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Date:	Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:22:59 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>,
	stable@...nel.org, stefan.bader@...onical.com
Subject: Re: Is: [PATCH] x86/paravirt: PTE updates in k(un)map_atomic need to
 be synchronous, regardless of lazy_mmu mode. Was: Re: [PATCH] x86/paravirt:
 Partially revert "remove lazy mode in interrupts"


> >From 09966678dd645b68a422c9bf0223b13e73387302 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:02:29 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/paravirt: PTE updates in k(un)map_atomic need to be synchronous, regardless of lazy_mmu mode.
> 
> This patch fixes an outstanding issue that has been reported since 2.6.37.
> Under a heavy loaded machine processing "fork()" calls could keepover with:

Hm, looks like I forgot to include Andrew on this.

Andrew, what is your opinion on this tiny little critical patch?

> 
> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at f573fc8c
> IP: [<c01abc54>] swap_count_continued+0x104/0x180
> *pdpt = 000000002a3b9027 *pde = 0000000001bed067 *pte = 0000000000000000
> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> Modules linked in:
> Pid: 1638, comm: apache2 Not tainted 3.0.4-linode37 #1
> EIP: 0061:[<c01abc54>] EFLAGS: 00210246 CPU: 3
> EIP is at swap_count_continued+0x104/0x180
> .. snip..
> Call Trace:
>  [<c01ac222>] ? __swap_duplicate+0xc2/0x160
>  [<c01040f7>] ? pte_mfn_to_pfn+0x87/0xe0
>  [<c01ac2e4>] ? swap_duplicate+0x14/0x40
>  [<c01a0a6b>] ? copy_pte_range+0x45b/0x500
>  [<c01a0ca5>] ? copy_page_range+0x195/0x200
>  [<c01328c6>] ? dup_mmap+0x1c6/0x2c0
>  [<c0132cf8>] ? dup_mm+0xa8/0x130
>  [<c013376a>] ? copy_process+0x98a/0xb30
>  [<c013395f>] ? do_fork+0x4f/0x280
>  [<c01573b3>] ? getnstimeofday+0x43/0x100
>  [<c010f770>] ? sys_clone+0x30/0x40
>  [<c06c048d>] ? ptregs_clone+0x15/0x48
>  [<c06bfb71>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> 
> The problem is that in copy_page_range we turn lazy mode on, and then
> in swap_entry_free we call swap_count_continued which ends up in:
> 
>          map = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0) + offset;
> 
> and then later we touch *map.
> 
> Since we are running in batched mode (lazy) we don't actually set up the
> PTE mappings and the kmap_atomic is not done synchronously and ends up
> trying to dereference a page that has not been set.
> 
> Looking at kmap_atomic_prot_pfn, it uses 'arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode' and
> doing the same in kmap_atomic_prot and __kunmap_atomic makes the problem
> go away.
> 
> Interestingly, git commit b8bcfe997e46150fedcc3f5b26b846400122fdd9
> removed part of this to fix an interrupt issue - but it went to far
> and did not consider this scenario.
> 
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
> CC: x86@...nel.org
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
> CC: stable@...nel.org
> [v1: Redid the commit description per Jeremy's apt suggestion]
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c
> index b499626..f4f29b1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c
> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ void *kmap_atomic_prot(struct page *page, pgprot_t prot)
>  	vaddr = __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx);
>  	BUG_ON(!pte_none(*(kmap_pte-idx)));
>  	set_pte(kmap_pte-idx, mk_pte(page, prot));
> +	arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode();
>  
>  	return (void *)vaddr;
>  }
> @@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ void __kunmap_atomic(void *kvaddr)
>  		 */
>  		kpte_clear_flush(kmap_pte-idx, vaddr);
>  		kmap_atomic_idx_pop();
> +		arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode();
>  	}
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM
>  	else {
> -- 
> 1.7.4.1
> 
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