linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -alternative] mm: hugetlbfs: Close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables V2 (resend)

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Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:33:10 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>,
	Ken Chen <kenchen@...gle.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -alternative] mm: hugetlbfs: Close race during teardown
 of hugetlbfs shared page tables V2 (resend)

On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 02:36:58PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 02-08-12 08:37:57, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:19:34AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [...]
> > > On the other hand, mine is more coupled with the sharing code so it
> > > makes the code easier to follow and also makes the sharing more
> > > effective because racing processes see pmd populated when checking for
> > > shareable mappings.
> > > 
> > 
> > It could do with a small comment above huge_pmd_share() explaining that
> > calling pmd_alloc() under the i_mmap_mutex is necessary to prevent two
> > parallel faults missing a sharing opportunity with each other but it's
> > not mandatory.
> 
> Sure, that's a good idea. What about the following:
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> index 40b2500..51839d1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,13 @@ static int vma_shareable(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
>  }
>  
>  /*
> - * search for a shareable pmd page for hugetlb.
> + * search for a shareable pmd page for hugetlb. In any case calls
> + * pmd_alloc and returns the corresponding pte. While this not necessary
> + * for the !shared pmd case because we can allocate the pmd later as
> + * well it makes the code much cleaner. pmd allocation is essential for
> + * the shared case though because pud has to be populated inside the
> + * same i_mmap_mutex section otherwise racing tasks could either miss
> + * the sharing (see huge_pte_offset) or selected a bad pmd for sharing.
>   */
>  static pte_t*
>  huge_pmd_share(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pud_t *pud)
> 

Looks reasonable to me.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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