From 245132643e1cfcd145bbc86a716c1818371fcb93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:34:21 -0800 Subject: SHM_UNLOCK: fix Unevictable pages stranded after swap Commit cc39c6a9bbde ("mm: account skipped entries to avoid looping in find_get_pages") correctly fixed an infinite loop; but left a problem that find_get_pages() on shmem would return 0 (appearing to callers to mean end of tree) when it meets a run of nr_pages swap entries. The only uses of find_get_pages() on shmem are via pagevec_lookup(), called from invalidate_mapping_pages(), and from shmctl SHM_UNLOCK's scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(). The first is already commented, and not worth worrying about; but the second can leave pages on the Unevictable list after an unusual sequence of swapping and locking. Fix that by using shmem_find_get_pages_and_swap() (then ignoring the swap) instead of pagevec_lookup(). But I don't want to contaminate vmscan.c with shmem internals, nor shmem.c with LRU locking. So move scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() into shmem.c, renaming it shmem_unlock_mapping(); and rename check_move_unevictable_page() to check_move_unevictable_pages(), looping down an array of pages, oftentimes under the same lock. Leave out the "rotate unevictable list" block: that's a leftover from when this was used for /proc/sys/vm/scan_unevictable_pages, whose flawed handling involved looking at pages at tail of LRU. Was there significance to the sequence first ClearPageUnevictable, then test page_evictable, then SetPageUnevictable here? I think not, we're under LRU lock, and have no barriers between those. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: [back to 3.1 but will need respins] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/swap.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/swap.h') diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h index 06061a7f8e69..3e60228e7299 100644 --- a/include/linux/swap.h +++ b/include/linux/swap.h @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ static inline int zone_reclaim(struct zone *z, gfp_t mask, unsigned int order) #endif extern int page_evictable(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma); -extern void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *); +extern void check_move_unevictable_pages(struct page **, int nr_pages); extern unsigned long scan_unevictable_pages; extern int scan_unevictable_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b