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author | Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> | 2021-06-15 18:23:53 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-06-16 09:24:42 -0700 |
commit | 732ed55823fc3ad998d43b86bf771887bcc5ec67 (patch) | |
tree | a1df9c1b8e346b6c861d8c6b2d5ec08ebc1e3aaf /include/linux/rmap.h | |
parent | 3b77e8c8cde581dadab9a0f1543a347e24315f11 (diff) | |
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mm/thp: try_to_unmap() use TTU_SYNC for safe splitting
Stressing huge tmpfs often crashed on unmap_page()'s VM_BUG_ON_PAGE
(!unmap_success): with dump_page() showing mapcount:1, but then its raw
struct page output showing _mapcount ffffffff i.e. mapcount 0.
And even if that particular VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!unmap_success) is removed,
it is immediately followed by a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_mapcount(head)),
and further down an IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM) total_mapcount BUG():
all indicative of some mapcount difficulty in development here perhaps.
But the !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM path handles the failures correctly and
silently.
I believe the problem is that once a racing unmap has cleared pte or
pmd, try_to_unmap_one() may skip taking the page table lock, and emerge
from try_to_unmap() before the racing task has reached decrementing
mapcount.
Instead of abandoning the unsafe VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(), and the ones that
follow, use PVMW_SYNC in try_to_unmap_one() in this case: adding
TTU_SYNC to the options, and passing that from unmap_page().
When CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, or for non-debug too? Consensus is to do the same
for both: the slight overhead added should rarely matter, except perhaps
if splitting sparsely-populated multiply-mapped shmem. Once confident
that bugs are fixed, TTU_SYNC here can be removed, and the race
tolerated.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c1e95853-8bcd-d8fd-55fa-e7f2488e78f@google.com
Fixes: fec89c109f3a ("thp: rewrite freeze_page()/unfreeze_page() with generic rmap walkers")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jue Wang <juew@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Wang Yugui <wangyugui@e16-tech.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rmap.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rmap.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h index def5c62c93b3..8d04e7deedc6 100644 --- a/include/linux/rmap.h +++ b/include/linux/rmap.h @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ enum ttu_flags { TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD = 0x4, /* split huge PMD if any */ TTU_IGNORE_MLOCK = 0x8, /* ignore mlock */ + TTU_SYNC = 0x10, /* avoid racy checks with PVMW_SYNC */ TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON = 0x20, /* corrupted page is recoverable */ TTU_BATCH_FLUSH = 0x40, /* Batch TLB flushes where possible * and caller guarantees they will |