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Date:	Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:27:42 +0100
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, bpicco@...hat.com,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: [PATCH 07 of 66] update futex compound knowledge

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

Futex code is smarter than most other gup_fast O_DIRECT code and knows about
the compound internals. However now doing a put_page(head_page) will not
release the pin on the tail page taken by gup-fast, leading to all sort of
refcounting bugchecks. Getting a stable head_page is a little tricky.

page_head = page is there because if this is not a tail page it's also the
page_head. Only in case this is a tail page, compound_head is called, otherwise
it's guaranteed unnecessary. And if it's a tail page compound_head has to run
atomically inside irq disabled section __get_user_pages_fast before returning.
Otherwise ->first_page won't be a stable pointer.

Disableing irq before __get_user_page_fast and releasing irq after running
compound_head is needed because if __get_user_page_fast returns == 1, it means
the huge pmd is established and cannot go away from under us.
pmdp_splitting_flush_notify in __split_huge_page_splitting will have to wait
for local_irq_enable before the IPI delivery can return. This means
__split_huge_page_refcount can't be running from under us, and in turn when we
run compound_head(page) we're not reading a dangling pointer from
tailpage->first_page. Then after we get to stable head page, we are always safe
to call compound_lock and after taking the compound lock on head page we can
finally re-check if the page returned by gup-fast is still a tail page. in
which case we're set and we didn't need to split the hugepage in order to take
a futex on it.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
---

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ get_futex_key(u32 __user *uaddr, int fsh
 {
 	unsigned long address = (unsigned long)uaddr;
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
-	struct page *page;
+	struct page *page, *page_head;
 	int err;
 
 	/*
@@ -251,11 +251,46 @@ again:
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
 
-	page = compound_head(page);
-	lock_page(page);
-	if (!page->mapping) {
-		unlock_page(page);
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+	page_head = page;
+	if (unlikely(PageTail(page))) {
 		put_page(page);
+		/* serialize against __split_huge_page_splitting() */
+		local_irq_disable();
+		if (likely(__get_user_pages_fast(address, 1, 1, &page) == 1)) {
+			page_head = compound_head(page);
+			/*
+			 * page_head is valid pointer but we must pin
+			 * it before taking the PG_lock and/or
+			 * PG_compound_lock. The moment we re-enable
+			 * irqs __split_huge_page_splitting() can
+			 * return and the head page can be freed from
+			 * under us. We can't take the PG_lock and/or
+			 * PG_compound_lock on a page that could be
+			 * freed from under us.
+			 */
+			if (page != page_head) {
+				get_page(page_head);
+				put_page(page);
+			}
+			local_irq_enable();
+		} else {
+			local_irq_enable();
+			goto again;
+		}
+	}
+#else
+	page_head = compound_head(page);
+	if (page != page_head) {
+		get_page(page_head);
+		put_page(page);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	lock_page(page_head);
+	if (!page_head->mapping) {
+		unlock_page(page_head);
+		put_page(page_head);
 		goto again;
 	}
 
@@ -266,20 +301,20 @@ again:
 	 * it's a read-only handle, it's expected that futexes attach to
 	 * the object not the particular process.
 	 */
-	if (PageAnon(page)) {
+	if (PageAnon(page_head)) {
 		key->both.offset |= FUT_OFF_MMSHARED; /* ref taken on mm */
 		key->private.mm = mm;
 		key->private.address = address;
 	} else {
 		key->both.offset |= FUT_OFF_INODE; /* inode-based key */
-		key->shared.inode = page->mapping->host;
-		key->shared.pgoff = page->index;
+		key->shared.inode = page_head->mapping->host;
+		key->shared.pgoff = page_head->index;
 	}
 
 	get_futex_key_refs(key);
 
-	unlock_page(page);
-	put_page(page);
+	unlock_page(page_head);
+	put_page(page_head);
 	return 0;
 }
 
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