linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm][BUGFIX] migration_entry

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:29:44 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@...com>,
	Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org,
	"hugh@...itas.com" <hugh@...itas.com>
Subject: [PATCH -mm][BUGFIX] migration_entry_wait fix. v2

In speculative page cache look up protocol, page_count(page) is set to 0
while radix-tree modification is going on, truncation, migration, etc...

While page migration, a page fault to page under migration does
 - look up page table
 - find it is migration_entry_pte
 - decode pfn from migration_entry_pte and get page of pfn_page(pfn)
 - wait until page is unlocked 

It does get_page() -> wait_on_page_locked() -> put_page() now.

In page migration's radix-tree replacement, page_freeze_refs() ->
page_unfreeze_refs() is called. And page_count(page) turns to be zero
and must be kept to be zero while radix-tree replacement.

If get_page() is called against a page under radix-tree replacement,
the kernel panics(). To avoid this, we shouldn't increment page_count()
if it is zero. This patch uses get_page_unless_zero().

Even if get_page_unless_zero() fails, the caller just retries.
But will be a bit busier.

Change log v1->v2:
 - rewrote the patch description and added comments.

From: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
---
 mm/migrate.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: test-2.6.26-rc5-mm3/mm/migrate.c
===================================================================
--- test-2.6.26-rc5-mm3.orig/mm/migrate.c
+++ test-2.6.26-rc5-mm3/mm/migrate.c
@@ -242,8 +242,15 @@ void migration_entry_wait(struct mm_stru
 		goto out;
 
 	page = migration_entry_to_page(entry);
-
-	get_page(page);
+	/*
+	 * Once radix-tree replacement of page migration started, page_count
+	 * *must* be zero. And, we don't want to call wait_on_page_locked()
+	 * against a page without get_page().
+	 * So, we use get_page_unless_zero(), here. Even failed, page fault
+	 * will occur again.
+	 */
+	if (!get_page_unless_zero(page))
+		goto out;
 	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
 	wait_on_page_locked(page);
 	put_page(page);

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