Re: Warning on memory offline (and possible in usual migration?)

[Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:16:07PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> > No, it need not be under IO or in some unstable state. Christoph just
> > said that migration can't handle !uptodate pages, and I'm very
> > curious as to why not, and what is in place to prevent that from
> > happening.
> 
> We just assumed that the page was in an unstable state since it was under 
> I/O.

A !uptodate page isn't necessarily under IO. But even if you are assuming
it is in an unstable state, I don't see any code that would prevent it
from trying to migrate an !uptodate page.

Anyway, here is my proposed (uncompiled, untested) fix. Score 1 for my
buffer invariant checks if I'm right ;)

---

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki found a warning message in the buffer dirtying code that
is coming from page migration caller.

WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:720 __set_page_dirty+0x330/0x360()
Call Trace:
 [<a000000100015220>] show_stack+0x80/0xa0
 [<a000000100015270>] dump_stack+0x30/0x60
 [<a000000100089ed0>] warn_on_slowpath+0x90/0xe0
 [<a0000001001f8b10>] __set_page_dirty+0x330/0x360
 [<a0000001001ffb90>] __set_page_dirty_buffers+0xd0/0x280
 [<a00000010012fec0>] set_page_dirty+0xc0/0x260
 [<a000000100195670>] migrate_page_copy+0x5d0/0x5e0
 [<a000000100197840>] buffer_migrate_page+0x2e0/0x3c0
 [<a000000100195eb0>] migrate_pages+0x770/0xe00

What was happening is that migrate_page_copy wants to transfer the PG_dirty
bit from old page to new page, so what it would do is set_page_dirty(newpage).
However set_page_dirty() is used to set the entire page dirty, wheras in
this case, only part of the page was dirty, and it also was not uptodate.

Marking the whole page dirty with set_page_dirty would lead to corruption or
unresolvable conditions -- a dirty && !uptodate page and dirty && !uptodate
buffers.

Possibly we could just ClearPageDirty(oldpage); SetPageDirty(newpage);
however in the interests of keeping the change minimal...

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
---
Index: linux-2.6/mm/migrate.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/migrate.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/migrate.c
@@ -383,7 +383,14 @@ static void migrate_page_copy(struct pag
 
 	if (PageDirty(page)) {
 		clear_page_dirty_for_io(page);
-		set_page_dirty(newpage);
+		/*
+		 * Want to mark the page and the radix tree as dirty, and
+		 * redo the accounting that clear_page_dirty_for_io undid,
+		 * but we can't use set_page_dirty because that function
+		 * is actually a signal that all of the page has become dirty.
+		 * Wheras only part of our page may be dirty.
+		 */
+		__set_page_dirty_nobuffers(newpage);
  	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP

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