[PATCH] mm: Fix force_flush behavior in zap_pte_range()

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Sat May 03 2014 - 19:38:04 EST


Commit 1cf35d47 (mm: split 'tlb_flush_mmu()' into tlb flushing and memory freeing parts)
accidently changed the behavior of the force_flush variable.
Before the patch it was set by __tlb_remove_page(). Now it is only set to 1
if __tlb_remove_page() returns false but never set back to 0 if __tlb_remove_page()
returns true. And therefore the flush happens now too often.
This patch restores the old behavior.

Fixes BUG: Bad rss-counter state ...
and
kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:202!

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: toralf.foerster@xxxxxx
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: toralf.foerster@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 037b812..585885b 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1148,10 +1148,10 @@ again:
page_remove_rmap(page);
if (unlikely(page_mapcount(page) < 0))
print_bad_pte(vma, addr, ptent, page);
- if (unlikely(!__tlb_remove_page(tlb, page))) {
- force_flush = 1;
+ force_flush = !__tlb_remove_page(tlb, page);
+ if (force_flush)
break;
- }
+
continue;
}
/*
--
1.8.1.4

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