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authorLee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>2007-11-14 16:59:10 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-11-14 18:45:38 -0800
commit3ad33b2436b545cbe8b28e53f3710432cad457ab (patch)
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Migration: find correct vma in new_vma_page()
We hit the BUG_ON() in mm/rmap.c:vma_address() when trying to migrate via mbind(MPOL_MF_MOVE) a non-anon region that spans multiple vmas. For anon-regions, we just fail to migrate any pages beyond the 1st vma in the range. This occurs because do_mbind() collects a list of pages to migrate by calling check_range(). check_range() walks the task's mm, spanning vmas as necessary, to collect the migratable pages into a list. Then, do_mbind() calls migrate_pages() passing the list of pages, a function to allocate new pages based on vma policy [new_vma_page()], and a pointer to the first vma of the range. For each page in the list, new_vma_page() calls page_address_in_vma() passing the page and the vma [first in range] to obtain the address to get for alloc_page_vma(). The page address is needed to get interleaving policy correct. If the pages in the list come from multiple vmas, eventually, new_page_address() will pass that page to page_address_in_vma() with the incorrect vma. For !PageAnon pages, this will result in a bug check in rmap.c:vma_address(). For anon pages, vma_address() will just return EFAULT and fail the migration. This patch modifies new_vma_page() to check the return value from page_address_in_vma(). If the return value is EFAULT, new_vma_page() searchs forward via vm_next for the vma that maps the page--i.e., that does not return EFAULT. This assumes that the pages in the list handed to migrate_pages() is in address order. This is currently case. The patch documents this assumption in a new comment block for new_vma_page(). If new_vma_page() cannot locate the vma mapping the page in a forward search in the mm, it will pass a NULL vma to alloc_page_vma(). This will result in the allocation using the task policy, if any, else system default policy. This situation is unlikely, but the patch documents this behavior with a comment. Note, this patch results in restarting from the first vma in a multi-vma range each time new_vma_page() is called. If this is not acceptable, we can make the vma argument a pointer, both in new_vma_page() and it's caller unmap_and_move() so that the value held by the loop in migrate_pages() always passes down the last vma in which a page was found. This will require changes to all new_page_t functions passed to migrate_pages(). Is this necessary? For this patch to work, we can't bug check in vma_address() for pages outside the argument vma. This patch removes the BUG_ON(). All other callers [besides new_vma_page()] already check the return status. Tested on x86_64, 4 node NUMA platform. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/rmap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/rmap.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 8990f909492f..dc3be5f5b0da 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -183,7 +183,9 @@ static void page_unlock_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
}
/*
- * At what user virtual address is page expected in vma?
+ * At what user virtual address is page expected in @vma?
+ * Returns virtual address or -EFAULT if page's index/offset is not
+ * within the range mapped the @vma.
*/
static inline unsigned long
vma_address(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
@@ -193,8 +195,7 @@ vma_address(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
address = vma->vm_start + ((pgoff - vma->vm_pgoff) << PAGE_SHIFT);
if (unlikely(address < vma->vm_start || address >= vma->vm_end)) {
- /* page should be within any vma from prio_tree_next */
- BUG_ON(!PageAnon(page));
+ /* page should be within @vma mapping range */
return -EFAULT;
}
return address;