linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mm: thp: fix flags for pmd migration when split

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Date:   Thu, 13 Dec 2018 10:55:21 +0300
From:   Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>
To:     peterx@...hat.com
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, dave.jiang@...el.com,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>,
        Константин Хлебников 
        <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>, zi.yan@...rutgers.edu,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: thp: fix flags for pmd migration when split

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 8:15 AM Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> When splitting a huge migrating PMD, we'll transfer all the existing
> PMD bits and apply them again onto the small PTEs.  However we are
> fetching the bits unconditionally via pmd_soft_dirty(), pmd_write()
> or pmd_yound() while actually they don't make sense at all when it's
> a migration entry.  Fix them up.  Since at it, drop the ifdef together
> as not needed.
>
> Note that if my understanding is correct about the problem then if
> without the patch there is chance to lose some of the dirty bits in
> the migrating pmd pages (on x86_64 we're fetching bit 11 which is part
> of swap offset instead of bit 2) and it could potentially corrupt the
> memory of an userspace program which depends on the dirty bit.
>

Looks good to me

Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>

> CC: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> CC: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> CC: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
> CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> CC: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
> CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> CC: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>
> CC: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
> CC: Zi Yan <zi.yan@...rutgers.edu>
> CC: linux-mm@...ck.org
> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - fix it up for young/write/dirty bits too [Konstantin]
> v3:
> - fetch write correctly for migration entry; drop macro [Konstantin]
> ---
>  mm/huge_memory.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index f2d19e4fe854..aebade83cec9 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -2145,23 +2145,25 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
>          */
>         old_pmd = pmdp_invalidate(vma, haddr, pmd);
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
>         pmd_migration = is_pmd_migration_entry(old_pmd);
> -       if (pmd_migration) {
> +       if (unlikely(pmd_migration)) {
>                 swp_entry_t entry;
>
>                 entry = pmd_to_swp_entry(old_pmd);
>                 page = pfn_to_page(swp_offset(entry));
> -       } else
> -#endif
> +               write = is_write_migration_entry(entry);
> +               young = false;
> +               soft_dirty = pmd_swp_soft_dirty(old_pmd);
> +       } else {
>                 page = pmd_page(old_pmd);
> +               if (pmd_dirty(old_pmd))
> +                       SetPageDirty(page);
> +               write = pmd_write(old_pmd);
> +               young = pmd_young(old_pmd);
> +               soft_dirty = pmd_soft_dirty(old_pmd);
> +       }
>         VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(page), page);
>         page_ref_add(page, HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1);
> -       if (pmd_dirty(old_pmd))
> -               SetPageDirty(page);
> -       write = pmd_write(old_pmd);
> -       young = pmd_young(old_pmd);
> -       soft_dirty = pmd_soft_dirty(old_pmd);
>
>         /*
>          * Withdraw the table only after we mark the pmd entry invalid.
> --
> 2.17.1
>