3.6.11.6 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Leonid Yegoshin <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit c2cc499c5bcf9040a738f49e8051b42078205748 ]

Page 'new' during MIGRATION can't be flushed with flush_cache_page().
Using flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pfn) is justified only if the page is
already placed in process page table, and that is done right after
flush_cache_page().  But without it the arch function has no knowledge
of process PTE and does nothing.

Besides that, flush_cache_page() flushes an application cache page, but
the kernel has a different page virtual address and dirtied it.

Replace it with flush_dcache_page(new) which is the proper usage.

The old page is flushed in try_to_unmap_one() before migration.

This bug takes place in Sead3 board with M14Kc MIPS CPU without cache
aliasing (but Harvard arch - separate I and D cache) in tight memory
environment (128MB) each 1-3days on SOAK test.  It fails in cc1 during
kernel build (SIGILL, SIGBUS, SIGSEG) if CONFIG_COMPACTION is switched
ON.

Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin <[email protected]>
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: David Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
---
 mm/migrate.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 77ed2d7..a303524 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static int remove_migration_pte(struct page *new, struct 
vm_area_struct *vma,
        if (PageHuge(new))
                pte = pte_mkhuge(pte);
 #endif
-       flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pte_pfn(pte));
+       flush_dcache_page(new);
        set_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, pte);
 
        if (PageHuge(new)) {
-- 
1.7.10.4


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