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mm: vmscan: do not use page_count without a page pin
It is unsafe to run page_count during the physical pfn scan because compound_head could trip on a dangling pointer when reading page->first_page if the compound page is being freed by another CPU. [mgorman@suse.de: split out patch] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -1124,8 +1124,20 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
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nr_lumpy_dirty++;
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nr_lumpy_dirty++;
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scan++;
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scan++;
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} else {
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} else {
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/* the page is freed already. */
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/*
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if (!page_count(cursor_page))
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* Check if the page is freed already.
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*
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* We can't use page_count() as that
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* requires compound_head and we don't
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* have a pin on the page here. If a
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* page is tail, we may or may not
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* have isolated the head, so assume
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* it's not free, it'd be tricky to
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* track the head status without a
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* page pin.
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*/
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if (!PageTail(cursor_page) &&
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!atomic_read(&cursor_page->_count))
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continue;
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continue;
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break;
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break;
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}
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}
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