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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2012-10-08 16:33:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-09 16:22:56 +0900
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mm: use clear_page_mlock() in page_remove_rmap()
We had thought that pages could no longer get freed while still marked as mlocked; but Johannes Weiner posted this program to demonstrate that truncating an mlocked private file mapping containing COWed pages is still mishandled: #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { char *map; int fd; system("grep mlockfreed /proc/vmstat"); fd = open("chigurh", O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_RDWR); unlink("chigurh"); ftruncate(fd, 4096); map = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0); map[0] = 11; mlock(map, sizeof(fd)); ftruncate(fd, 0); close(fd); munlock(map, sizeof(fd)); munmap(map, 4096); system("grep mlockfreed /proc/vmstat"); return 0; } The anon COWed pages are not caught by truncation's clear_page_mlock() of the pagecache pages; but unmap_mapping_range() unmaps them, so we ought to look out for them there in page_remove_rmap(). Indeed, why should truncation or invalidation be doing the clear_page_mlock() when removing from pagecache? mlock is a property of mapping in userspace, not a property of pagecache: an mlocked unmapped page is nonsensical. Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index d205e43..5f5d1f0 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1577,12 +1577,12 @@ split_fallthrough:
if (page->mapping && trylock_page(page)) {
lru_add_drain(); /* push cached pages to LRU */
/*
- * Because we lock page here and migration is
- * blocked by the pte's page reference, we need
- * only check for file-cache page truncation.
+ * Because we lock page here, and migration is
+ * blocked by the pte's page reference, and we
+ * know the page is still mapped, we don't even
+ * need to check for file-cache page truncation.
*/
- if (page->mapping)
- mlock_vma_page(page);
+ mlock_vma_page(page);
unlock_page(page);
}
}
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