Fix dirty page accounting leak with ext3 data=journal
In46d2277c79("Clean up and make try_to_free_buffers() not race with dirty pages"), try_to_free_buffers was changed to bail out if the page was dirty. That in turn caused truncate_complete_page to leak massive amounts of memory, because the dirty bit was only cleared after the call to try_to_free_buffers. So the call to cancel_dirty_page was moved up to have the dirty bit cleared early in3e67c0987d("truncate: clear page dirtiness before running try_to_free_buffers()"). The problem with that fix is, that the page can be redirtied after cancel_dirty_page was called, eg. like this: truncate_complete_page() cancel_dirty_page() // PG_dirty cleared, decr. dirty pages do_invalidatepage() ext3_invalidatepage() journal_invalidatepage() journal_unmap_buffer() __dispose_buffer() __journal_unfile_buffer() __journal_temp_unlink_buffer() mark_buffer_dirty(); // PG_dirty set, incr. dirty pages And then we end up with dirty pages being wrongly accounted. As a result, inecdfc9787f("Resurrect 'try_to_free_buffers()' VM hackery") the changes to try_to_free_buffers were reverted, so the original reason for the massive memory leak is gone, and we can also revert the move of the call to cancel_dirty_page from truncate_complete_page and get the accounting right again. I'm not sure if it matters, but opposed to the final check in __remove_from_page_cache, this one also cares about the task io accounting, so maybe we want to use this instead, although it's not quite the clean fix either. Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> Tested-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Osterried <osterried@jesse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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				| @ -98,11 +98,11 @@ truncate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page) | ||||
| 	if (page->mapping != mapping) | ||||
| 		return; | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| 	cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| 	if (PagePrivate(page)) | ||||
| 		do_invalidatepage(page, 0); | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| 	cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| 	remove_from_page_cache(page); | ||||
| 	ClearPageUptodate(page); | ||||
| 	ClearPageMappedToDisk(page); | ||||
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