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Message-ID: <1360205438.13550.11.camel@ThinkPad-T5421.cn.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:50:38 +0800
From: Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: accelerate munlock() treatment of THP pages
On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 18:44 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 02/04/2013 02:17 AM, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> > munlock_vma_pages_range() was always incrementing addresses by PAGE_SIZE
> > at a time. When munlocking THP pages (or the huge zero page), this resulted
> > in taking the mm->page_table_lock 512 times in a row.
> >
> > We can do better by making use of the page_mask returned by follow_page_mask
> > (for the huge zero page case), or the size of the page munlock_vma_page()
> > operated on (for the true THP page case).
> >
> > Note - I am sending this as RFC only for now as I can't currently put
> > my finger on what if anything prevents split_huge_page() from operating
> > concurrently on the same page as munlock_vma_page(), which would mess
> > up our NR_MLOCK statistics. Is this a latent bug or is there a subtle
> > point I missed here ?
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
>
> Hi Michel,
>
> Fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest produces a steady stream of:
>
>
> [ 51.823275] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 51.823302] kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:421!
> [ 51.823307] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> [ 51.823307] Dumping ftrace buffer:
> [ 51.823314] (ftrace buffer empty)
> [ 51.823314] Modules linked in:
> [ 51.823314] CPU 2
> [ 51.823314] Pid: 7116, comm: trinity Tainted: G W 3.8.0-rc6-next-20130206-sasha-00027-g3b5963c-dirty #273
> [ 51.823316] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81242792>] [<ffffffff81242792>] munlock_vma_page+0x12/0xf0
> [ 51.823317] RSP: 0018:ffff880009641bb8 EFLAGS: 00010282
> [ 51.823319] RAX: 011ffc0000008001 RBX: ffffea0000410040 RCX: 0000000000000000
> [ 51.823320] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffea0000410040
> [ 51.823321] RBP: ffff880009641bc8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> [ 51.823322] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880009633958
> [ 51.823324] R13: 0000000001252000 R14: ffffea0000410040 R15: 00000000000000ff
> [ 51.823326] FS: 00007fe7a9046700(0000) GS:ffff88000ba00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 51.823327] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [ 51.823328] CR2: 00007fc583b90fcb CR3: 0000000009bc8000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
> [ 51.823334] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> [ 51.823338] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> [ 51.823340] Process trinity (pid: 7116, threadinfo ffff880009640000, task ffff880009638000)
> [ 51.823341] Stack:
> [ 51.823344] 0000000000a01000 ffff880009633958 ffff880009641c08 ffffffff812429bd
> [ 51.823373] ffff880009638000 000001ff09638000 ffff880009ade000 ffff880009633958
> [ 51.823373] ffff880009638810 ffff880009ade098 ffff880009641cb8 ffffffff81246d81
> [ 51.823373] Call Trace:
> [ 51.823373] [<ffffffff812429bd>] munlock_vma_pages_range+0x8d/0xf0
> [ 51.823373] [<ffffffff81246d81>] exit_mmap+0x51/0x170
> [ 51.823373] [<ffffffff81278b4a>] ? __khugepaged_exit+0x8a/0xf0
> [ 51.823373] [<ffffffff8126a09f>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x22f/0x3b0
> [ 51.823373] [<ffffffff81278b4a>] ? __khugepaged_exit+0x8a/0xf0
> [ 51.823373] [<ffffffff8110af97>] mmput+0x77/0xe0
> [ 51.823377] [<ffffffff81114403>] exit_mm+0x113/0x120
> [ 51.823381] [<ffffffff83d727f1>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x51/0x80
> [ 51.823384] [<ffffffff8111465a>] do_exit+0x24a/0x590
> [ 51.823387] [<ffffffff81114a6a>] do_group_exit+0x8a/0xc0
> [ 51.823390] [<ffffffff81128591>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x501/0x5b0
> [ 51.823394] [<ffffffff8106dd42>] do_signal+0x42/0x110
> [ 51.823399] [<ffffffff811d8ea4>] ? rcu_eqs_exit_common+0x64/0x340
> [ 51.823404] [<ffffffff81184a0d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
> [ 51.823407] [<ffffffff811849c8>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x128/0x160
> [ 51.823409] [<ffffffff81184a0d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
> [ 51.823412] [<ffffffff8106de58>] do_notify_resume+0x48/0xa0
> [ 51.823415] [<ffffffff83d732fb>] retint_signal+0x4d/0x92
> [ 51.823449] Code: 85 c0 75 0d 48 89 df e8 0d 30 fe ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 c4 08 5b 5d c3 90 55 48 89 e5 41 54 53 48 89 fb 48
> 8b 07 f6 c4 80 74 06 <0f> 0b 0f 1f 40 00 48 8b 07 48 c1 e8 0e 83 e0 01 83 f8 01 48 8b
> [ 51.823449] RIP [<ffffffff81242792>] munlock_vma_page+0x12/0xf0
> [ 51.823450] RSP <ffff880009641bb8>
> [ 51.826846] ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a72a ]---
>
The similar warning prevents my system from booting. And it seems to me
that in munlock_vma_pages_range(), the page_mask needs be the page
number returned from munlock_vma_page() minus 1. And the following fix
solved my problem. Would you please have a try?
Thanks, Zhong
================
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index af1d115..1e3d794 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ void munlock_vma_pages_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unlock_page(page);
put_page(page);
}
- page_increm = 1 + (~(start >> PAGE_SHIFT) & page_mask);
+ page_increm = 1 + (~(start >> PAGE_SHIFT) & (page_mask-1));
start += page_increm * PAGE_SIZE;
cond_resched();
}
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