Am Samstag, 15. Dezember 2018, 16:01:30 CET schrieb Richard Weinberger:
> The page migration code assumes that a page with PG_private
> set has its page count elevated by 1.
> UBIFS never did this and therefore the migration code was unable
> to migrate some pages owned by UBIFS.
> The lead to situations where the CMA memory allocator failed to
> allocate memory.
>
> Fix this by using get/put_page when changing PG_private.
>
> Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: zhangjun <openzha...@gmail.com>
> Fixes: 4ac1c17b2044 ("UBIFS: Implement ->migratepage()")
> Reported-by: zhangjun <openzha...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at>
FYI, on the XFS side a similar change caused a regression.
https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=154530861202448&w=2
Until this regression is not fully understood, including the implications
for UBIFS, I'll not merge this patch.
Thanks,
//richard
