linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] mm: rmap: Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when migration

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Date:   Wed, 11 May 2022 19:27:53 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mike.kravetz@...cle.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] mm: rmap: Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when
 migration

On 11.05.22 14:04, Baolin Wang wrote:
> On some architectures (like ARM64), it can support CONT-PTE/PMD size
> hugetlb, which means it can support not only PMD/PUD size hugetlb:
> 2M and 1G, but also CONT-PTE/PMD size: 64K and 32M if a 4K page
> size specified.
> 
> When migrating a hugetlb page, we will get the relevant page table
> entry by huge_pte_offset() only once to nuke it and remap it with
> a migration pte entry. This is correct for PMD or PUD size hugetlb,
> since they always contain only one pmd entry or pud entry in the
> page table.
> 
> However this is incorrect for CONT-PTE and CONT-PMD size hugetlb,
> since they can contain several continuous pte or pmd entry with
> same page table attributes. So we will nuke or remap only one pte
> or pmd entry for this CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb page, which is
> not expected for hugetlb migration. The problem is we can still
> continue to modify the subpages' data of a hugetlb page during
> migrating a hugetlb page, which can cause a serious data consistent
> issue, since we did not nuke the page table entry and set a
> migration pte for the subpages of a hugetlb page.
> 
> To fix this issue, we should change to use huge_ptep_clear_flush()
> to nuke a hugetlb page table, and remap it with set_huge_pte_at()
> and set_huge_swap_pte_at() when migrating a hugetlb page, which
> already considered the CONT-PTE or CONT-PMD size hugetlb.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>

Makes sense to me.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb