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mm: don't return 0 too early from find_get_pages()

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Callers of find_get_pages(), or its wrapper pagevec_lookup() - notably
truncate_inode_pages_range() - stop looking further when it returns 0.

But if an interrupt comes just after its radix_tree_gang_lookup_slot(),
especially if we have preemptible RCU enabled, isn't it conceivable that
all 14 pages returned could be removed from the page cache by
shrink_page_list(), before find_get_pages() gets to process them?  So
causing it to return 0 although there may be plenty more pages beyond.

Make find_get_pages() and find_get_pages_tag() check for this unlikely
case, and restart should it occur; but callers of find_get_pages_contig()
have no such expectation, it's okay for that to return 0 early.

I have not seen this in practice, just worried by the possibility.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hugh Dickins 2011-03-22 16:33:07 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9d8aa4ea85
commit 5b280c0cc7
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@ -885,6 +885,13 @@ repeat:
pages[ret] = page;
ret++;
}
/*
* If all entries were removed before we could secure them,
* try again, because callers stop trying once 0 is returned.
*/
if (unlikely(!ret && nr_found))
goto restart;
rcu_read_unlock();
return ret;
}
@ -1004,6 +1011,13 @@ repeat:
pages[ret] = page;
ret++;
}
/*
* If all entries were removed before we could secure them,
* try again, because callers stop trying once 0 is returned.
*/
if (unlikely(!ret && nr_found))
goto restart;
rcu_read_unlock();
if (ret)