Expected BUG. Here's the fix. Marcelo, this is what we discussed previously:
parts of the kernel that grab a temporary reference to a page will frequently
not use page_cache_release as the page may never have been part of the page
cache. This shows up with the network stack in sendpage() as well as many
other paths. Please apply.
:r ~/patches/v2.4.17-pglru.diff
diff -urN v2.4.17/include/linux/pagemap.h v2.4.17-pglru/include/linux/pagemap.h
--- v2.4.17/include/linux/pagemap.h Thu Dec 20 19:30:25 2001
+++ v2.4.17-pglru/include/linux/pagemap.h Tue Jan 1 14:46:04 2002
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
#define PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr)+PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_CACHE_MASK)
#define page_cache_get(x) get_page(x)
-extern void FASTCALL(page_cache_release(struct page *));
+#define page_cache_release(x) __free_page(x)
static inline struct page *page_cache_alloc(struct address_space *x)
{
diff -urN v2.4.17/kernel/ksyms.c v2.4.17-pglru/kernel/ksyms.c
--- v2.4.17/kernel/ksyms.c Tue Jan 1 14:09:35 2002
+++ v2.4.17-pglru/kernel/ksyms.c Tue Jan 1 14:46:55 2002
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pages_node);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__get_free_pages);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_zeroed_page);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_cache_release);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__free_pages);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_pages);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(num_physpages);
diff -urN v2.4.17/mm/page_alloc.c v2.4.17-pglru/mm/page_alloc.c
--- v2.4.17/mm/page_alloc.c Mon Nov 26 23:43:08 2001
+++ v2.4.17-pglru/mm/page_alloc.c Tue Jan 1 14:44:59 2002
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@
struct page *base;
zone_t *zone;
+ /* Yes, think what happens when other parts of the kernel take
+ * a reference to a page in order to pin it for io. -ben
+ */
+ if (PageLRU(page))
+ lru_cache_del(page);
+
if (page->buffers)
BUG();
if (page->mapping)
@@ -426,15 +432,6 @@
return 0;
}
-void page_cache_release(struct page *page)
-{
- if (!PageReserved(page) && put_page_testzero(page)) {
- if (PageLRU(page))
- lru_cache_del(page);
- __free_pages_ok(page, 0);
- }
-}
-
void __free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
{
if (!PageReserved(page) && put_page_testzero(page))
-
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