linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/pagewalk.c: walk_page_range should avoid VM

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Message-Id: <E1UXWpF-0006Ya-Br@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 01 May 2013 08:12:01 -0500
From:	Cliff Wickman <cpw@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mgorman@...e.de, aarcange@...hat.com,
	dave.hansen@...el.com, dsterba@...e.cz, hannes@...xchg.org,
	kosaki.motohiro@...il.com, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
	mpm@...enic.com, n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com, rdunlap@...radead.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm/pagewalk.c: walk_page_range should avoid VM_PFNMAP areas


This patch replaces "[PATCH] fs/proc: smaps should avoid VM_PFNMAP areas".
/proc/<pid>/smaps and similar walks through a user page table should not
be looking at VM_PFNMAP areas.

Certain tests in walk_page_range() (specifically split_huge_page_pmd())
assume that all the mapped PFN's are backed with page structures. And this is
not usually true for VM_PFNMAP areas. This can result in panics on kernel
page faults when attempting to address those page structures.

There are a half dozen callers of walk_page_range() that walk through
a task's entire page table (as N. Horiguchi pointed out). So rather than
change all of them, this patch changes just walk_page_range() to ignore 
VM_PFNMAP areas.

The logic of hugetlb_vma() is moved back into walk_page_range(), as we
want to test any vma in the range.

VM_PFNMAP areas are used by:
- graphics memory manager   gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
- global reference unit     sgi-gru/grufile.c
- sgi special memory        char/mspec.c
- and probably several out-of-tree modules

I'm copying everyone who has changed this file recently, in case
there is some reason that I am not aware of to provide
/proc/<pid>/smaps|clear_refs|maps|numa_maps for these VM_PFNMAP areas.

Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@....com>
---
 mm/pagewalk.c |   60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

Index: linux/mm/pagewalk.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ linux/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -127,22 +127,6 @@ static int walk_hugetlb_range(struct vm_
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static struct vm_area_struct* hugetlb_vma(unsigned long addr, struct mm_walk *walk)
-{
-	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
-
-	/* We don't need vma lookup at all. */
-	if (!walk->hugetlb_entry)
-		return NULL;
-
-	VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&walk->mm->mmap_sem));
-	vma = find_vma(walk->mm, addr);
-	if (vma && vma->vm_start <= addr && is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
-		return vma;
-
-	return NULL;
-}
-
 #else /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
 static struct vm_area_struct* hugetlb_vma(unsigned long addr, struct mm_walk *walk)
 {
@@ -200,28 +184,46 @@ int walk_page_range(unsigned long addr,
 
 	pgd = pgd_offset(walk->mm, addr);
 	do {
-		struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+		struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL;
 
 		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
 
 		/*
-		 * handle hugetlb vma individually because pagetable walk for
-		 * the hugetlb page is dependent on the architecture and
-		 * we can't handled it in the same manner as non-huge pages.
+		 * Check any special vma's within this range.
 		 */
-		vma = hugetlb_vma(addr, walk);
+		VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&walk->mm->mmap_sem));
+		vma = find_vma(walk->mm, addr);
 		if (vma) {
-			if (vma->vm_end < next)
+			/*
+			 * There are no page structures backing a VM_PFNMAP
+			 * range, so allow no split_huge_page_pmd().
+			 */
+			if (vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP) {
 				next = vma->vm_end;
+				pgd = pgd_offset(walk->mm, next);
+				continue;
+			}
 			/*
-			 * Hugepage is very tightly coupled with vma, so
-			 * walk through hugetlb entries within a given vma.
+			 * Handle hugetlb vma individually because pagetable
+			 * walk for the hugetlb page is dependent on the
+			 * architecture and we can't handled it in the same
+			 * manner as non-huge pages.
 			 */
-			err = walk_hugetlb_range(vma, addr, next, walk);
-			if (err)
-				break;
-			pgd = pgd_offset(walk->mm, next);
-			continue;
+			if (walk->hugetlb_entry && (vma->vm_start <= addr) &&
+			    is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
+				if (vma->vm_end < next)
+					next = vma->vm_end;
+				/*
+				 * Hugepage is very tightly coupled with vma,
+				 * so walk through hugetlb entries within a
+				 * given vma.
+				 */
+				err = walk_hugetlb_range(vma, addr, next, walk);
+				if (err)
+					break;
+				pgd = pgd_offset(walk->mm, next);
+				continue;
+			}
 		}
 
 		if (pgd_none_or_clear_bad(pgd)) {
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