linux-kernel - [PATCH v4] mm,thp: recheck each page before collapsing file THP

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Date:   Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:10:06 -0700
From:   Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
To:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     <matthew.wilcox@...cle.com>, <kernel-team@...com>,
        <william.kucharski@...cle.com>, <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4] mm,thp: recheck each page before collapsing file THP

In collapse_file(), for !is_shmem case, current check cannot guarantee
the locked page is up-to-date. Specifically, xas_unlock_irq() should not
be called before lock_page() and get_page(); and it is necessary to
recheck PageUptodate() after locking the page.

With this bug and CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS=y, madvise(HUGE)'ed .text
may contain corrupted data. This is because khugepaged mistakenly
collapses some not up-to-date sub pages into a huge page, and assumes the
huge page is up-to-date. This will NOT corrupt data in the disk, because
the page is read-only and never written back. Fix this by properly
checking PageUptodate() after locking the page. This check replaces
"VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageUptodate(page), page);".

Also, move PageDirty() check after locking the page. Current khugepaged
only collapse read-only .text. Therefore, the page could only be dirty
if it hasn't been flushed since first write. In such case, calls
filemap_flush() and defer the collapse.

Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@...cle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>

---
Changes v1 => v2:
Rearrange the checks per feedback from Johannes, Rik, and Kirill.

Changes v2 => v3:
Remove redudant checks before trylock_page().

Changes v3 => v4:
Rewrite commit log.
Trigger filemap_flush() for PageDirty() case. This covers one-off
situation, where the file hasn't been flushed since first write.
---
 mm/khugepaged.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 0a1b4b484ac5..cd480dce92c6 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1601,17 +1601,6 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
 					result = SCAN_FAIL;
 					goto xa_unlocked;
 				}
-			} else if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
-				xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
-				wait_on_page_locked(page);
-				if (!trylock_page(page)) {
-					result = SCAN_PAGE_LOCK;
-					goto xa_unlocked;
-				}
-				get_page(page);
-			} else if (PageDirty(page)) {
-				result = SCAN_FAIL;
-				goto xa_locked;
 			} else if (trylock_page(page)) {
 				get_page(page);
 				xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
@@ -1626,7 +1615,12 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		 * without racing with truncate.
 		 */
 		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
-		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageUptodate(page), page);
+
+		/* double check the page is up to date */
+		if (unlikely(!PageUptodate(page))) {
+			result = SCAN_FAIL;
+			goto out_unlock;
+		}

 		/*
 		 * If file was truncated then extended, or hole-punched, before
@@ -1642,6 +1636,24 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
 			goto out_unlock;
 		}

+		if (!is_shmem && PageDirty(page)) {
+			/*
+			 * khugepaged only works on read-only fd, so this
+			 * page is dirty because it hasn't been flushed
+			 * since first write. There won't be new dirty
+			 * pages.
+			 *
+			 * Trigger async flush here and hope the writeback
+			 * is done when khugepaged revisits this page.
+			 *
+			 * This is a one-off situation. We are not forcing
+			 * writeback in loop.
+			 */
+			filemap_flush(mapping);
+			result = SCAN_FAIL;
+			goto out_unlock;
+		}
+
 		if (isolate_lru_page(page)) {
 			result = SCAN_DEL_PAGE_LRU;
 			goto out_unlock;
-- 
2.17.1