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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-02-27 12:46:16 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-02-27 12:46:16 -0800
commit691429e13dfaf5b0994b07cc166db41bd608ee3d (patch)
treebf52870108822c40d9a83d3c402c59d5f15cc6af /mm
parentMerge tag 'tags/ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 (diff)
parentdax: move writeback calls into the filesystems (diff)
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton: "10 fixes" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: dax: move writeback calls into the filesystems dax: give DAX clearing code correct bdev ext4: online defrag not supported with DAX ext2, ext4: only set S_DAX for regular inodes block: disable block device DAX by default ocfs2: unlock inode if deleting inode from orphan fails mm: ASLR: use get_random_long() drivers: char: random: add get_random_long() mm: numa: quickly fail allocations for NUMA balancing on full nodes mm: thp: fix SMP race condition between THP page fault and MADV_DONTNEED
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/filemap.c12
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c14
-rw-r--r--mm/migrate.c2
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 23edccecadb0..3461d97ecb30 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -446,7 +446,8 @@ int filemap_write_and_wait(struct address_space *mapping)
{
int err = 0;
- if (mapping->nrpages) {
+ if ((!dax_mapping(mapping) && mapping->nrpages) ||
+ (dax_mapping(mapping) && mapping->nrexceptional)) {
err = filemap_fdatawrite(mapping);
/*
* Even if the above returned error, the pages may be
@@ -482,13 +483,8 @@ int filemap_write_and_wait_range(struct address_space *mapping,
{
int err = 0;
- if (dax_mapping(mapping) && mapping->nrexceptional) {
- err = dax_writeback_mapping_range(mapping, lstart, lend);
- if (err)
- return err;
- }
-
- if (mapping->nrpages) {
+ if ((!dax_mapping(mapping) && mapping->nrpages) ||
+ (dax_mapping(mapping) && mapping->nrexceptional)) {
err = __filemap_fdatawrite_range(mapping, lstart, lend,
WB_SYNC_ALL);
/* See comment of filemap_write_and_wait() */
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 635451abc8f7..8132787ae4d5 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3404,8 +3404,18 @@ static int __handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (unlikely(pmd_none(*pmd)) &&
unlikely(__pte_alloc(mm, vma, pmd, address)))
return VM_FAULT_OOM;
- /* if an huge pmd materialized from under us just retry later */
- if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) || pmd_devmap(*pmd)))
+ /*
+ * If a huge pmd materialized under us just retry later. Use
+ * pmd_trans_unstable() instead of pmd_trans_huge() to ensure the pmd
+ * didn't become pmd_trans_huge under us and then back to pmd_none, as
+ * a result of MADV_DONTNEED running immediately after a huge pmd fault
+ * in a different thread of this mm, in turn leading to a misleading
+ * pmd_trans_huge() retval. All we have to ensure is that it is a
+ * regular pmd that we can walk with pte_offset_map() and we can do that
+ * through an atomic read in C, which is what pmd_trans_unstable()
+ * provides.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(pmd_trans_unstable(pmd) || pmd_devmap(*pmd)))
return 0;
/*
* A regular pmd is established and it can't morph into a huge pmd
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index b1034f9c77e7..3ad0fea5c438 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1582,7 +1582,7 @@ static struct page *alloc_misplaced_dst_page(struct page *page,
(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE |
__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC |
__GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN) &
- ~(__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS), 0);
+ ~__GFP_RECLAIM, 0);
return newpage;
}