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author | Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com> | 2013-05-24 18:55:18 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-05-24 19:22:51 -0400 |
commit | c2cc499c5bcf9040a738f49e8051b42078205748 (patch) | |
tree | 59ba8f0964c215916a21a16ab380791c38f519d8 /include/linux/pageblock-flags.h | |
parent | 1ccc819da6fda9bee10ab8b72e9adbb5ad3e4959 (diff) |
mm compaction: fix of improper cache flush in migration code
Page 'new' during MIGRATION can't be flushed with flush_cache_page().
Using flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pfn) is justified only if the page is
already placed in process page table, and that is done right after
flush_cache_page(). But without it the arch function has no knowledge
of process PTE and does nothing.
Besides that, flush_cache_page() flushes an application cache page, but
the kernel has a different page virtual address and dirtied it.
Replace it with flush_dcache_page(new) which is the proper usage.
The old page is flushed in try_to_unmap_one() before migration.
This bug takes place in Sead3 board with M14Kc MIPS CPU without cache
aliasing (but Harvard arch - separate I and D cache) in tight memory
environment (128MB) each 1-3days on SOAK test. It fails in cc1 during
kernel build (SIGILL, SIGBUS, SIGSEG) if CONFIG_COMPACTION is switched
ON.
Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <yegoshin@mips.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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