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mm: numa: avoid waiting on freed migrated pages 

In do_huge_pmd_numa_page(), we attempt to handle a migrating thp pmd by
waiting until the pmd is unlocked before we return and retry.  However,
we can race with migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page():

    // do_huge_pmd_numa_page                // migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page()
    // Holds 0 refs on page                 // Holds 2 refs on page

    vmf->ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd);
    /* ... */
    if (pmd_trans_migrating(*vmf->pmd)) {
            page = pmd_page(*vmf->pmd);
            spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
                                            ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pmd);
                                            if (page_count(page) != 2)) {
                                                    /* roll back */
                                            }
                                            /* ... */
                                            mlock_migrate_page(new_page, page);
                                            /* ... */
                                            spin_unlock(ptl);
                                            put_page(page);
                                            put_page(page); // page freed here
            wait_on_page_locked(page);
            goto out;
    }

This can result in the freed page having its waiters flag set
unexpectedly, which trips the PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP checks in the
page alloc/free functions.  This has been observed on arm64 KVM guests.

We can avoid this by having do_huge_pmd_numa_page() take a reference on
the page before dropping the pmd lock, mirroring what we do in
__migration_entry_wait().

When we hit the race, migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page() will see the
reference and abort the migration, as it may do today in other cases.

Fixes: b8916634b7 ("mm: Prevent parallel splits during THP migration")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497349722-6731-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mark Rutland 2017-06-16 14:02:34 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ef70762948
commit 3c226c637b
1 changed files with 7 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -1426,8 +1426,11 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct vm_fault *vmf, pmd_t pmd)
*/
if (unlikely(pmd_trans_migrating(*vmf->pmd))) {
page = pmd_page(*vmf->pmd);
if (!get_page_unless_zero(page))
goto out_unlock;
spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
wait_on_page_locked(page);
put_page(page);
goto out;
}
@ -1459,9 +1462,12 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct vm_fault *vmf, pmd_t pmd)
/* Migration could have started since the pmd_trans_migrating check */
if (!page_locked) {
page_nid = -1;
if (!get_page_unless_zero(page))
goto out_unlock;
spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
wait_on_page_locked(page);
page_nid = -1;
put_page(page);
goto out;
}