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    mm: fix s390 BUG by __set_page_dirty_no_writeback on swap · 56bd028d
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    Mel reports a BUG_ON(slot == NULL) in radix_tree_tag_set() on s390
    3.0.13: called from __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() when page_remove_rmap()
    tries to transfer dirty flag from s390 storage key to struct page and
    radix_tree.
    
    That would be because of reclaim's shrink_page_list() calling
    add_to_swap() on this page at the same time: first PageSwapCache is set
    (causing page_mapping(page) to appear as &swapper_space), then
    page->private set, then tree_lock taken, then page inserted into
    radix_tree - so there's an interval before taking the lock when the
    radix_tree slot is empty.
    
    We could fix this by moving __add_to_swap_cache()'s spin_lock_irq up
    before the SetPageSwapCache.  But a better fix is simply to do what's
    five years overdue: Ken Chen introduced __set_page_dirty_no_writeback()
    (if !PageDirty TestSetPageDirty) for tmpfs to skip all the radix_tree
    overhead, and swap is just the same - it ignores the radix_tree tag, and
    does not participate in dirty page accounting, so should be using
    __set_page_dirty_no_writeback() too.
    
    s390 testing now confirms that this does indeed fix the problem.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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