On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Minchan Kim wrote:
Hi Huang,
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:27:50PM +0800, huang ying wrote:
On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Huang, Ying ying.huang@intel.com wrote:
From: Huang Ying huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com
It was reported by Sergey Senozhatsky that if THP (Transparent Huge Page) and frontswap (via zswap) are both enabled, when memory goes low so that swap is triggered, segfault and memory corruption will occur in random user space applications as follow,
kernel: urxvt[338]: segfault at 20 ip 00007fc08889ae0d sp 00007ffc73a7fc40 error 6 in libc-2.26.so[7fc08881a000+1ae000] #0 0x00007fc08889ae0d _int_malloc (libc.so.6) #1 0x00007fc08889c2f3 malloc (libc.so.6) #2 0x0000560e6004bff7 _Z14rxvt_wcstoutf8PKwi (urxvt) #3 0x0000560e6005e75c n/a (urxvt) #4 0x0000560e6007d9f1 _ZN16rxvt_perl_interp6invokeEP9rxvt_term9hook_typez (urxvt) #5 0x0000560e6003d988 _ZN9rxvt_term9cmd_parseEv (urxvt) #6 0x0000560e60042804 _ZN9rxvt_term6pty_cbERN2ev2ioEi (urxvt) #7 0x0000560e6005c10f _Z17ev_invoke_pendingv (urxvt) #8 0x0000560e6005cb55 ev_run (urxvt) #9 0x0000560e6003b9b9 main (urxvt) #10 0x00007fc08883af4a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6) #11 0x0000560e6003f9da _start (urxvt)
After bisection, it was found the first bad commit is bd4c82c22c367e068 ("mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP after swapped out").
The root cause is as follow.
When the pages are written to swap device during swapping out in swap_writepage(), zswap (fontswap) is tried to compress the pages instead to improve the performance. But zswap (frontswap) will treat THP as normal page, so only the head page is saved. After swapping in, tail pages will not be restored to its original contents, so cause the memory corruption in the applications.
This is fixed via splitting THP before writing the page to swap device if frontswap is enabled. To deal with the situation where frontswap is enabled at runtime, whether the page is THP is checked before using frontswap during swapping out too.
Reported-and-tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" ying.huang@intel.com Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: Dan Streetman ddstreet@ieee.org Cc: Seth Jennings sjenning@redhat.com Cc: Minchan Kim minchan@kernel.org Cc: Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Cc: Shaohua Li shli@kernel.org Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Mel Gorman mgorman@techsingularity.net Cc: Shakeel Butt shakeelb@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14 Fixes: bd4c82c22c367e068 ("mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP after swapped out")
Changelog:
v2:
- Move frontswap check into swapfile.c to avoid to make vmscan.c depends on frontswap.
mm/page_io.c | 2 +- mm/swapfile.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c index b41cf9644585..6dca817ae7a0 100644 --- a/mm/page_io.c +++ b/mm/page_io.c @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ int swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc) unlock_page(page); goto out; }
if (frontswap_store(page) == 0) {
if (!PageTransHuge(page) && frontswap_store(page) == 0) { set_page_writeback(page); unlock_page(page); end_page_writeback(page);diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index 006047b16814..0b7c7883ce64 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -934,6 +934,9 @@ int get_swap_pages(int n_goal, bool cluster, swp_entry_t swp_entries[])
/* Only single cluster request supported */ WARN_ON_ONCE(n_goal > 1 && cluster);
/* Frontswap doesn't support THP */if (frontswap_enabled() && cluster)goto noswap;I found this will cause THP swap optimization be turned off forever if CONFIG_ZSWAP=y (which cannot =m). Because frontswap is enabled quite statically instead of dynamically. If frontswap_ops is registered, it will be enabled unconditionally and forever. And zswap will register frontswap_ops during initialize regardless whether zswap is enabled or not.
Indeed.
So I think it will be better to remove swapfile.c changes in this patch, just keep page_io.c changes. Because THP is more dynamic, it
Then, I think it should be done by frontswap backend rather than generic swap layer. Because there are two backends now and one of them can support first.
I like this approach. It allows zswap or xen tmem to support THP in the future.
diff --git a/drivers/xen/tmem.c b/drivers/xen/tmem.c index bf13d1ec51f3..bdaf309aeea6 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/tmem.c +++ b/drivers/xen/tmem.c @@ -284,6 +284,9 @@ static int tmem_frontswap_store(unsigned type, pgoff_t offset, int pool = tmem_frontswap_poolid; int ret;
if (PageTransHuge(page))return -EINVAL;if (pool < 0) return -1; if (ind64 != ind)diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c index c004aa4fd3f4..e343534d2892 100644 --- a/mm/zswap.c +++ b/mm/zswap.c @@ -1007,6 +1007,9 @@ static int zswap_frontswap_store(unsigned type, pgoff_t offset, u8 *src, *dst; struct zswap_header zhdr = { .swpentry = swp_entry(type, offset) };
if (PageTransHuge(page))return -EINVAL;if (!zswap_enabled || !tree) { ret = -ENODEV; goto reject;