mm/filemap: fix storing to a THP shadow entry
When a THP is removed from the page cache by reclaim, we replace it with a shadow entry that occupies all slots of the XArray previously occupied by the THP. If the user then accesses that page again, we only allocate a single page, but storing it into the shadow entry replaces all entries with that one page. That leads to bugs like page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_to_pgoff(page) != offset) ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:2529! https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206569 This is hard to reproduce with mainline, but happens regularly with the THP patchset (as so many more THPs are created). This solution is take from the THP patchset. It splits the shadow entry into order-0 pieces at the time that we bring a new page into cache. Fixes: 99cb0dbd ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS") Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200903183029.14930-4-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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