linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3] powerpc/thp: Serialize pmd clear against a linux page table walk.

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Date:	Mon, 11 May 2015 14:24:14 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org, mpe@...erman.id.au,
	kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, aarcange@...hat.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] powerpc/thp: Serialize pmd clear against a linux page table walk.

"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name> writes:

> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:56:01AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> Serialize against find_linux_pte_or_hugepte which does lock-less
>> lookup in page tables with local interrupts disabled. For huge pages
>> it casts pmd_t to pte_t. Since format of pte_t is different from
>> pmd_t we want to prevent transit from pmd pointing to page table
>> to pmd pointing to huge page (and back) while interrupts are disabled.
>> We clear pmd to possibly replace it with page table pointer in
>> different code paths. So make sure we wait for the parallel
>> find_linux_pte_or_hugepage to finish.
>> 
>> Without this patch, a find_linux_pte_or_hugepte running in parallel to
>> __split_huge_zero_page_pmd or do_huge_pmd_wp_page_fallback or zap_huge_pmd
>> can run into the above issue. With __split_huge_zero_page_pmd and
>> do_huge_pmd_wp_page_fallback we clear the hugepage pte before inserting
>> the pmd entry with a regular pgtable address. Such a clear need to
>> wait for the parallel find_linux_pte_or_hugepte to finish.
>> 
>> With zap_huge_pmd, we can run into issues, with a hugepage pte
>> getting zapped due to a MADV_DONTNEED while other cpu fault it
>> in as small pages.
>> 
>> Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
>
> CC: stable@ ?

Yes, We also need to pick,


dac5657067919161eb3273ca787d8ae9814801e7
691e95fd7396905a38d98919e9c150dbc3ea21a3
7d6e7f7ffaba4e013c7a0589140431799bc17985


But that may need me to a backport, because we have dependencies in kvm
and a cherry-pick may not work.

Will work with Michael Ellerman to find out what needs to be done.

-aneesh

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