Fix dirty page accounting leak with ext3 data=journal
In
46d2277c796f9f4937bfa668c40b2e3f43e93dd0 ("Clean up and make
try_to_free_buffers() not race with dirty pages"), try_to_free_buffers
was changed to bail out if the page was dirty.
That in turn caused truncate_complete_page to leak massive amounts of
memory, because the dirty bit was only cleared after the call to
try_to_free_buffers.
So the call to cancel_dirty_page was moved up to have the dirty bit
cleared early in
3e67c0987d7567ad666641164a153dca9a43b11d ("truncate:
clear page dirtiness before running try_to_free_buffers()").
The problem with that fix is, that the page can be redirtied after
cancel_dirty_page was called, eg. like this:
truncate_complete_page()
cancel_dirty_page() // PG_dirty cleared, decr. dirty pages
do_invalidatepage()
ext3_invalidatepage()
journal_invalidatepage()
journal_unmap_buffer()
__dispose_buffer()
__journal_unfile_buffer()
__journal_temp_unlink_buffer()
mark_buffer_dirty(); // PG_dirty set, incr. dirty pages
And then we end up with dirty pages being wrongly accounted.
As a result, in
ecdfc9787fe527491baefc22dce8b2dbd5b2908d ("Resurrect
'try_to_free_buffers()' VM hackery") the changes to try_to_free_buffers
were reverted, so the original reason for the massive memory leak is
gone, and we can also revert the move of the call to cancel_dirty_page
from truncate_complete_page and get the accounting right again.
I'm not sure if it matters, but opposed to the final check in
__remove_from_page_cache, this one also cares about the task io
accounting, so maybe we want to use this instead, although it's not
quite the clean fix either.
Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Osterried <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>