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Commit 240a5915 authored by Chao Yu's avatar Chao Yu Committed by Jaegeuk Kim
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f2fs: fix to add refcount once page is tagged PG_private

As Gao Xiang reported in bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202749

f2fs may skip pageout() due to incorrect page reference count.

The problem here is that MM defined the rule [1] very clearly that
once page was set with PG_private flag, we should increment the
refcount in that page, also main flows like pageout(), migrate_page()
will assume there is one additional page reference count if
page_has_private() returns true.

But currently, f2fs won't add/del refcount when changing PG_private
flag. Anyway, f2fs should follow MM's rule to make MM's related flows
running as expected.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2b19b3c4-2bc4-15fa-15cc-27a13e5c7af1@aol.com/



Reported-by: default avatarGao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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