From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:18:10 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mm: fix assertion mapping->nrpages == 0 in end_writeback()
X-Git-Tag: v3.0-rc5~11
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=08142579b6ca35883c1ed066a2681de6f6917062;p=pandora-kernel.git

mm: fix assertion mapping->nrpages == 0 in end_writeback()

Under heavy memory and filesystem load, users observe the assertion
mapping->nrpages == 0 in end_writeback() trigger.  This can be caused by
page reclaim reclaiming the last page from a mapping in the following
race:

	CPU0				CPU1
  ...
  shrink_page_list()
    __remove_mapping()
      __delete_from_page_cache()
        radix_tree_delete()
					evict_inode()
					  truncate_inode_pages()
					    truncate_inode_pages_range()
					      pagevec_lookup() - finds nothing
					  end_writeback()
					    mapping->nrpages != 0 -> BUG
        page->mapping = NULL
        mapping->nrpages--

Fix the problem by doing a reliable check of mapping->nrpages under
mapping->tree_lock in end_writeback().

Analyzed by Jay <jinshan.xiong@whamcloud.com>, lost in LKML, and dug out
by Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.de>.

Cc: Jay <jinshan.xiong@whamcloud.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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