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Commit: 3a6927906f1b2adf5a31b789322d32eb8559ada0
Parent: 3e3b3916a9c5c28a16528585478de19fea59816b
Author: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Wed Dec 19 14:05:13 2007 -0800
Committer: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Wed Dec 19 14:05:13 2007 -0800
Do dirty page accounting when removing a page from the page cache
Krzysztof Oledzki noticed a dirty page accounting leak on some of his
machines, causing the machine to eventually lock up when the kernel
decided that there was too much dirty data, but nobody could actually
write anything out to fix it.
The culprit turns out to be filesystems (cough ext3 with data=journal
cough) that re-dirty the page when the "->invalidatepage()" callback is
called.
Fix it up by doing a final dirty page accounting check when we actually
remove the page from the page cache.
This fixes bugzilla entry 9182:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9182
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tested-by: Krzysztof Oledzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
mm/filemap.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 188cf5f..f4d0cde 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -124,6 +124,18 @@ void __remove_from_page_cache(struct page *page)
mapping->nrpages--;
__dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_PAGES);
BUG_ON(page_mapped(page));
+
+ /*
+ * Some filesystems seem to re-dirty the page even after
+ * the VM has canceled the dirty bit (eg ext3 journaling).
+ *
+ * Fix it up by doing a final dirty accounting check after
+ * having removed the page entirely.
+ */
+ if (PageDirty(page) && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
+ dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
+ dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
+ }
}
void remove_from_page_cache(struct page *page)
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