The patch titled Subject: khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() protect the pmd lock has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is khugepaged-collapse_pte_mapped_thp-protect-the-pmd-lock.patch

This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/khugepaged-collapse_pte_mapped_thp-... and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/khugepaged-collapse_pte_mapped_thp-...

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Subject: khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() protect the pmd lock

When retract_page_tables() removes a page table to make way for a huge pmd, it holds huge page lock, i_mmap_lock_write, mmap_write_trylock and pmd lock; but when collapse_pte_mapped_thp() does the same (to handle the case when the original mmap_write_trylock had failed), only mmap_write_trylock and pmd lock are held.

That's not enough. One machine has twice crashed under load, with "BUG: spinlock bad magic" and GPF on 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b. Examining the second crash, page_vma_mapped_walk_done()'s spin_unlock of pvmw->ptl (serving page_referenced() on a file THP, that had found a page table at *pmd) discovers that the page table page and its lock have already been freed by the time it comes to unlock.

Follow the example of retract_page_tables(), but we only need one of huge page lock or i_mmap_lock_write to secure against this: because it's the narrower lock, and because it simplifies collapse_pte_mapped_thp() to know the hpage earlier, choose to rely on huge page lock here.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2008021213070.27773@eggly.anvils Fixes: 27e1f8273113 ("khugepaged: enable collapse pmd for pte-mapped THP") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Cc: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Cc: Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com Cc: Song Liu songliubraving@fb.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [5.4+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/khugepaged.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/khugepaged.c~khugepaged-collapse_pte_mapped_thp-protect-the-pmd-lock +++ a/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -1412,7 +1412,7 @@ void collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_s { unsigned long haddr = addr & HPAGE_PMD_MASK; struct vm_area_struct *vma = find_vma(mm, haddr); - struct page *hpage = NULL; + struct page *hpage; pte_t *start_pte, *pte; pmd_t *pmd, _pmd; spinlock_t *ptl; @@ -1432,9 +1432,17 @@ void collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_s if (!hugepage_vma_check(vma, vma->vm_flags | VM_HUGEPAGE)) return;

+ hpage = find_lock_page(vma->vm_file->f_mapping, + linear_page_index(vma, haddr)); + if (!hpage) + return; + + if (!PageHead(hpage)) + goto drop_hpage; + pmd = mm_find_pmd(mm, haddr); if (!pmd) - return; + goto drop_hpage;

start_pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, haddr, &ptl);

@@ -1453,30 +1461,11 @@ void collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_s

page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, *pte);

- if (!page || !PageCompound(page)) - goto abort; - - if (!hpage) { - hpage = compound_head(page); - /* - * The mapping of the THP should not change. - * - * Note that uprobe, debugger, or MAP_PRIVATE may - * change the page table, but the new page will - * not pass PageCompound() check. - */ - if (WARN_ON(hpage->mapping != vma->vm_file->f_mapping)) - goto abort; - } - /* - * Confirm the page maps to the correct subpage. - * - * Note that uprobe, debugger, or MAP_PRIVATE may change - * the page table, but the new page will not pass - * PageCompound() check. + * Note that uprobe, debugger, or MAP_PRIVATE may change the + * page table, but the new page will not be a subpage of hpage. */ - if (WARN_ON(hpage + i != page)) + if (hpage + i != page) goto abort; count++; } @@ -1495,7 +1484,7 @@ void collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_s pte_unmap_unlock(start_pte, ptl);

/* step 3: set proper refcount and mm_counters. */ - if (hpage) { + if (count) { page_ref_sub(hpage, count); add_mm_counter(vma->vm_mm, mm_counter_file(hpage), -count); } @@ -1506,10 +1495,15 @@ void collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_s spin_unlock(ptl); mm_dec_nr_ptes(mm); pte_free(mm, pmd_pgtable(_pmd)); + +drop_hpage: + unlock_page(hpage); + put_page(hpage); return;

abort: pte_unmap_unlock(start_pte, ptl); + goto drop_hpage; }

static int khugepaged_collapse_pte_mapped_thps(struct mm_slot *mm_slot) _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@google.com are

mm-memcontrol-decouple-reference-counting-from-page-accounting-fix.patch khugepaged-collapse_pte_mapped_thp-flush-the-right-range.patch khugepaged-collapse_pte_mapped_thp-protect-the-pmd-lock.patch khugepaged-retract_page_tables-remember-to-test-exit.patch khugepaged-khugepaged_test_exit-check-mmget_still_valid.patch