linux-kernel - Re: [ 29/48] mm: migration: add migrate_entry_wait

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Date:	Sat, 22 Jun 2013 21:28:49 +0900
From:	Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@...il.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ 29/48] mm: migration: add migrate_entry_wait_huge()

> > > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > > > 
> > > > 3.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > > 
> > > > ------------------
> > > > 
> > > > From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> > > > 
> > > > commit 30dad30922ccc733cfdbfe232090cf674dc374dc upstream.
> > > > 
> > > > When we have a page fault for the address which is backed by a hugepage
> > > > under migration, the kernel can't wait correctly and do busy looping on
> > > > hugepage fault until the migration finishes.  As a result, users who try
> > > > to kick hugepage migration (via soft offlining, for example) occasionally
> > > > experience long delay or soft lockup.
> > > > 
> > > > This is because pte_offset_map_lock() can't get a correct migration entry
> > > > or a correct page table lock for hugepage.  This patch introduces
> > > > migration_entry_wait_huge() to solve this.
> > > 
> > > I suspect that this code doesn't work correctly on i686 box with CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
> > > If we call hugetlb_fault() -> migration_entry_wait_huge() -> __migration_entry_wait(),
> > > this function tries to kunmap pte, in this case pte is not-kmapped pmd, via pte_unmap_unlock().
> > > If CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is also enabled, it results in BUG_ON() at __kunmap_atomic().
> > > 
> > > Correct me if I'm wrong.
> > 
> > I haven't checked the code closer but the patch doesn't change anything
> > regarding pte_unmap_unlock. The only thing that it touches is the
> > _locking_. So whether there ever was a problem with kmap or not this
> > patch doesn't change it.
> > 
> > That being said, the patch is OK for the stable tree.
> 
> OK, I see. This is a different problem from this patch. If I'll find a real problem
> with kmap, I'll report it as the different problem.

As the result of detailed code review and test, I confirmed there is no problem about
this code path. Sorry for the noise.

Thanks,
Satoru
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