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| author | Pravin B Shelar | 2012-06-20 21:52:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2012-06-20 23:39:35 +0200 |
| commit | abca7c4965845924f65d40e0aa1092bdd895e314 (patch) | |
| tree | 18d908b58243b6f46cadfa4515d6370299c88d3f /arch/x86 | |
| parent | Linux 3.5-rc3 (diff) | |
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mm: fix slab->page _count corruption when using slub
On arches that do not support this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() slab_lock is used
to do atomic cmpxchg() on double word which contains page->_count. The
page count can be changed from get_page() or put_page() without taking
slab_lock. That corrupts page counter.
Fix it by moving page->_count out of cmpxchg_double data. So that slub
does no change it while updating slub meta-data in struct page.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use standard comment layout, tweak comment text]
Reported-by: Amey Bhide <abhide@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
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