Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752677Ab3EJJ04 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 May 2013 05:26:56 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47011 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751941Ab3EJJ0w (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 May 2013 05:26:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 11:26:49 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: Seth Jennings Cc: Dave Hansen , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mgorman@suse.de, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] defer clearing of page_private() for swap cache pages Message-ID: <20130510092649.GA14968@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20130507211954.9815F9D1@viggo.jf.intel.com> <20130507211955.7DF88A4F@viggo.jf.intel.com> <20130509220739.GA14840@cerebellum> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130509220739.GA14840@cerebellum> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5424 Lines: 97 On Thu 09-05-13 17:07:39, Seth Jennings wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 02:19:55PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > From: Dave Hansen > > > > There are only two callers of swapcache_free() which actually > > pass in a non-NULL 'struct page'. Both of them > > (__remove_mapping and delete_from_swap_cache()) create a > > temporary on-stack 'swp_entry_t' and set entry.val to > > page_private(). > > > > They need to do this since __delete_from_swap_cache() does > > set_page_private(page, 0) and destroys the information. > > > > However, I'd like to batch a few of these operations on several > > pages together in a new version of __remove_mapping(), and I > > would prefer not to have to allocate temporary storage for > > each page. The code is pretty ugly, and it's a bit silly > > to create these on-stack 'swp_entry_t's when it is so easy to > > just keep the information around in 'struct page'. > > > > There should not be any danger in doing this since we are > > absolutely on the path of freeing these page. There is no > > turning back, and no other rerferences can be obtained > > after it comes out of the radix tree. > > I get a BUG on this one: > > [ 26.114818] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > [ 26.115282] kernel BUG at mm/memcontrol.c:4111! > [ 26.115282] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP > [ 26.115282] Modules linked in: > [ 26.115282] CPU: 3 PID: 5026 Comm: cc1 Not tainted 3.9.0+ #8 > [ 26.115282] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007 > [ 26.115282] task: ffff88007c1cdca0 ti: ffff88001b442000 task.ti: ffff88001b442000 > [ 26.115282] RIP: 0010:[] [] __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common+0x255/0x2e0 > [ 26.115282] RSP: 0000:ffff88001b443708 EFLAGS: 00010206 > [ 26.115282] RAX: 4000000000090009 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffc90000014001 > [ 26.115282] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffffea00006e5b40 > [ 26.115282] RBP: ffff88001b443738 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 > [ 26.115282] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffea00006e5b40 > [ 26.115282] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffea00006e5b40 R15: 0000000000000002 > [ 26.115282] FS: 00007fabd08ee700(0000) GS:ffff88007fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > [ 26.115282] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > [ 26.115282] CR2: 00007fabce27a000 CR3: 000000001985f000 CR4: 00000000000006a0 > [ 26.115282] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > [ 26.115282] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > [ 26.115282] Stack: > [ 26.115282] ffffffff810dcbae ffff880064a0a500 0000000000000001 ffffea00006e5b40 > [ 26.115282] ffffea00006e5b40 0000000000000001 ffff88001b443748 ffffffff810f0d05 > [ 26.115282] ffff88001b443778 ffffffff810ddb3e ffff88001b443778 ffffea00006e5b40 > [ 26.115282] Call Trace: > [ 26.115282] [] ? swap_info_get+0x5e/0xe0 > [ 26.115282] [] mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache+0x15/0x20 > [ 26.115282] [] swapcache_free+0x4e/0x70 > [ 26.115282] [] __remove_mapping+0xd7/0x120 > [ 26.115282] [] shrink_page_list+0x5c2/0x920 > [ 26.115282] [] ? isolate_lru_pages.isra.37+0xae/0x120 > [ 26.115282] [] shrink_inactive_list+0x13f/0x380 > [ 26.115282] [] shrink_lruvec+0x240/0x4e0 > [ 26.115282] [] shrink_zone+0x66/0x1a0 > [ 26.115282] [] do_try_to_free_pages+0xeb/0x570 > [ 26.115282] [] ? lookup_page_cgroup_used+0x9/0x20 > [ 26.115282] [] try_to_free_pages+0x9f/0xc0 > [ 26.115282] [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5a7/0x970 > [ 26.115282] [] handle_pte_fault+0x65e/0x880 > [ 26.115282] [] handle_mm_fault+0x139/0x1e0 > [ 26.115282] [] __do_page_fault+0x160/0x460 > [ 26.115282] [] ? do_brk+0x1fc/0x360 > [ 26.115282] [] ? lockdep_sys_exit_thunk+0x35/0x67 > [ 26.115282] [] do_page_fault+0x9/0x10 > [ 26.115282] [] page_fault+0x22/0x30 > [ 26.115282] Code: a9 00 00 08 00 0f 85 43 fe ff ff e9 b8 fe ff ff 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 8b 44 24 18 85 c0 0f 89 2b fe ff ff 0f 1f 00 e9 9d fe ff ff <0f> 0b 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 49 89 9c 24 48 0f 00 00 e9 0a > [ 26.115282] RIP [] __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common+0x255/0x2e0 > [ 26.115282] RSP > [ 26.171597] ---[ end trace 5e49a21e51452c24 ]--- > > > mm/memcontrol:4111 > VM_BUG_ON(PageSwapCache(page)); > > Seems that mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache, somewhat ironically expects the > SwapCache flag to be unset already. > > Fix might be a simple as removing that VM_BUG_ON() but there might be more to > it. There usually is :) This has been already fixed in the -mm tree (http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mhocko/mm.git/commit/?h=since-3.9&id=b341f7ffa5fe6ae11afa87e2fecc32c6093541f8) -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/