From 90b3feaec8ffb167abd8903bf111605c2f035aa8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:19:54 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] memcg: fix mem_cgroup_print_bad_page
If DEBUG_VM, mem_cgroup_print_bad_page() is called whenever bad_page()
shows a "Bad page state" message, removes page from circulation, adds a
taint and continues. This is at a very low level, often when a spinlock
is held (sometimes when page table lock is held, for example).
We want to recover from this badness, not make it worse: we must not
kmalloc memory here, we must not do a cgroup path lookup via dubious
pointers. No doubt that code was useful to debug a particular case at one
time, and may be again, but take it out of the mainline kernel.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 17 +----------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 9f2f64697409a..602207be98537 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3364,23 +3364,8 @@ void mem_cgroup_print_bad_page(struct page *page)
pc = lookup_page_cgroup_used(page);
if (pc) {
- int ret = -1;
- char *path;
-
- printk(KERN_ALERT "pc:%p pc->flags:%lx pc->mem_cgroup:%p",
+ printk(KERN_ALERT "pc:%p pc->flags:%lx pc->mem_cgroup:%p\n",
pc, pc->flags, pc->mem_cgroup);
-
- path = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (path) {
- rcu_read_lock();
- ret = cgroup_path(pc->mem_cgroup->css.cgroup,
- path, PATH_MAX);
- rcu_read_unlock();
- }
-
- printk(KERN_CONT "(%s)\n",
- (ret < 0) ? "cannot get the path" : path);
- kfree(path);
}
}
#endif
--
2.30.2