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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2021-09-02 14:54:34 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-09-03 09:58:12 -0700
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parentc852023e6fd4fa5f75175729e0b55abb062ca799 (diff)
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huge tmpfs: SGP_NOALLOC to stop collapse_file() on race
khugepaged's collapse_file() currently uses SGP_NOHUGE to tell shmem_getpage() not to try allocating a huge page, in the very unlikely event that a racing hole-punch removes the swapped or fallocated page as soon as i_pages lock is dropped. We want to consolidate shmem's huge decisions, removing SGP_HUGE and SGP_NOHUGE; but cannot quite persuade ourselves that it's okay to regress the protection in this case - Yang Shi points out that the huge page would remain indefinitely, charged to root instead of the intended memcg. collapse_file() should not even allocate a small page in this case: why proceed if someone is punching a hole? SGP_READ is almost the right flag here, except that it optimizes away from a fallocated page, with NULL to tell caller to fill with zeroes (like a hole); whereas collapse_file()'s sequence relies on using a cache page. Add SGP_NOALLOC just for this. There are too many consecutive "if (page"s there in shmem_getpage_gfp(): group it better; and fix the outdated "bring it back from swap" comment. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1355343b-acf-4653-ef79-6aee40214ac5@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index b0412be08fa2..045cc579f724 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1721,7 +1721,7 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
/* swap in or instantiate fallocated page */
if (shmem_getpage(mapping->host, index, &page,
- SGP_NOHUGE)) {
+ SGP_NOALLOC)) {
result = SCAN_FAIL;
goto xa_unlocked;
}