The patch titled Subject: mm/ksm.c: don't WARN if page is still mapped in remove_stable_node() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-ksm-dont-warn-if-page-is-still-mapped-in-remove_stable_node.patch

This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-ksm-dont-warn-if-page-is-still-m... and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-ksm-dont-warn-if-page-is-still-m...

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Subject: mm/ksm.c: don't WARN if page is still mapped in remove_stable_node()

It's possible to hit the WARN_ON_ONCE(page_mapped(page)) in remove_stable_node() when it races with __mmput() and squeezes in between ksm_exit() and exit_mmap().

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3295 at mm/ksm.c:888 remove_stable_node+0x10c/0x150

Call Trace: remove_all_stable_nodes+0x12b/0x330 run_store+0x4ef/0x7b0 kernfs_fop_write+0x200/0x420 vfs_write+0x154/0x450 ksys_write+0xf9/0x1d0 do_syscall_64+0x99/0x510 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

Remove the warning as there is nothing scary going on.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191119131850.5675-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Fixes: cbf86cfe04a6 ("ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly") Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Cc: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Cc: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/ksm.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/ksm.c~mm-ksm-dont-warn-if-page-is-still-mapped-in-remove_stable_node +++ a/mm/ksm.c @@ -885,13 +885,13 @@ static int remove_stable_node(struct sta return 0; }

- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(page_mapped(page))) { - /* - * This should not happen: but if it does, just refuse to let - * merge_across_nodes be switched - there is no need to panic. - */ - err = -EBUSY; - } else { + /* + * Page could be still mapped if this races with __mmput() running in + * between ksm_exit() and exit_mmap(). Just refuse to let + * merge_across_nodes/max_page_sharing be switched. + */ + err = -EBUSY; + if (!page_mapped(page)) { /* * The stable node did not yet appear stale to get_ksm_page(), * since that allows for an unmapped ksm page to be recognized _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from aryabinin@virtuozzo.com are

mm-ksm-dont-warn-if-page-is-still-mapped-in-remove_stable_node.patch mm-vmscan-remove-unused-lru_pages-argument.patch