linux-kernel - Re: mm: fix BUG in __split_huge_page

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Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:48:27 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: mm: fix BUG in __split_huge_page_pmd

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hi Hugh,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 04:08:28AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > Occasionally we hit the BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) at the end of
> > __split_huge_page_pmd(): seen when doing madvise(,,MADV_DONTNEED).
> > 
> > It's invalid: we don't always have down_write of mmap_sem there:
> > a racing do_huge_pmd_wp_page() might have copied-on-write to another
> > huge page before our split_huge_page() got the anon_vma lock.
> > 
> 
> I don't get exactly the scenario with do_huge_pmd_wp_page(), could you
> elaborate?

I think the scenario is follow:

	CPU0:					CPU1

__split_huge_page_pmd()
	page = pmd_page(*pmd);
					do_huge_pmd_wp_page() copy the
					page and changes pmd (the same as on CPU0)
					to point to newly copied page.
	split_huge_page(page)
	where page is original page,
	not allocated on COW.
	pmd still points on huge page.


Hugh, have I got it correctly?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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