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    • Andy Whitcroft's avatar
      mm: handle initialising compound pages at orders greater than MAX_ORDER · 6babc32c
      Andy Whitcroft authored 
      When we initialise a compound page we initialise the page flags and head
page pointer for all base pages spanned by that page.  When we initialise
a gigantic page (a page of order greater than or equal to MAX_ORDER) we
have to initialise more than MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages.  Currently we
assume that all elements of the mem_map in this page are contigious in
memory.  However this is only guarenteed out to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages,
and with SPARSEMEM enabled they will not be contigious.  This leads us to
walk off the end of the first section and scribble on everything which
follows, BAD.

When we reach a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary we much locate the next
section of the mem_map.  As gigantic pages can only be maximally aligned
we know this will occur at exact multiple of MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages from
the start of the page.

This is a bug fix for the gigantic page support in hugetlbfs.

Credit to Mel Gorman for spotting the issue.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6babc32c
    • Nick Piggin's avatar
      mm: tiny-shmem nommu fix · 4b19de6d
      Nick Piggin authored 
      The previous patch db203d53 ("mm:
tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutex") to fix the lock
ordering in tiny-shmem breaks shared anonymous and IPC memory on NOMMU
architectures because it was using the expanding truncate to signal ramfs
to allocate a physically contiguous RAM backing the inode (otherwise it is
unusable for "memory mapping" it to userspace).

However do_truncate is what caused the lock ordering error, due to it
taking i_mutex.  In this case, we can actually just call ramfs directly to
allocate memory for the mapping, rather than go via truncate.
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4b19de6d
    • Gerald Schaefer's avatar
      memory hotplug: missing zone->lock in test_pages_isolated() · 6c1b7f68
      Gerald Schaefer authored 
      __test_page_isolated_in_pageblock() in mm/page_isolation.c has a comment
saying that the caller must hold zone->lock. But the only caller of that
function, test_pages_isolated(), does not hold zone->lock and the lock is
also not acquired anywhere before. This patch adds the missing zone->lock
to test_pages_isolated().

We reproducibly run into BUG_ON(!PageBuddy(page)) in __offline_isolated_pages()
during memory hotplug stress test, see trace below. This patch fixes that
problem, it would be good if we could have it in 2.6.27.

kernel BUG at /home/autobuild/BUILD/linux-2.6.26-20080909/mm/page_alloc.c:4561!
illegal operation: 0001 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: dm_multipath sunrpc bonding qeth_l3 dm_mod qeth ccwgroup vmur
CPU: 1 Not tainted 2.6.26-29.x.20080909-s390default #1
Process memory_loop_all (pid: 10025, task: 2f444028, ksp: 2b10dd28)
Krnl PSW : 040c0000 801727ea (__offline_isolated_pages+0x18e/0x1c4)
 R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:0 PM:0
Krnl GPRS: 00000000 7e27fc00 00000000 7e27fc00
 00000000 00000400 00014000 7e27fc01
 00606f00 7e27fc00 00013fe0 2b10dd28
 00000005 80172662 801727b2 2b10dd28
Krnl Code: 801727de: 5810900c l %r1,12(%r9)
 801727e2: a7f4ffb3 brc 15,80172748
 801727e6: a7f40001 brc 15,801727e8
 >801727ea: a7f4ffbc brc 15,80172762
 801727ee: a7f40001 brc 15,801727f0
 801727f2: a7f4ffaf brc 15,80172750
 801727f6: 0707 bcr 0,%r7
 801727f8: 0017 unknown
Call Trace:
([<0000000000172772>] __offline_isolated_pages+0x116/0x1c4)
 [<00000000001953a2>] offline_isolated_pages_cb+0x22/0x34
 [<000000000013164c>] walk_memory_resource+0xcc/0x11c
 [<000000000019520e>] offline_pages+0x36a/0x498
 [<00000000001004d6>] remove_memory+0x36/0x44
 [<000000000028fb06>] memory_block_change_state+0x112/0x150
 [<000000000028ffb8>] store_mem_state+0x90/0xe4
 [<0000000000289c00>] sysdev_store+0x34/0x40
 [<00000000001ee048>] sysfs_write_file+0xd0/0x178
 [<000000000019b1a8>] vfs_write+0x74/0x118
 [<000000000019b9ae>] sys_write+0x46/0x7c
 [<000000000011160e>] sysc_do_restart+0x12/0x16
 [<0000000077f3e8ca>] 0x77f3e8ca
Signed-off-by: default avatarGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6c1b7f68
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