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CMA page migration failure due to buffers on bh_lru

Message ID 504122BE.8080706@codeaurora.org
State New
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Laura Abbott Aug. 31, 2012, 8:46 p.m. UTC 
On 8/29/2012 6:03 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:

> My quick and dirty workaround for testing is to remove the GFP_MOVABLE
> flag from find_or_create_page but this seems significantly less than
> optimal. Ideally, it seems like the buffers should be evicted from the
> LRU when trying to drop (expand on invalid_bh_lru?) but I'm not familiar
> enough with the code path to know if this is a good approach.
>
> Any suggestions/feedback is appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Laura

I came up with what I think is a reasonable fix to this. Feedback is 
appreciated. Thanks.

Laura


8<---

  		if (buffer_busy(bh))
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diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index ad5938c..daa0c3d 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1399,12 +1399,49 @@  static bool has_bh_in_lru(int cpu, void *dummy)
  	return 0;
  }

+static void __evict_bh_lru(void *arg)
+{
+	struct bh_lru *b = &get_cpu_var(bh_lrus);
+	struct buffer_head *bh = arg;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < BH_LRU_SIZE; i++) {
+		if (b->bhs[i] == bh) {
+			brelse(b->bhs[i]);
+			b->bhs[i] = NULL;
+			goto out;
+		}
+	}
+out:
+	put_cpu_var(bh_lrus);
+}
+
+static bool bh_exists_in_lru(int cpu, void *arg)
+{
+	struct bh_lru *b = per_cpu_ptr(&bh_lrus, cpu);
+	struct buffer_head *bh = arg;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < BH_LRU_SIZE; i++) {
+		if (b->bhs[i] == bh)
+			return 1;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+
+}
  void invalidate_bh_lrus(void)
  {
  	on_each_cpu_cond(has_bh_in_lru, invalidate_bh_lru, NULL, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(invalidate_bh_lrus);

+void evict_bh_lrus(struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+	on_each_cpu_cond(bh_exists_in_lru, __evict_bh_lru, bh, 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(evict_bh_lrus);
+
  void set_bh_page(struct buffer_head *bh,
  		struct page *page, unsigned long offset)
  {
@@ -3052,6 +3089,7 @@  drop_buffers(struct page *page, struct buffer_head 
**buffers_to_free)

  	bh = head;
  	do {
+		evict_bh_lrus(bh);
  		if (buffer_write_io_error(bh) && page->mapping)
  			set_bit(AS_EIO, &page->mapping->flags);