linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 04/27] mm: fix swapoff hang after page migration and fork

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Message-ID: <lsq.1419815491.457703049@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:11:31 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Hugh Dickins" <hughd@...gle.com>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Kelley Nielsen" <kelleynnn@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 04/27] mm: fix swapoff hang after page migration and fork

3.2.66-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>

commit 2022b4d18a491a578218ce7a4eca8666db895a73 upstream.

I've been seeing swapoff hangs in recent testing: it's cycling around
trying unsuccessfully to find an mm for some remaining pages of swap.

I have been exercising swap and page migration more heavily recently,
and now notice a long-standing error in copy_one_pte(): it's trying to
add dst_mm to swapoff's mmlist when it finds a swap entry, but is doing
so even when it's a migration entry or an hwpoison entry.

Which wouldn't matter much, except it adds dst_mm next to src_mm,
assuming src_mm is already on the mmlist: which may not be so.  Then if
pages are later swapped out from dst_mm, swapoff won't be able to find
where to replace them.

There's already a !non_swap_entry() test for stats: move that up before
the swap_duplicate() and the addition to mmlist.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: Kelley Nielsen <kelleynnn@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 mm/memory.c | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -870,20 +870,20 @@ copy_one_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, s
 		if (!pte_file(pte)) {
 			swp_entry_t entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte);
 
-			if (swap_duplicate(entry) < 0)
-				return entry.val;
+			if (likely(!non_swap_entry(entry))) {
+				if (swap_duplicate(entry) < 0)
+					return entry.val;
 
-			/* make sure dst_mm is on swapoff's mmlist. */
-			if (unlikely(list_empty(&dst_mm->mmlist))) {
-				spin_lock(&mmlist_lock);
-				if (list_empty(&dst_mm->mmlist))
-					list_add(&dst_mm->mmlist,
-						 &src_mm->mmlist);
-				spin_unlock(&mmlist_lock);
-			}
-			if (likely(!non_swap_entry(entry)))
+				/* make sure dst_mm is on swapoff's mmlist. */
+				if (unlikely(list_empty(&dst_mm->mmlist))) {
+					spin_lock(&mmlist_lock);
+					if (list_empty(&dst_mm->mmlist))
+						list_add(&dst_mm->mmlist,
+							 &src_mm->mmlist);
+					spin_unlock(&mmlist_lock);
+				}
 				rss[MM_SWAPENTS]++;
-			else if (is_write_migration_entry(entry) &&
+			} else if (is_write_migration_entry(entry) &&
 					is_cow_mapping(vm_flags)) {
 				/*
 				 * COW mappings require pages in both parent

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