X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=mm%2Fmigrate.c;h=449d77d409f52622bbf825b7fd17d43df7ff5fbf;hb=89f92d6425b099538932e9b881588f87ef9f3184;hp=a73504ff5ab982007b2e0355e49f0dedcac65899;hpb=0b61a2ba5dfd1620731e717d686e6ade657fd975;p=~andy%2Flinux

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index a73504ff5ab..449d77d409f 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -153,11 +153,6 @@ static void remove_migration_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
  		return;
  	}
 
-	if (mem_cgroup_charge(new, mm, GFP_KERNEL)) {
-		pte_unmap(ptep);
-		return;
-	}
-
  	ptl = pte_lockptr(mm, pmd);
  	spin_lock(ptl);
 	pte = *ptep;
@@ -169,6 +164,20 @@ static void remove_migration_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (!is_migration_entry(entry) || migration_entry_to_page(entry) != old)
 		goto out;
 
+	/*
+	 * Yes, ignore the return value from a GFP_ATOMIC mem_cgroup_charge.
+	 * Failure is not an option here: we're now expected to remove every
+	 * migration pte, and will cause crashes otherwise.  Normally this
+	 * is not an issue: mem_cgroup_prepare_migration bumped up the old
+	 * page_cgroup count for safety, that's now attached to the new page,
+	 * so this charge should just be another incrementation of the count,
+	 * to keep in balance with rmap.c's mem_cgroup_uncharging.  But if
+	 * there's been a force_empty, those reference counts may no longer
+	 * be reliable, and this charge can actually fail: oh well, we don't
+	 * make the situation any worse by proceeding as if it had succeeded.
+	 */
+	mem_cgroup_charge(new, mm, GFP_ATOMIC);
+
 	get_page(new);
 	pte = pte_mkold(mk_pte(new, vma->vm_page_prot));
 	if (is_write_migration_entry(entry))
@@ -374,7 +383,14 @@ static void migrate_page_copy(struct page *newpage, struct page *page)
 
 	if (PageDirty(page)) {
 		clear_page_dirty_for_io(page);
-		set_page_dirty(newpage);
+		/*
+		 * Want to mark the page and the radix tree as dirty, and
+		 * redo the accounting that clear_page_dirty_for_io undid,
+		 * but we can't use set_page_dirty because that function
+		 * is actually a signal that all of the page has become dirty.
+		 * Wheras only part of our page may be dirty.
+		 */
+		__set_page_dirty_nobuffers(newpage);
  	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP