linux-kernel - [PATCH v3] mm: pmd dirty emulation in page fault handler

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Date:   Fri, 23 Dec 2016 16:53:07 +0900
From:   Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, Jason Evans <je@...com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        "[4.5+]" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3] mm: pmd dirty emulation in page fault handler

Andreas reported [1] made a test in jemalloc hang in THP mode in arm64.
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/mvmmvfy37g1.fsf@hawking.suse.de

The problem is page fault handler supports only accessed flag emulation
for THP page of SW-dirty/accessed architecture.

This patch enables dirty-bit emulation for those architectures.
Without it, MADV_FREE makes application hang by repeated fault forever.

[1] b8d3c4c3009d, mm/huge_memory.c: don't split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called

Cc: Jason Evans <je@...com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> [4.5+]
Fixes: b8d3c4c3009d ("mm/huge_memory.c: don't split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called")
Reported-and-Tested-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
---
* from v2
  * Add acked-by/tested-by

* from v1
  * Remove __handle_mm_fault part - Kirill

 mm/huge_memory.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 10eedbf..29ec8a4 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -883,15 +883,17 @@ void huge_pmd_set_accessed(struct vm_fault *vmf, pmd_t orig_pmd)
 {
 	pmd_t entry;
 	unsigned long haddr;
+	bool write = vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
 
 	vmf->ptl = pmd_lock(vmf->vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd);
 	if (unlikely(!pmd_same(*vmf->pmd, orig_pmd)))
 		goto unlock;
 
 	entry = pmd_mkyoung(orig_pmd);
+	if (write)
+		entry = pmd_mkdirty(entry);
 	haddr = vmf->address & HPAGE_PMD_MASK;
-	if (pmdp_set_access_flags(vmf->vma, haddr, vmf->pmd, entry,
-				vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE))
+	if (pmdp_set_access_flags(vmf->vma, haddr, vmf->pmd, entry, write))
 		update_mmu_cache_pmd(vmf->vma, vmf->address, vmf->pmd);
 
 unlock:
-- 
2.7.4