linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] mm, thp: lock filemap when truncating page cache

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Date:   Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:55:05 +0800
From:   Rongwei Wang <rongwei.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     willy@...radead.org, hughd@...gle.com, song@...nel.org,
        shy828301@...il.com
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, william.kucharski@...cle.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] mm, thp: lock filemap when truncating page cache

Hello

I see this patch has not been replied by all. I'm not sure whether this 
patch has passed review or the status needs to be modified.

Thanks!

On 10/11/21 10:22 AM, Rongwei Wang wrote:
> Transparent huge page has supported read-only non-shmem files. The file-
> backed THP is collapsed by khugepaged and truncated when written (for
> shared libraries).
> 
> However, there is a race when multiple writers truncate the same page
> cache concurrently.
> 
> In that case, subpage(s) of file THP can be revealed by find_get_entry
> in truncate_inode_pages_range, which will trigger PageTail BUG_ON in
> truncate_inode_page, as follows.
> 
> page:000000009e420ff2 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x7ff pfn:0x50c3ff
> head:0000000075ff816d order:9 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
> flags: 0x37fffe0000010815(locked|uptodate|lru|arch_1|head)
> raw: 37fffe0000000000 fffffe0013108001 dead000000000122 dead000000000400
> raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
> head: 37fffe0000010815 fffffe001066bd48 ffff000404183c20 0000000000000000
> head: 0000000000000600 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff ffff000c0345a000
> page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail(page))
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:213!
> Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
> Modules linked in: xfs(E) libcrc32c(E) rfkill(E) ...
> CPU: 14 PID: 11394 Comm: check_madvise_d Kdump: ...
> Hardware name: ECS, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
> pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
> pc : truncate_inode_page+0x64/0x70
> lr : truncate_inode_page+0x64/0x70
> sp : ffff80001b60b900
> x29: ffff80001b60b900 x28: 00000000000007ff
> x27: ffff80001b60b9a0 x26: 0000000000000000
> x25: 000000000000000f x24: ffff80001b60b9a0
> x23: ffff80001b60ba18 x22: ffff0001e0999ea8
> x21: ffff0000c21db300 x20: ffffffffffffffff
> x19: fffffe001310ffc0 x18: 0000000000000020
> x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
> x15: ffff0000c21db960 x14: 3030306666666620
> x13: 6666666666666666 x12: 3130303030303030
> x11: ffff8000117b69b8 x10: 00000000ffff8000
> x9 : ffff80001012690c x8 : 0000000000000000
> x7 : ffff8000114f69b8 x6 : 0000000000017ffd
> x5 : ffff0007fffbcbc8 x4 : ffff80001b60b5c0
> x3 : 0000000000000001 x2 : 0000000000000000
> x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
> Call trace:
>   truncate_inode_page+0x64/0x70
>   truncate_inode_pages_range+0x550/0x7e4
>   truncate_pagecache+0x58/0x80
>   do_dentry_open+0x1e4/0x3c0
>   vfs_open+0x38/0x44
>   do_open+0x1f0/0x310
>   path_openat+0x114/0x1dc
>   do_filp_open+0x84/0x134
>   do_sys_openat2+0xbc/0x164
>   __arm64_sys_openat+0x74/0xc0
>   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x88/0x220
>   do_el0_svc+0x30/0xa0
>   el0_svc+0x20/0x30
>   el0_sync_handler+0x1a4/0x1b0
>   el0_sync+0x180/0x1c0
> Code: aa0103e0 900061e1 910ec021 9400d300 (d4210000)
> ---[ end trace f70cdb42cb7c2d42 ]---
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops - BUG: Fatal exception
> 
> This patch mainly to lock filemap when one enter truncate_pagecache(),
> avoiding truncating the same page cache concurrently.
> 
> Fixes: eb6ecbed0aa2 ("mm, thp: relax the VM_DENYWRITE constraint on file-backed THPs")
> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
> Tested-by: Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Xu Yu <xuyu@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rongwei Wang <rongwei.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>   fs/open.c | 5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
> index daa324606a41..9ec3cfca3b1a 100644
> --- a/fs/open.c
> +++ b/fs/open.c
> @@ -856,8 +856,11 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f,
>   		 * of THPs into the page cache will fail.
>   		 */
>   		smp_mb();
> -		if (filemap_nr_thps(inode->i_mapping))
> +		if (filemap_nr_thps(inode->i_mapping)) {
> +			filemap_invalidate_lock(inode->i_mapping);
>   			truncate_pagecache(inode, 0);
> +			filemap_invalidate_unlock(inode->i_mapping);
> +		}
>   	}
>   
>   	return 0;
>