linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix missing wake-up event for FSDAX pages

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Message-ID: <YsLDGEiVSHN3Xx/g@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 4 Jul 2022 11:38:16 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jgg@...pe.ca, jhubbard@...dia.com,
        william.kucharski@...cle.com, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        jack@...e.cz, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, nvdimm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix missing wake-up event for FSDAX pages

On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 03:40:54PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> FSDAX page refcounts are 1-based, rather than 0-based: if refcount is
> 1, then the page is freed.  The FSDAX pages can be pinned through GUP,
> then they will be unpinned via unpin_user_page() using a folio variant
> to put the page, however, folio variants did not consider this special
> case, the result will be to miss a wakeup event (like the user of
> __fuse_dax_break_layouts()).

Argh, no.  The 1-based refcounts are a blight on the entire kernel.
They need to go away, not be pushed into folios as well.  I think
we're close to having that fixed, but until then, this should do
the trick?

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index cc98ab012a9b..4cef5e0f78b6 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1129,18 +1129,18 @@ static inline bool is_zone_movable_page(const struct page *page)
 #if defined(CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE) && defined(CONFIG_FS_DAX)
 DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(devmap_managed_key);
 
-bool __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page);
-static inline bool put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
+bool __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page, int refs);
+static inline bool put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page, int refs)
 {
 	if (!static_branch_unlikely(&devmap_managed_key))
 		return false;
 	if (!is_zone_device_page(page))
 		return false;
-	return __put_devmap_managed_page(page);
+	return __put_devmap_managed_page(page, refs);
 }
 
 #else /* CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE && CONFIG_FS_DAX */
-static inline bool put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
+static inline bool put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page, int refs)
 {
 	return false;
 }
@@ -1246,7 +1246,7 @@ static inline void put_page(struct page *page)
 	 * For some devmap managed pages we need to catch refcount transition
 	 * from 2 to 1:
 	 */
-	if (put_devmap_managed_page(&folio->page))
+	if (put_devmap_managed_page(&folio->page, 1))
 		return;
 	folio_put(folio);
 }
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index d1132b39aa8f..28df02121c78 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ static inline struct folio *try_get_folio(struct page *page, int refs)
 	 * belongs to this folio.
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(page_folio(page) != folio)) {
-		folio_put_refs(folio, refs);
+		if (!put_devmap_managed_page(&folio->page, refs))
+			folio_put_refs(folio, refs);
 		goto retry;
 	}
 
@@ -177,6 +178,8 @@ static void gup_put_folio(struct folio *folio, int refs, unsigned int flags)
 			refs *= GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS;
 	}
 
+	if (put_devmap_managed_page(&folio->page, refs))
+		return;
 	folio_put_refs(folio, refs);
 }
 
diff --git a/mm/memremap.c b/mm/memremap.c
index b870a659eee6..b25e40e3a11e 100644
--- a/mm/memremap.c
+++ b/mm/memremap.c
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ void free_zone_device_page(struct page *page)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
-bool __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
+bool __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page, int refs)
 {
 	if (page->pgmap->type != MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX)
 		return false;
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ bool __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
 	 * refcount is 1, then the page is free and the refcount is
 	 * stable because nobody holds a reference on the page.
 	 */
-	if (page_ref_dec_return(page) == 1)
+	if (page_ref_sub_return(page, refs) == 1)
 		wake_up_var(&page->_refcount);
 	return true;
 }
diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index c6194cfa2af6..94e42a9bab92 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr)
 				unlock_page_lruvec_irqrestore(lruvec, flags);
 				lruvec = NULL;
 			}
-			if (put_devmap_managed_page(&folio->page))
+			if (put_devmap_managed_page(&folio->page, 1))
 				continue;
 			if (folio_put_testzero(folio))
 				free_zone_device_page(&folio->page);