Thread (140 messages) 140 messages, 3 authors, 2014-01-08
STALE4580d REVIEWED: 3 (0M)

[PATCH 3.12 115/144] mm/mempolicy: correct putback method for isolate pages if failed

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2014-01-06 23:49:38
Also in: lkml

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Joonsoo Kim <redacted>

commit b0e5fd7359f1ce8db4ccb862b3aa80d2f2cbf4d0 upstream.

queue_pages_range() isolates hugetlbfs pages and putback_lru_pages()
can't handle these.  We should change it to putback_movable_pages().

Naoya said that it is worth going into stable, because it can break
in-use hugepage list.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <redacted>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <redacted>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <redacted>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <redacted>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <redacted>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/mempolicy.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1317,7 +1317,7 @@ static long do_mbind(unsigned long start
 		if (nr_failed && (flags & MPOL_MF_STRICT))
 			err = -EIO;
 	} else
-		putback_lru_pages(&pagelist);
+		putback_movable_pages(&pagelist);
 
 	up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
  mpol_out:

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