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authorTarun Sahu <tsahu@linux.ibm.com>2023-06-09 21:59:07 +0530
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-06-19 16:19:11 -0700
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mm/folio: avoid special handling for order value 0 in folio_set_order
folio_set_order(folio, 0) is used in kernel at two places __destroy_compound_gigantic_folio and __prep_compound_gigantic_folio. Currently, It is called to clear out the folio->_folio_nr_pages and folio->_folio_order. For __destroy_compound_gigantic_folio: In past, folio_set_order(folio, 0) was needed because page->mapping used to overlap with _folio_nr_pages and _folio_order. So if these fields were left uncleared during freeing gigantic hugepages, they were causing "BUG: bad page state" due to non-zero page->mapping. Now, After Commit a01f43901cfb ("hugetlb: be sure to free demoted CMA pages to CMA") page->mapping has explicitly been cleared out for tail pages. Also, _folio_order and _folio_nr_pages no longer overlaps with page->mapping. So, folio_set_order(folio, 0) can be removed from freeing gigantic folio path (__destroy_compound_gigantic_folio). Another place, folio_set_order(folio, 0) is called inside __prep_compound_gigantic_folio during error path. Here, folio_set_order(folio, 0) can also be removed if we move folio_set_order(folio, order) after for loop. The patch also moves _folio_set_head call in __prep_compound_gigantic_folio() such that we avoid clearing them in the error path. Also, as Mike pointed out: "It would actually be better to move the calls _folio_set_head and folio_set_order in __prep_compound_gigantic_folio() as suggested here. Why? In the current code, the ref count on the 'head page' is still 1 (or more) while those calls are made. So, someone could take a speculative ref on the page BEFORE the tail pages are set up." This way, folio_set_order(folio, 0) is no more needed. And it will also helps removing the confusion of folio order being set to 0 (as _folio_order field is part of first tail page). Testing: I have run LTP tests, which all passes. and also I have written the test in LTP which tests the bug caused by compound_nr and page->mapping overlapping. https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/testcases/kernel/mem/hugetlb/hugemmap/hugemmap32.c Running on older kernel ( < 5.10-rc7) with the above bug this fails while on newer kernel and, also with this patch it passes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609162907.111756-1-tsahu@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Tarun Sahu <tsahu@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/hugetlb.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c9
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index dfa412d8cb30..de96cd936b12 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1489,7 +1489,6 @@ static void __destroy_compound_gigantic_folio(struct folio *folio,
set_page_refcounted(p);
}
- folio_set_order(folio, 0);
__folio_clear_head(folio);
}
@@ -1951,9 +1950,6 @@ static bool __prep_compound_gigantic_folio(struct folio *folio,
struct page *p;
__folio_clear_reserved(folio);
- __folio_set_head(folio);
- /* we rely on prep_new_hugetlb_folio to set the destructor */
- folio_set_order(folio, order);
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
p = folio_page(folio, i);
@@ -1999,6 +1995,9 @@ static bool __prep_compound_gigantic_folio(struct folio *folio,
if (i != 0)
set_compound_head(p, &folio->page);
}
+ __folio_set_head(folio);
+ /* we rely on prep_new_hugetlb_folio to set the destructor */
+ folio_set_order(folio, order);
atomic_set(&folio->_entire_mapcount, -1);
atomic_set(&folio->_nr_pages_mapped, 0);
atomic_set(&folio->_pincount, 0);
@@ -2017,8 +2016,6 @@ out_error:
p = folio_page(folio, j);
__ClearPageReserved(p);
}
- folio_set_order(folio, 0);
- __folio_clear_head(folio);
return false;
}