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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2012-09-17 14:09:03 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-09-17 15:00:38 -0700
commit30c29bea6af2d3b6ffc8865864de7fc08cadb5df (patch)
treeb01c1ad1f07cfe5d2a7b0b6b2704358c70994899 /mm
parentfded4e090c60100d709318896c79816d68d5b47d (diff)
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slab: do ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for all pages of slab
Right now, we call ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for first page of slab when we clear SlabPfmemalloc flag. This is fine for most swap-over-network use cases as it is expected that order-0 pages are in use. Unfortunately it is possible that that __ac_put_obj() checks SlabPfmemalloc on a tail page and while this is harmless, it is sloppy. This patch ensures that the head page is always used. This problem was originally identified by Joonsoo Kim. [js1304@gmail.com: Original implementation and problem identification] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/slab.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 811af03..d34a903 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ static void *__ac_get_obj(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct array_cache *ac,
l3 = cachep->nodelists[numa_mem_id()];
if (!list_empty(&l3->slabs_free) && force_refill) {
struct slab *slabp = virt_to_slab(objp);
- ClearPageSlabPfmemalloc(virt_to_page(slabp->s_mem));
+ ClearPageSlabPfmemalloc(virt_to_head_page(slabp->s_mem));
clear_obj_pfmemalloc(&objp);
recheck_pfmemalloc_active(cachep, ac);
return objp;
@@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ static void *__ac_put_obj(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct array_cache *ac,
{
if (unlikely(pfmemalloc_active)) {
/* Some pfmemalloc slabs exist, check if this is one */
- struct page *page = virt_to_page(objp);
+ struct page *page = virt_to_head_page(objp);
if (PageSlabPfmemalloc(page))
set_obj_pfmemalloc(&objp);
}
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