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linux/mm
Hugh Dickins d99be1a8ec mm: sigbus instead of abusing oom
When do_nonlinear_fault() realizes that the page table must have been
corrupted for it to have been called, it does print_bad_pte() and returns
...  VM_FAULT_OOM, which is hard to understand.

It made some sense when I did it for 2.6.15, when do_page_fault() just
killed the current process; but nowadays it lets the OOM killer decide who
to kill - so page table corruption in one process would be liable to kill
another.

Change it to return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS instead: that doesn't guarantee that
the process will be killed, but is good enough for such a rare
abnormality, accompanied as it is by the "BUG: Bad page map" message.

And recent HWPOISON work has copied that code into do_swap_page(), when it
finds an impossible swap entry: fix that to VM_FAULT_SIGBUS too.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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>
2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
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backing-dev.c flusher: Fix PF_FROZEN race 2009-12-03 13:49:43 +01:00
bootmem.c bootmem: Add free_bootmem_late() 2009-11-10 12:31:43 +01:00
bounce.c
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
filemap.c kill wait_on_page_writeback_range 2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
fremap.c
highmem.c highmem: Fix debug_kmap_atomic() to also handle KM_IRQ_PTE, KM_NMI, and KM_NMI_PTE 2009-11-10 04:15:47 +01:00
hugetlb.c mm: add gfp flags for NODEMASK_ALLOC slab allocations 2009-12-15 08:53:13 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs 2009-09-16 11:50:17 +02:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm: CONFIG_MMU for PG_mlocked 2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
Kconfig mm: stop ptlock enlarging struct page 2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
Kconfig.debug trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options 2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c tree-wide: fix typos "aquire" -> "acquire", "cumsumed" -> "consumed" 2009-11-09 09:40:57 +01:00
ksm.c ksm: cond_resched in unstable tree 2009-11-09 09:55:44 -08:00
maccess.c
madvise.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
Makefile percpu: kill legacy percpu allocator 2009-10-02 13:29:29 +09:00
memcontrol.c tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: clear node in N_HIGH_MEMORY and stop kswapd when all memory is offlined 2009-12-15 08:53:13 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm: CONFIG_MMU for PG_mlocked 2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
memory.c mm: sigbus instead of abusing oom 2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
mempolicy.c hugetlb: derive huge pages nodes allowed from task mempolicy 2009-12-15 08:53:12 -08:00
mempool.c mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c mm: define PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS 2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
mincore.c
mlock.c mm: mlocking in try_to_unmap_one 2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mmap: don't return ENOMEM when mapcount is temporarily exceeded in munmap() 2009-12-15 08:53:11 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm: reduce atomic use on use_mm fast path 2009-09-22 07:17:42 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c ksm: add mmu_notifier set_pte_at_notify() 2009-09-22 07:17:31 -07:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
mremap.c Take arch_mmap_check() into get_unmapped_area() 2009-12-11 06:44:58 -05:00
msync.c
nommu.c NOMMU: Don't pass NULL pointers to fput() in do_mmap_pgoff() 2009-10-31 12:11:37 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom: dump stack and VM state when oom killer panics 2009-12-15 08:53:10 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: CONFIG_MMU for PG_mlocked 2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
page_cgroup.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
page_io.c swap: rework map_swap_page() again 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks 2009-12-03 13:54:25 +01:00
pagewalk.c
percpu.c Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next 2009-12-08 10:02:12 +09:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c cpumask: use new-style cpumask ops in mm/quicklist. 2009-09-24 09:34:52 +09:30
readahead.c
rmap.c mm: pass address down to rmap ones 2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
shmem_acl.c shmfs: use 'check_acl' instead of 'permission' 2009-09-08 11:08:46 -07:00
shmem.c swap_info: note SWAP_MAP_SHMEM 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
slab.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 10:13:22 -08:00
slob.c slab: remove duplicate kmem_cache_init_late() declarations 2009-08-06 11:36:25 +03:00
slub.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 10:13:22 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
sparse.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: add_to_swap_cache() does not return -EEXIST 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
swap.c mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages 2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: define PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS 2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
thrash.c
truncate.c mm: fix comments for invalidate_inode_pages2() 2009-12-04 15:39:48 +01:00
util.c fix a struct file leak in do_mmap_pgoff() 2009-12-11 06:44:57 -05:00
vmalloc.c vmalloc(): adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc() invocation 2009-12-15 08:53:13 -08:00
vmscan.c vmscan: stop kswapd waiting on congestion when the min watermark is not being met 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
vmstat.c vmscan: stop kswapd waiting on congestion when the min watermark is not being met 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00