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linux/mm
Nick Piggin 3a902c5f68 mm: fix warning on memory offline
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki found a warning message in the buffer dirtying code that
is coming from page migration caller.

WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:720 __set_page_dirty+0x330/0x360()
Call Trace:
 [<a000000100015220>] show_stack+0x80/0xa0
 [<a000000100015270>] dump_stack+0x30/0x60
 [<a000000100089ed0>] warn_on_slowpath+0x90/0xe0
 [<a0000001001f8b10>] __set_page_dirty+0x330/0x360
 [<a0000001001ffb90>] __set_page_dirty_buffers+0xd0/0x280
 [<a00000010012fec0>] set_page_dirty+0xc0/0x260
 [<a000000100195670>] migrate_page_copy+0x5d0/0x5e0
 [<a000000100197840>] buffer_migrate_page+0x2e0/0x3c0
 [<a000000100195eb0>] migrate_pages+0x770/0xe00

What was happening is that migrate_page_copy wants to transfer the PG_dirty
bit from old page to new page, so what it would do is set_page_dirty(newpage).
However set_page_dirty() is used to set the entire page dirty, wheras in
this case, only part of the page was dirty, and it also was not uptodate.

Marking the whole page dirty with set_page_dirty would lead to corruption or
unresolvable conditions -- a dirty && !uptodate page and dirty && !uptodate
buffers.

Possibly we could just ClearPageDirty(oldpage); SetPageDirty(newpage);
however in the interests of keeping the change minimal...

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:55 -07:00
..
allocpercpu.c cpumask: Cleanup more uses of CPU_MASK and NODE_MASK 2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
backing-dev.c mm: bdi: move statistics to debugfs 2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
bootmem.c memory hotplug: make alloc_bootmem_section() 2008-04-28 08:58:25 -07:00
bounce.c
dmapool.c dmapool: enable debugging for CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON too 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fadvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap_xip.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap.c mm: rotate_reclaimable_page() cleanup 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fremap.c mm: fix various kernel-doc comments 2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
highmem.c mm: highmem kernel-doc additions 2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
hugetlb.c page allocator: explicitly retry hugepage allocations 2008-04-29 08:05:58 -07:00
internal.h memory hotplug: free memmaps allocated by bootmem 2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00
Kconfig PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED and separate page flags for Head and Tail 2008-04-28 08:58:22 -07:00
maccess.c kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_* 2008-04-17 20:05:39 +02:00
madvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
Makefile uaccess: add probe_kernel_write() 2008-04-17 20:05:36 +02:00
memcontrol.c memcg: remove redundant initialization in mem_cgroup_create() 2008-04-29 08:06:11 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug.c must #include "internal.h" 2008-04-28 13:44:29 -07:00
memory.c mm: add vm_insert_mixed 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
mempolicy.c mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in shmem_sb_info 2008-04-28 08:58:25 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm: fix warning on memory offline 2008-04-30 08:29:55 -07:00
mincore.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
mlock.c
mmap.c procfs task exe symlink 2008-04-29 08:06:17 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nommu.c procfs task exe symlink 2008-04-29 08:06:17 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom_kill: remove unused parameter in badness() 2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00
page_alloc.c infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects 2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c mm: Add NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP counter 2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm: fix possible off-by-one in walk_pte_range() 2008-04-28 08:58:16 -07:00
pdflush.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial 2008-04-21 16:36:46 -07:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs 2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
rmap.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c mm: bdi: add separate writeback accounting capability 2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
slab.c mm: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
slob.c slob: fix bug - when slob allocates "struct kmem_cache", it does not force alignment. 2008-04-27 18:25:51 +03:00
slub.c infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects 2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c NULL noise: fs/*, mm/*, kernel/* 2008-03-30 14:18:41 -07:00
sparse.c mm: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: bdi: add separate writeback accounting capability 2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
swap.c mm: rotate_reclaimable_page() cleanup 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: use non-racy method for /proc/swaps creation 2008-04-29 08:06:20 -07:00
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-03-25 08:57:47 -07:00
truncate.c fix invalidate_inode_pages2_range() to not clear ret 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
util.c
vmalloc.c infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects 2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: Add NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP counter 2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00