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Message-ID: <5252BD63.6060606@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:55:47 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/63] mm: Wait for THP migrations to complete during
 NUMA hinting faults

On 10/07/2013 06:28 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The locking for migrating THP is unusual. While normal page migration
> prevents parallel accesses using a migration PTE, THP migration relies on
> a combination of the page_table_lock, the page lock and the existance of
> the NUMA hinting PTE to guarantee safety but there is a bug in the scheme.
> 
> If a THP page is currently being migrated and another thread traps a
> fault on the same page it checks if the page is misplaced. If it is not,
> then pmd_numa is cleared. The problem is that it checks if the page is
> misplaced without holding the page lock meaning that the racing thread
> can be migrating the THP when the second thread clears the NUMA bit
> and faults a stale page.
> 
> This patch checks if the page is potentially being migrated and stalls
> using the lock_page if it is potentially being migrated before checking
> if the page is misplaced or not.
> 
> Cc: stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>


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