linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipc/shm.c add ->pagesize function to shm_vm

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Date:   Fri, 27 Jul 2018 14:50:09 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Jane Chu <jane.chu@...cle.com>
Cc:     dan.j.williams@...el.com, mhocko@...e.com, jack@...e.cz,
        jglisse@...hat.com, mike.kravetz@...cle.com, dave@...olabs.net,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc/shm.c add ->pagesize function to shm_vm_ops

On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:17:27 -0600 Jane Chu <jane.chu@...cle.com> wrote:

> Commit 05ea88608d4e13 (mm, hugetlbfs: introduce ->pagesize() to
> vm_operations_struct) adds a new ->pagesize() function to
> hugetlb_vm_ops, intended to cover all hugetlbfs backed files.

That was merged three months ago.  Can you suggest why this was only
noticed now?

What workload triggered this?  I see no cc:stable, but 4.17 is affected?

> With System V shared memory model, if "huge page" is specified,
> the "shared memory" is backed by hugetlbfs files, but the mappings
> initiated via shmget/shmat have their original vm_ops overwritten
> with shm_vm_ops, so we need to add a ->pagesize function to shm_vm_ops.
> Otherwise, vma_kernel_pagesize() returns PAGE_SIZE given a hugetlbfs
> backed vma, result in below BUG:
> 
> fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
>         443             if (unlikely(page_mapped(page))) {
>         444                     BUG_ON(truncate_op);

OK, help me out here.  How does an incorrect return value from
vma_kernel_pagesize() result in remove_inode_hugepages() deciding that
it's truncating a mapped page?