linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: avoid spurious 'bad pmd' warning messages

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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 16:40:57 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Pawel Lebioda <pawel.lebioda@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Xiong Zhou <xzhou@...hat.com>, Eryu Guan <eguan@...hat.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: avoid spurious 'bad pmd' warning messages

On Wed 17-05-17 11:16:38, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> When the pmd_devmap() checks were added by:
> 
> commit 5c7fb56e5e3f ("mm, dax: dax-pmd vs thp-pmd vs hugetlbfs-pmd")
> 
> to add better support for DAX huge pages, they were all added to the end of
> if() statements after existing pmd_trans_huge() checks.  So, things like:
> 
> -       if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))
> +       if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) || pmd_devmap(*pmd))
> 
> When further checks were added after pmd_trans_unstable() checks by:
> 
> commit 7267ec008b5c ("mm: postpone page table allocation until we have page
> to map")
> 
> they were also added at the end of the conditional:
> 
> +       if (pmd_trans_unstable(fe->pmd) || pmd_devmap(*fe->pmd))
> 
> This ordering is fine for pmd_trans_huge(), but doesn't work for
> pmd_trans_unstable().  This is because DAX huge pages trip the bad_pmd()
> check inside of pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() (called by
> pmd_trans_unstable()), which prints out a warning and returns 1.  So, we do
> end up doing the right thing, but only after spamming dmesg with suspicious
> looking messages:
> 
> mm/pgtable-generic.c:39: bad pmd ffff8808daa49b88(84000001006000a5)
> 
> Reorder these checks so that pmd_devmap() is checked first, avoiding the
> error messages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
> Fixes: commit 7267ec008b5c ("mm: postpone page table allocation until we have page to map")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

With the change requested by Dave this looks good to me. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  mm/memory.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 6ff5d72..1ee269d 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -3061,7 +3061,7 @@ static int pte_alloc_one_map(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  	 * through an atomic read in C, which is what pmd_trans_unstable()
>  	 * provides.
>  	 */
> -	if (pmd_trans_unstable(vmf->pmd) || pmd_devmap(*vmf->pmd))
> +	if (pmd_devmap(*vmf->pmd) || pmd_trans_unstable(vmf->pmd))
>  		return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
>  
>  	vmf->pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd, vmf->address,
> @@ -3690,7 +3690,7 @@ static int handle_pte_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  		vmf->pte = NULL;
>  	} else {
>  		/* See comment in pte_alloc_one_map() */
> -		if (pmd_trans_unstable(vmf->pmd) || pmd_devmap(*vmf->pmd))
> +		if (pmd_devmap(*vmf->pmd) || pmd_trans_unstable(vmf->pmd))
>  			return 0;
>  		/*
>  		 * A regular pmd is established and it can't morph into a huge
> -- 
> 2.9.4
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR