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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:47:27 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To: Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@...il.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
stable@...r.kernel.org,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ 29/48] mm: migration: add migrate_entry_wait_huge()
On Thu 20-06-13 18:52:43, Satoru Takeuchi wrote:
> Hi Naoya,
>
> At Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:17:55 -0700,
> Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> >
> > 3.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> >
> > commit 30dad30922ccc733cfdbfe232090cf674dc374dc upstream.
> >
> > When we have a page fault for the address which is backed by a hugepage
> > under migration, the kernel can't wait correctly and do busy looping on
> > hugepage fault until the migration finishes. As a result, users who try
> > to kick hugepage migration (via soft offlining, for example) occasionally
> > experience long delay or soft lockup.
> >
> > This is because pte_offset_map_lock() can't get a correct migration entry
> > or a correct page table lock for hugepage. This patch introduces
> > migration_entry_wait_huge() to solve this.
>
> I suspect that this code doesn't work correctly on i686 box with CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
> If we call hugetlb_fault() -> migration_entry_wait_huge() -> __migration_entry_wait(),
> this function tries to kunmap pte, in this case pte is not-kmapped pmd, via pte_unmap_unlock().
> If CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is also enabled, it results in BUG_ON() at __kunmap_atomic().
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
I haven't checked the code closer but the patch doesn't change anything
regarding pte_unmap_unlock. The only thing that it touches is the
_locking_. So whether there ever was a problem with kmap or not this
patch doesn't change it.
That being said, the patch is OK for the stable tree.
>
> Thanks,
> Satoru
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
> > Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> > Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
> > Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> >
> > ---
> > include/linux/swapops.h | 3 +++
> > mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
> > mm/migrate.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
> > 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > --- a/include/linux/swapops.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/swapops.h
> > @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ static inline void make_migration_entry_
> >
> > extern void migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
> > unsigned long address);
> > +extern void migration_entry_wait_huge(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *pte);
> > #else
> >
> > #define make_migration_entry(page, write) swp_entry(0, 0)
> > @@ -148,6 +149,8 @@ static inline int is_migration_entry(swp
> > static inline void make_migration_entry_read(swp_entry_t *entryp) { }
> > static inline void migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
> > unsigned long address) { }
> > +static inline void migration_entry_wait_huge(struct mm_struct *mm,
> > + pte_t *pte) { }
> > static inline int is_write_migration_entry(swp_entry_t entry)
> > {
> > return 0;
> > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > @@ -2823,7 +2823,7 @@ int hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm,
> > if (ptep) {
> > entry = huge_ptep_get(ptep);
> > if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_migration(entry))) {
> > - migration_entry_wait(mm, (pmd_t *)ptep, address);
> > + migration_entry_wait_huge(mm, ptep);
> > return 0;
> > } else if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(entry)))
> > return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE |
> > --- a/mm/migrate.c
> > +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> > @@ -200,15 +200,14 @@ static void remove_migration_ptes(struct
> > * get to the page and wait until migration is finished.
> > * When we return from this function the fault will be retried.
> > */
> > -void migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
> > - unsigned long address)
> > +static void __migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep,
> > + spinlock_t *ptl)
> > {
> > - pte_t *ptep, pte;
> > - spinlock_t *ptl;
> > + pte_t pte;
> > swp_entry_t entry;
> > struct page *page;
> >
> > - ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, &ptl);
> > + spin_lock(ptl);
> > pte = *ptep;
> > if (!is_swap_pte(pte))
> > goto out;
> > @@ -236,6 +235,20 @@ out:
> > pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
> > }
> >
> > +void migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
> > + unsigned long address)
> > +{
> > + spinlock_t *ptl = pte_lockptr(mm, pmd);
> > + pte_t *ptep = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
> > + __migration_entry_wait(mm, ptep, ptl);
> > +}
> > +
> > +void migration_entry_wait_huge(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *pte)
> > +{
> > + spinlock_t *ptl = &(mm)->page_table_lock;
> > + __migration_entry_wait(mm, pte, ptl);
> > +}
> > +
> > #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
> > /* Returns true if all buffers are successfully locked */
> > static bool buffer_migrate_lock_buffers(struct buffer_head *head,
> >
> >
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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