linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/khugepaged: Convert VM_BUG

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Date:   Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:23:53 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/khugepaged: Convert VM_BUG_ON() to collapse fail

khugepaged is not yet able to convert PTE-mapped huge pages back to PMD
mapped. We do not collapse such pages. See check khugepaged_scan_pmd().

But if between khugepaged_scan_pmd() and __collapse_huge_page_isolate()
somebody managed to instantiate THP in the range and then split the PMD
back to PTEs we would have a problem -- VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageCompound(page))
will get triggered.

It's possible since we drop mmap_sem during collapse to re-take for
write.

Replace the VM_BUG_ON() with graceful collapse fail.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Fixes: b1caa957ae6d ("khugepaged: ignore pmd tables with THP mapped with ptes")
---
 mm/khugepaged.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index b7e2268dfc9a..c15da1ea7e63 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -530,7 +530,12 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			goto out;
 		}

-		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageCompound(page), page);
+		/* TODO: teach khugepaged to collapse THP mapped with pte */
+		if (PageCompound(page)) {
+			result = SCAN_PAGE_COMPOUND;
+			goto out;
+		}
+
 		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageAnon(page), page);

 		/*
-- 
2.16.1