mm/ksm.c: fix inconsistent accounting of zero pages

When using KSM with use_zero_pages, we replace anonymous pages
containing only zeroes with actual zero pages, which are not anonymous.
We need to do proper accounting of the mm counters, otherwise we will
get wrong values in /proc and a BUG message in dmesg when tearing down
the mm.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: e86c59b1b1 ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring")
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index e8d6c6210b80c305da1481c7be54680e6459c866..e3cbf9a92f3cdd9519f7724f152d816cd22f3a44 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1131,6 +1131,13 @@ static int replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
        } else {
                newpte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(page_to_pfn(kpage),
                                               vma->vm_page_prot));
+               /*
+                * We're replacing an anonymous page with a zero page, which is
+                * not anonymous. We need to do proper accounting otherwise we
+                * will get wrong values in /proc, and a BUG message in dmesg
+                * when tearing down the mm.
+                */
+               dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
        }
 
        flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pte_pfn(*ptep));