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fscache: Fix the default for fscache_maybe_release_page()
Fix the default for fscache_maybe_release_page() for when the cookie isn't valid or the page isn't cached. It mustn't return false as that indicates the page cannot yet be freed. The problem with the default is that if, say, there's no cache, but a network filesystem's pages are using up almost all the available memory, a system can OOM because the filesystem ->releasepage() op will not allow them to be released as fscache_maybe_release_page() incorrectly prevents it. This can be tested by writing a sequence of 512MiB files to an AFS mount. It does not affect NFS or CIFS because both of those wrap the call in a check of PG_fscache and it shouldn't bother Ceph as that only has PG_private set whilst writeback is in progress. This might be an issue for 9P, however. Note that the pages aren't entirely stuck. Removing a file or unmounting will clear things because that uses ->invalidatepage() instead. Fixes: 201a154 ("FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions") Reported-by: Marc Dionne <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]> Acked-by: Al Viro <[email protected]> Tested-by: Marc Dionne <[email protected]> cc: [email protected] # 2.6.32+
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