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SubjectRe: [BUG] infinite loop in find_get_pages()
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On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 16:43 +0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mercredi 14 septembre 2011 à 16:20 +0800, Shaohua Li a écrit :
> > 2011/9/14 Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>:
> > > it appears we didn't account skipped swap entry in find_get_pages().
> > > does the attached patch help?
> > I can easily reproduce the issue. Just cp files in tmpfs, trigger swap and
> > drop caches. The debug patch fixes it at my side.
> > Eric, please try it.
> >
>
> Hello Shaohua
>
> I tried it with added traces :
>
>
> [ 277.077855] mv used greatest stack depth: 3336 bytes left
> [ 310.558012] nr_found=2 nr_skip=2
> [ 310.558139] nr_found=14 nr_skip=14
> [ 332.195162] nr_found=2 nr_skip=2
> [ 332.195274] nr_found=14 nr_skip=14
> [ 352.315273] nr_found=14 nr_skip=14
> [ 372.673575] nr_found=14 nr_skip=14
> [ 397.115463] nr_found=14 nr_skip=14
> [ 403.391694] cc1 used greatest stack depth: 3184 bytes left
> [ 404.761194] cc1 used greatest stack depth: 2640 bytes left
> [ 417.306510] nr_found=14 nr_skip=14
> [ 440.198051] nr_found=14 nr_skip=14
>
> I also used :
>
> - if (unlikely(!ret && nr_found))
> + if (unlikely(!ret && nr_found > nr_skip))
> goto restart;
nr_found > nr_skip is better

> It seems to fix the bug. I suspect it also aborts
> invalidate_mapping_pages() if we skip 14 pages, but existing comment
> states its OK :
>
> /*
> * Note: this function may get called on a shmem/tmpfs mapping:
> * pagevec_lookup() might then return 0 prematurely (because it
> * got a gangful of swap entries); but it's hardly worth worrying
> * about - it can rarely have anything to free from such a mapping
> * (most pages are dirty), and already skips over any difficulties.
> */
that might be a problem, let Hugh answer if it is.

Thanks,
Shaohua

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