thp: avoid VM_BUG_ON page_count(page) false positives in __collapse_huge_page_copy
authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:35:31 +0000 (14:35 +0200)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:38:09 +0000 (08:38 -0700)
Speculative cache pagecache lookups can elevate the refcount from
under us, so avoid the false positive. If the refcount is < 2 we'll be
notified by a VM_BUG_ON in put_page_testzero as there are two
put_page(src_page) in a row before returning from this function.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/huge_memory.c

index 57c4b93090151f2acbc1271b7b214fe5bc96478c..141dbb695097c1f0674b8978456eb1d0c98e3e67 100644 (file)
@@ -1811,7 +1811,6 @@ static void __collapse_huge_page_copy(pte_t *pte, struct page *page,
                        src_page = pte_page(pteval);
                        copy_user_highpage(page, src_page, address, vma);
                        VM_BUG_ON(page_mapcount(src_page) != 1);
-                       VM_BUG_ON(page_count(src_page) != 2);
                        release_pte_page(src_page);
                        /*
                         * ptl mostly unnecessary, but preempt has to