Dave Jones reports the following crash when find_get_pages_tag() runs
into an exceptional entry:
kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1347!
RIP: find_get_pages_tag+0x1cb/0x220
Call Trace:
find_get_pages_tag+0x36/0x220
pagevec_lookup_tag+0x21/0x30
filemap_fdatawait_range+0xbe/0x1e0
filemap_fdatawait+0x27/0x30
sync_inodes_sb+0x204/0x2a0
sync_inodes_one_sb+0x19/0x20
iterate_supers+0xb2/0x110
sys_sync+0x44/0xb0
ia32_do_call+0x13/0x13
1343 /*
1344 * This function is never used on a shmem/tmpfs
1345 * mapping, so a swap entry won't be found here.
1346 */
1347 BUG();
After commit 0cd6144aad ("mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in
page cache radix trees") this comment and BUG() are out of date because
exceptional entries can now appear in all mappings - as shadows of
recently evicted pages.
However, as Hugh Dickins notes,
"it is truly surprising for a PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK (and probably
any other PAGECACHE_TAG_*) to appear on an exceptional entry.
I expect it comes down to an occasional race in RCU lookup of the
radix_tree: lacking absolute synchronization, we might sometimes
catch an exceptional entry, with the tag which really belongs with
the unexceptional entry which was there an instant before."
And indeed, not only is the tree walk lockless, the tags are also read
in chunks, one radix tree node at a time. There is plenty of time for
page reclaim to swoop in and replace a page that was already looked up
as tagged with a shadow entry.
Remove the BUG() and update the comment. While reviewing all other
lookup sites for whether they properly deal with shadow entries of
evicted pages, update all the comments and fix memcg file charge moving
to not miss shmem/tmpfs swapcache pages.
Fixes: 0cd6144aad ("mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache radix trees")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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