linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix migration races in rmap

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Date:	Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:05:30 +0200
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix migration races in rmap_walk() V2

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:40:43PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Ok the best idea so far I had is to add a fake temporary fake vma to
> the anon_vma list with the old vm_start and same vm_pgoff before
> shifting down vma->vm_start and calling move_page_tables. Then after
> the move is complete we remove the fake vma. So all the fast paths
> will remain unmodified and no magic is required. I'll try to fix this
> for the old stable anon-vma code and test in aa.git first as the code
> will differ. If it works ok anybody can port it to new anon-vma code.

here the new try for aa.git or 2.6.33 anon-vma code.

----
Subject: fix race between shift_arg_pages and rmap_walk

From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>

migrate.c requires rmap to be able to find all ptes mapping a page at
all times, otherwise the migration entry can be instantiated, but it
can't be removed if the second rmap_walk fails to find the page.

And split_huge_page() will have the same requirements as migrate.c
already has.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
 #include <linux/fsnotify.h>
 #include <linux/fs_struct.h>
 #include <linux/pipe_fs_i.h>
+#include <linux/rmap.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
@@ -502,7 +503,9 @@ static int shift_arg_pages(struct vm_are
 	unsigned long length = old_end - old_start;
 	unsigned long new_start = old_start - shift;
 	unsigned long new_end = old_end - shift;
+	unsigned long moved_length;
 	struct mmu_gather *tlb;
+	struct vm_area_struct *tmp_vma;
 
 	BUG_ON(new_start > new_end);
 
@@ -514,16 +517,36 @@ static int shift_arg_pages(struct vm_are
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	/*
+	 * We need to create a fake temporary vma and index it in the
+	 * anon_vma list in order to allow the pages to be reachable
+	 * at all times by the rmap walk for migrate, while
+	 * move_page_tables() is running.
+	 */
+	tmp_vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!tmp_vma)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	*tmp_vma = *vma;
+
+	spin_lock(&vma->anon_vma->lock);
+	/*
 	 * cover the whole range: [new_start, old_end)
 	 */
-	vma_adjust(vma, new_start, old_end, vma->vm_pgoff, NULL);
+	vma->vm_start = new_start;
+	__anon_vma_link(tmp_vma);
+	spin_unlock(&vma->anon_vma->lock);
 
 	/*
 	 * move the page tables downwards, on failure we rely on
 	 * process cleanup to remove whatever mess we made.
 	 */
-	if (length != move_page_tables(vma, old_start,
-				       vma, new_start, length))
+	moved_length = move_page_tables(vma, old_start,
+					vma, new_start, length);
+
+	/* rmap walk will already find all pages using the new_start */
+	anon_vma_unlink(tmp_vma);
+	kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, tmp_vma);
+
+	if (length != moved_length) 
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	lru_add_drain();
@@ -549,7 +572,7 @@ static int shift_arg_pages(struct vm_are
 	/*
 	 * shrink the vma to just the new range.
 	 */
-	vma_adjust(vma, new_start, new_end, vma->vm_pgoff, NULL);
+	vma->vm_end = new_end;
 
 	return 0;
 }
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