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memory-hotplug: don't replace lowmem pages with highmem
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The changelog for commit 6a6dccb ("mm: cma: don't replace lowmem
pages with highmem") mentioned that lowmem pages can be replaced by
highmem pages during CMA migration.  6a6dccb fixed that issue.

Quote from that changelog:

:   The filesystem layer expects pages in the block device's mapping to not
:   be in highmem (the mapping's gfp mask is set in bdget()), but CMA can
:   currently replace lowmem pages with highmem pages, leading to crashes in
:   filesystem code such as the one below:
:
:     Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000400
:     pgd = c0c98000
:     [00000400] *pgd=00c91831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
:     Internal error: Oops: 817 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
:     CPU: 0    Not tainted  (3.5.0-rc5+ torvalds#80)
:     PC is at __memzero+0x24/0x80
:     ...
:     Process fsstress (pid: 323, stack limit = 0xc0cbc2f0)
:     Backtrace:
:     [<c010e3f0>] (ext4_getblk+0x0/0x180) from [<c010e58c>] (ext4_bread+0x1c/0x98)
:     [<c010e570>] (ext4_bread+0x0/0x98) from [<c0117944>] (ext4_mkdir+0x160/0x3bc)
:      r4:c15337f0
:     [<c01177e4>] (ext4_mkdir+0x0/0x3bc) from [<c00c29e0>] (vfs_mkdir+0x8c/0x98)
:     [<c00c2954>] (vfs_mkdir+0x0/0x98) from [<c00c2a60>] (sys_mkdirat+0x74/0xac)
:      r6:00000000 r5:c152eb40 r4:000001ff r3:c14b43f0
:     [<c00c29ec>] (sys_mkdirat+0x0/0xac) from [<c00c2ab8>] (sys_mkdir+0x20/0x24)
:      r6:beccdcf0 r5:00074000 r4:beccdbbc
:     [<c00c2a98>] (sys_mkdir+0x0/0x24) from [<c000e3c0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)

Memory-hotplug has same problem as CMA has so the same fix can be applied
to memory-hotplug as well.

Fix it by reusing.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Cc: Wen Congyang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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minchank authored and torvalds committed Oct 9, 2012
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15 changes: 6 additions & 9 deletions mm/memory_hotplug.c
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Expand Up @@ -756,13 +756,6 @@ static unsigned long scan_lru_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
return 0;
}

static struct page *
hotremove_migrate_alloc(struct page *page, unsigned long private, int **x)
{
/* This should be improooooved!! */
return alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE);
}

#define NR_OFFLINE_AT_ONCE_PAGES (256)
static int
do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -813,8 +806,12 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
putback_lru_pages(&source);
goto out;
}
/* this function returns # of failed pages */
ret = migrate_pages(&source, hotremove_migrate_alloc, 0,

/*
* alloc_migrate_target should be improooooved!!
* migrate_pages returns # of failed pages.
*/
ret = migrate_pages(&source, alloc_migrate_target, 0,
true, MIGRATE_SYNC);
if (ret)
putback_lru_pages(&source);
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