linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm/rmap: map_pte() was not handling private ZONE

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Date:   Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:05:38 +1000
From:   Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
To:     jglisse@...hat.com
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm/rmap: map_pte() was not handling private
 ZONE_DEVICE page properly

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 03:25:44PM -0400, jglisse@...hat.com wrote:
> From: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
> 
> Private ZONE_DEVICE pages use a special pte entry and thus are not
> present. Properly handle this case in map_pte(), it is already handled
> in check_pte(), the map_pte() part was lost in some rebase most probably.
> 
> Without this patch the slow migration path can not migrate back private
> ZONE_DEVICE memory to regular memory. This was found after stress
> testing migration back to system memory. This ultimatly can lead the
> CPU to an infinite page fault loop on the special swap entry.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  mm/page_vma_mapped.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c b/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
> index ae3c2a35d61b..1cf5b9bfb559 100644
> --- a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
> +++ b/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
> @@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ static bool map_pte(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
>  			if (!is_swap_pte(*pvmw->pte))
>  				return false;
>  		} else {
> +			if (is_swap_pte(*pvmw->pte)) {
> +				swp_entry_t entry;
> +
> +				/* Handle un-addressable ZONE_DEVICE memory */
> +				entry = pte_to_swp_entry(*pvmw->pte);
> +				if (is_device_private_entry(entry))
> +					return true;
> +			}
> +

This happens just for !PVMW_SYNC && PVMW_MIGRATION? I presume this
is triggered via the remove_migration_pte() code path? Doesn't
returning true here imply that we've taken the ptl lock for the
pvmw?

Balbir