tree 299fc6452057660ce3626e9e8c00d675d6647423
parent 49e068f0b73dd042c186ffa9b420a9943e90389a
author Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 1399405805 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1399406699 -0700

mm: filemap: update find_get_pages_tag() to deal with shadow entries

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 0cd6144aadd2 ("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page cache radix trees") this comment and BUG() are out of date because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: 0cd6144aadd2 ("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>