Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753053Ab1CQCbp (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:31:45 -0400 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:60399 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752598Ab1CQCbj (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:31:39 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 Message-ID: <4D81727A.3010800@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:31:22 +0900 From: Hidetoshi Seto User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; ja; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Arcangeli , Andi Kleen CC: Andrew Morton , Huang Ying , Jin Dongming , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Lock the new THP when collapsing pages References: <4D817234.9070106@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <4D817234.9070106@jp.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1625 Lines: 50 When collapsing pages, if the new THP is poisoned before it is mapped to the APL, memory_failure() can do nothing except setting the poison flag to the new THP, because it is not locked and not mapped yet. So lock the new THP to make sure that memory_failure() could run after the poisoned new THP is mapped to APL successfully. This can make sure the poisoned THP will give the smallest impact to the system by killing the APL instead of panicking the system. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto Signed-off-by: Jin Dongming --- mm/huge_memory.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 113e35c..e02f687 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1869,6 +1869,12 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, */ anon_vma_unlock(vma->anon_vma); + /* + * Lock the new THP to block memory_failure until it is + * mapped to the process. + */ + lock_page_nosync(new_page); + __collapse_huge_page_copy(pte, new_page, vma, address, ptl); pte_unmap(pte); __SetPageUptodate(new_page); @@ -1900,6 +1906,7 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, *hpage = NULL; #endif khugepaged_pages_collapsed++; + unlock_page(new_page); out_up_write: up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); return; -- 1.7.1 -- 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/