mm compaction: fix of improper cache flush in migration code
authorLeonid Yegoshin <[email protected]>
Fri, 24 May 2013 22:55:18 +0000 (15:55 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Fri, 24 May 2013 23:22:51 +0000 (16:22 -0700)
commitc2cc499c5bcf9040a738f49e8051b42078205748
tree59ba8f0964c215916a21a16ab380791c38f519d8
parent1ccc819da6fda9bee10ab8b72e9adbb5ad3e4959
mm compaction: fix of improper cache flush in migration code

Page 'new' during MIGRATION can't be flushed with flush_cache_page().
Using flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pfn) is justified only if the page is
already placed in process page table, and that is done right after
flush_cache_page().  But without it the arch function has no knowledge
of process PTE and does nothing.

Besides that, flush_cache_page() flushes an application cache page, but
the kernel has a different page virtual address and dirtied it.

Replace it with flush_dcache_page(new) which is the proper usage.

The old page is flushed in try_to_unmap_one() before migration.

This bug takes place in Sead3 board with M14Kc MIPS CPU without cache
aliasing (but Harvard arch - separate I and D cache) in tight memory
environment (128MB) each 1-3days on SOAK test.  It fails in cc1 during
kernel build (SIGILL, SIGBUS, SIGSEG) if CONFIG_COMPACTION is switched
ON.

Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin <[email protected]>
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: David Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/migrate.c