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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-05-24 18:12:15 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-05-24 18:12:15 -0700
commit9cf1848278a41f8d5f69b26bca546cfd2d5677d8 (patch)
tree2628cd3e8e3ca1acfe81e636b082c285d97640d9 /mm/memcontrol.c
parent00cec111ac477ba71c99043358f17e9bb4d335fe (diff)
parent03e04f048d2774aabd126fbad84729d4ba9dc40a (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew Morton)
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton: "A bunch of fixes and one simple fbdev driver which missed the merge window because people will still talking about it (to no great effect)." * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (30 commits) aio: fix kioctx not being freed after cancellation at exit time mm/pagewalk.c: walk_page_range should avoid VM_PFNMAP areas drivers/rtc/rtc-max8998.c: check for pdata presence before dereferencing ocfs2: goto out_unlock if ocfs2_get_clusters_nocache() failed in ocfs2_fiemap() random: fix accounting race condition with lockless irq entropy_count update drivers/char/random.c: fix priming of last_data mm/memory_hotplug.c: fix printk format warnings nilfs2: fix issue of nilfs_set_page_dirty() for page at EOF boundary drivers/block/brd.c: fix brd_lookup_page() race fbdev: FB_GOLDFISH should depend on HAS_DMA drivers/rtc/rtc-pl031.c: pass correct pointer to free_irq() auditfilter.c: fix kernel-doc warnings aio: fix io_getevents documentation revert "selftest: add simple test for soft-dirty bit" drivers/leds/leds-ot200.c: fix error caused by shifted mask mm/THP: use pmd_populate() to update the pmd with pgtable_t pointer linux/kernel.h: fix kernel-doc warning mm compaction: fix of improper cache flush in migration code rapidio/tsi721: fix bug in MSI interrupt handling hfs: avoid crash in hfs_bnode_create ...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memcontrol.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index cb1c9dedf9b6..010d6c14129a 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4108,8 +4108,6 @@ __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common(struct page *page, enum charge_type ctype,
if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
return NULL;
- VM_BUG_ON(PageSwapCache(page));
-
if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
nr_pages <<= compound_order(page);
VM_BUG_ON(!PageTransHuge(page));
@@ -4205,6 +4203,18 @@ void mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(struct page *page)
if (page_mapped(page))
return;
VM_BUG_ON(page->mapping && !PageAnon(page));
+ /*
+ * If the page is in swap cache, uncharge should be deferred
+ * to the swap path, which also properly accounts swap usage
+ * and handles memcg lifetime.
+ *
+ * Note that this check is not stable and reclaim may add the
+ * page to swap cache at any time after this. However, if the
+ * page is not in swap cache by the time page->mapcount hits
+ * 0, there won't be any page table references to the swap
+ * slot, and reclaim will free it and not actually write the
+ * page to disk.
+ */
if (PageSwapCache(page))
return;
__mem_cgroup_uncharge_common(page, MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_ANON, false);