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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> | 2009-12-15 02:59:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-15 17:53:17 +0100 |
| commit | d99be1a8ecf377c2c9b3372d36411ad6547bbd4c (patch) | |
| tree | 844a156da951783a46f9cfd0e66858eae12e5f54 /mm | |
| parent | mm: stop ptlock enlarging struct page (diff) | |
| download | linux-d99be1a8ecf377c2c9b3372d36411ad6547bbd4c.tar.xz linux-d99be1a8ecf377c2c9b3372d36411ad6547bbd4c.zip | |
mm: sigbus instead of abusing oom
When do_nonlinear_fault() realizes that the page table must have been
corrupted for it to have been called, it does print_bad_pte() and returns
... VM_FAULT_OOM, which is hard to understand.
It made some sense when I did it for 2.6.15, when do_page_fault() just
killed the current process; but nowadays it lets the OOM killer decide who
to kill - so page table corruption in one process would be liable to kill
another.
Change it to return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS instead: that doesn't guarantee that
the process will be killed, but is good enough for such a rare
abnormality, accompanied as it is by the "BUG: Bad page map" message.
And recent HWPOISON work has copied that code into do_swap_page(), when it
finds an impossible swap entry: fix that to VM_FAULT_SIGBUS too.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 543c446bf4ed..1c9dc46da3db 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -2527,7 +2527,7 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, ret = VM_FAULT_HWPOISON; } else { print_bad_pte(vma, address, orig_pte, NULL); - ret = VM_FAULT_OOM; + ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; } goto out; } @@ -2923,7 +2923,7 @@ static int do_nonlinear_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, * Page table corrupted: show pte and kill process. */ print_bad_pte(vma, address, orig_pte, NULL); - return VM_FAULT_OOM; + return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; } pgoff = pte_to_pgoff(orig_pte); |