[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "mm: migrate dirty page without clear_page_dirty_for_io etc" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Wed Jun 22 14:29:07 UTC 2016
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
mm: migrate dirty page without clear_page_dirty_for_io etc
to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt23.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From f1032b340379281cec24be4fdb3bf165707d72c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:54:36 +0100
Subject: mm: migrate dirty page without clear_page_dirty_for_io etc
commit 42cb14b110a5698ccf26ce59c4441722605a3743 upstream.
clear_page_dirty_for_io() has accumulated writeback and memcg subtleties
since v2.6.16 first introduced page migration; and the set_page_dirty()
which completed its migration of PageDirty, later had to be moderated to
__set_page_dirty_nobuffers(); then PageSwapBacked had to skip that too.
No actual problems seen with this procedure recently, but if you look into
what the clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)+set_page_dirty(newpage) is actually
achieving, it turns out to be nothing more than moving the PageDirty flag,
and its NR_FILE_DIRTY stat from one zone to another.
It would be good to avoid a pile of irrelevant decrementations and
incrementations, and improper event counting, and unnecessary descent of
the radix_tree under tree_lock (to set the PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY which
radix_tree_replace_slot() left in place anyway).
Do the NR_FILE_DIRTY movement, like the other stats movements, while
interrupts still disabled in migrate_page_move_mapping(); and don't even
bother if the zone is the same. Do the PageDirty movement there under
tree_lock too, where old page is frozen and newpage not yet visible:
bearing in mind that as soon as newpage becomes visible in radix_tree, an
un-page-locked set_page_dirty() might interfere (or perhaps that's just
not possible: anything doing so should already hold an additional
reference to the old page, preventing its migration; but play safe).
But we do still need to transfer PageDirty in migrate_page_copy(), for
those who don't go the mapping route through migrate_page_move_mapping().
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse.cz>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave at stgolabs.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro at jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context. This is not just an optimisation,
but turned out to fix a possible oops (CVE-2016-3070).]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
mm/migrate.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index be6d1ed..3d49e5d 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
+#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
@@ -342,6 +343,8 @@ int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
struct buffer_head *head, enum migrate_mode mode,
int extra_count)
{
+ struct zone *oldzone, *newzone;
+ int dirty;
int expected_count = 1 + extra_count;
void **pslot;
@@ -352,6 +355,9 @@ int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
return MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS;
}
+ oldzone = page_zone(page);
+ newzone = page_zone(newpage);
+
spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
pslot = radix_tree_lookup_slot(&mapping->page_tree,
@@ -392,6 +398,13 @@ int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
set_page_private(newpage, page_private(page));
}
+ /* Move dirty while page refs frozen and newpage not yet exposed */
+ dirty = PageDirty(page);
+ if (dirty) {
+ ClearPageDirty(page);
+ SetPageDirty(newpage);
+ }
+
radix_tree_replace_slot(pslot, newpage);
/*
@@ -401,6 +414,9 @@ int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
*/
page_unfreeze_refs(page, expected_count - 1);
+ spin_unlock(&mapping->tree_lock);
+ /* Leave irq disabled to prevent preemption while updating stats */
+
/*
* If moved to a different zone then also account
* the page for that zone. Other VM counters will be
@@ -411,13 +427,19 @@ int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
* via NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_ANON_PAGES if they
* are mapped to swap space.
*/
- __dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_PAGES);
- __inc_zone_page_state(newpage, NR_FILE_PAGES);
- if (!PageSwapCache(page) && PageSwapBacked(page)) {
- __dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_SHMEM);
- __inc_zone_page_state(newpage, NR_SHMEM);
+ if (newzone != oldzone) {
+ __dec_zone_state(oldzone, NR_FILE_PAGES);
+ __inc_zone_state(newzone, NR_FILE_PAGES);
+ if (PageSwapBacked(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) {
+ __dec_zone_state(oldzone, NR_SHMEM);
+ __inc_zone_state(newzone, NR_SHMEM);
+ }
+ if (dirty && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
+ __dec_zone_state(oldzone, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
+ __inc_zone_state(newzone, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
+ }
}
- spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
+ local_irq_enable();
return MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS;
}
@@ -541,20 +563,9 @@ void migrate_page_copy(struct page *newpage, struct page *page)
if (PageMappedToDisk(page))
SetPageMappedToDisk(newpage);
- if (PageDirty(page)) {
- clear_page_dirty_for_io(page);
- /*
- * Want to mark the page and the radix tree as dirty, and
- * redo the accounting that clear_page_dirty_for_io undid,
- * but we can't use set_page_dirty because that function
- * is actually a signal that all of the page has become dirty.
- * Whereas only part of our page may be dirty.
- */
- if (PageSwapBacked(page))
- SetPageDirty(newpage);
- else
- __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(newpage);
- }
+ /* Move dirty on pages not done by migrate_page_move_mapping() */
+ if (PageDirty(page))
+ SetPageDirty(newpage);
/*
* Copy NUMA information to the new page, to prevent over-eager
--
2.7.4
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