mm: fix slab->page _count corruption when using slub
On arches that do not support this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() slab_lock is used to do atomic cmpxchg() on double word which contains page->_count. The page count can be changed from get_page() or put_page() without taking slab_lock. That corrupts page counter. Fix it by moving page->_count out of cmpxchg_double data. So that slub does no change it while updating slub meta-data in struct page. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use standard comment layout, tweak comment text] Reported-by: Amey Bhide <abhide@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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