commit9166c290bea610c0283cbf91e12bf7baa7134e87
treef9942501ea41c7edf6451432d4f746e75f03bb3d
parent584494cd43347902fa3ea276cae7a2f53267910f
mm: fix migration hangs on anon_vma lock

commit 1ce82b69e96c838d007f316b8347b911fdfa9842 upstream.

Increased usage of page migration in mmotm reveals that the anon_vma
locking in unmap_and_move() has been deficient since 2.6.36 (or even
earlier).  Review at the time of f18194275c39835cb84563500995e0d503a32d9a
("mm: fix hang on anon_vma->root->lock") missed the issue here: the
anon_vma to which we get a reference may already have been freed back to
its slab (it is in use when we check page_mapped, but that can change),
and so its anon_vma->root may be switched at any moment by reuse in
anon_vma_prepare.

Perhaps we could fix that with a get_anon_vma_unless_zero(), but let's
not: just rely on page_lock_anon_vma() to do all the hard thinking for us,
then we don't need any rcu read locking over here.

In removing the rcu_unlock label: since PageAnon is a bit in
page->mapping, it's impossible for a !page->mapping page to be anon; but
insert VM_BUG_ON in case the implementation ever changes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@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@suse.de>
mm/migrate.c