From c2cc499c5bcf9040a738f49e8051b42078205748 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leonid Yegoshin Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 15:55:18 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Leonid Yegoshin Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Russell King Cc: David Miller Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/migrate.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index 27ed22579fd..b1f57501de9 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static int remove_migration_pte(struct page *new, struct vm_area_struct *vma, pte = arch_make_huge_pte(pte, vma, new, 0); } #endif - flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pte_pfn(pte)); + flush_dcache_page(new); set_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, pte); if (PageHuge(new)) { -- cgit v1.2.3