Re: [PATCH] mm/swap.c: clear PageActive before adding pages onto unevictable list (Re: 3.11.0-rc1: kernel BUG at mm/migrate.c:458 in page migration)

[Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:35:50PM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
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> From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:49:56 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] mm/swap.c: clear PageActive before adding pages onto
>  unevictable list
> 
> As a result of v3.10-3600-g13f7f78 "mm: pagevec: defer deciding which LRU
> to add a page to until pagevec drain time," pages on unevictable lists can
> have both of PageActive and PageUnevictable set. This is not only confusing,
> but also corrupts page migration and shrink_[in]active_list.
> 
> This patch fixes the problem by adding ClearPageActive before adding pages
> into unevictable list. It also cleans up VM_BUG_ONs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10

No need to send to stable because the problem occurs after 3.10, sorry.

Naoya Horiguchi

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