linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/1] mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries

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Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2023 10:58:36 -0700
From:   Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     willy@...radead.org, hannes@...xchg.org, mhocko@...e.com,
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Subject: [PATCH v3 1/1] mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault
 handler retries

If the page fault handler requests a retry, we will count the fault
multiple times. This is a relatively harmless problem as the retry paths
are not often requested, and the only user-visible problem is that the
fault counter will be slightly higher than it should be.  Nevertheless,
userspace only took one fault, and should not see the fact that the
kernel had to retry the fault multiple times.
Move page fault accounting into mm_account_fault() and skip incomplete
faults which will be accounted upon completion.

Fixes: d065bd810b6d ("mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer")
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
---
Changes from v2 (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230415000818.1955007-1-surenb@google.com/):
- Updated comments per Matthew Wilcox and Peter Xu

 mm/memory.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 01a23ad48a04..7ce9286ee4d4 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -5080,24 +5080,31 @@ static vm_fault_t __handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
  * updates.  However, note that the handling of PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS should
  * still be in per-arch page fault handlers at the entry of page fault.
  */
-static inline void mm_account_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
+static inline void mm_account_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct pt_regs *regs,
 				    unsigned long address, unsigned int flags,
 				    vm_fault_t ret)
 {
 	bool major;
 
+	/* Incomplete faults will be accounted upon completion. */
+	if (ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY)
+		return;
+
 	/*
-	 * We don't do accounting for some specific faults:
-	 *
-	 * - Unsuccessful faults (e.g. when the address wasn't valid).  That
-	 *   includes arch_vma_access_permitted() failing before reaching here.
-	 *   So this is not a "this many hardware page faults" counter.  We
-	 *   should use the hw profiling for that.
-	 *
-	 * - Incomplete faults (VM_FAULT_RETRY).  They will only be counted
-	 *   once they're completed.
+	 * To preserve the behavior of older kernels, PGFAULT counters record
+	 * both successful and failed faults, as opposed to perf counters,
+	 * which ignore failed cases.
 	 */
-	if (ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_RETRY))
+	count_vm_event(PGFAULT);
+	count_memcg_event_mm(mm, PGFAULT);
+
+	/*
+	 * Do not account for unsuccessful faults (e.g. when the address wasn't
+	 * valid).  That includes arch_vma_access_permitted() failing before
+	 * reaching here. So this is not a "this many hardware page faults"
+	 * counter.  We should use the hw profiling for that.
+	 */
+	if (ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR)
 		return;
 
 	/*
@@ -5180,21 +5187,22 @@ static vm_fault_t sanitize_fault_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 vm_fault_t handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 			   unsigned int flags, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
+	/* If the fault handler drops the mmap_lock, vma may be freed */
+	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
 	vm_fault_t ret;
 
 	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 
-	count_vm_event(PGFAULT);
-	count_memcg_event_mm(vma->vm_mm, PGFAULT);
-
 	ret = sanitize_fault_flags(vma, &flags);
 	if (ret)
-		return ret;
+		goto out;
 
 	if (!arch_vma_access_permitted(vma, flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE,
 					    flags & FAULT_FLAG_INSTRUCTION,
-					    flags & FAULT_FLAG_REMOTE))
-		return VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV;
+					    flags & FAULT_FLAG_REMOTE)) {
+		ret = VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Enable the memcg OOM handling for faults triggered in user
@@ -5223,8 +5231,8 @@ vm_fault_t handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 		if (task_in_memcg_oom(current) && !(ret & VM_FAULT_OOM))
 			mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(false);
 	}
-
-	mm_account_fault(regs, address, flags, ret);
+out:
+	mm_account_fault(mm, regs, address, flags, ret);
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.40.0.634.g4ca3ef3211-goog