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memory-hotplug: don't replace lowmem pages with highmem
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:33:53 +0000 (11:33 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:26:55 +0000 (17:26 +1000)
commit86f5999feb72ba936d90eb8b98a525e629cdf26f
tree4728dd975d89ce98f6593010a9765e5b48479c6a
parent37980b62fcf1740026d9ac61efd92ed43f1dc79f
memory-hotplug: don't replace lowmem pages with highmem

The changelog for 6a6dccba2 ("mm: cma: don't replace lowmem pages with
highmem") mentioned that lowmem pages can be replaced by highmem pages
during CMA migration.  6a6dccba2 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+ #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 <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memory_hotplug.c