From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Subject: mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() without freezing new_page

khugepaged's collapse_shmem() does almost all of its work, to assemble the huge new_page from 512 scattered old pages, with the new_page's refcount frozen to 0 (and refcounts of all old pages so far also frozen to 0). Including shmem_getpage() to read in any which were out on swap, memory reclaim if necessary to allocate their intermediate pages, and copying over all the data from old to new.

Imagine the frozen refcount as a spinlock held, but without any lock debugging to highlight the abuse: it's not good, and under serious load heads into lockups - speculative getters of the page are not expecting to spin while khugepaged is rescheduled.

One can get a little further under load by hacking around elsewhere; but fortunately, freezing the new_page turns out to have been entirely unnecessary, with no hacks needed elsewhere.

The huge new_page lock is already held throughout, and guards all its subpages as they are brought one by one into the page cache tree; and anything reading the data in that page, without the lock, before it has been marked PageUptodate, would already be in the wrong. So simply eliminate the freezing of the new_page.

Each of the old pages remains frozen with refcount 0 after it has been replaced by a new_page subpage in the page cache tree, until they are all unfrozen on success or failure: just as before. They could be unfrozen sooner, but cause no problem once no longer visible to find_get_entry(), filemap_map_pages() and other speculative lookups.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1811261527570.2275@eggly.anvils Fixes: f3f0e1d2150b2 ("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Cc: Jerome Glisse jglisse@redhat.com Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru Cc: Matthew Wilcox willy@infradead.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [4.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/khugepaged.c | 19 +++++++------------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/khugepaged.c~mm-khugepaged-collapse_shmem-without-freezing-new_page +++ a/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -1287,7 +1287,7 @@ static void retract_page_tables(struct a * collapse_shmem - collapse small tmpfs/shmem pages into huge one. * * Basic scheme is simple, details are more complex: - * - allocate and freeze a new huge page; + * - allocate and lock a new huge page; * - scan page cache replacing old pages with the new one * + swap in pages if necessary; * + fill in gaps; @@ -1295,11 +1295,11 @@ static void retract_page_tables(struct a * - if replacing succeeds: * + copy data over; * + free old pages; - * + unfreeze huge page; + * + unlock huge page; * - if replacing failed; * + put all pages back and unfreeze them; * + restore gaps in the page cache; - * + free huge page; + * + unlock and free huge page; */ static void collapse_shmem(struct mm_struct *mm, struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t start, @@ -1333,13 +1333,11 @@ static void collapse_shmem(struct mm_str __SetPageSwapBacked(new_page); new_page->index = start; new_page->mapping = mapping; - BUG_ON(!page_ref_freeze(new_page, 1));

/* - * At this point the new_page is 'frozen' (page_count() is zero), - * locked and not up-to-date. It's safe to insert it into the page - * cache, because nobody would be able to map it or use it in other - * way until we unfreeze it. + * At this point the new_page is locked and not up-to-date. + * It's safe to insert it into the page cache, because nobody would + * be able to map it or use it in another way until we unlock it. */

/* This will be less messy when we use multi-index entries */ @@ -1491,9 +1489,8 @@ xa_unlocked: index++; }

- /* Everything is ready, let's unfreeze the new_page */ SetPageUptodate(new_page); - page_ref_unfreeze(new_page, HPAGE_PMD_NR); + page_ref_add(new_page, HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1); set_page_dirty(new_page); mem_cgroup_commit_charge(new_page, memcg, false, true); lru_cache_add_anon(new_page); @@ -1541,8 +1538,6 @@ xa_unlocked: VM_BUG_ON(nr_none); xas_unlock_irq(&xas);

- /* Unfreeze new_page, caller would take care about freeing it */ - page_ref_unfreeze(new_page, 1); mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(new_page, memcg, true); new_page->mapping = NULL; } _