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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 11:58:13 +0200
From: "Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)"
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To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 29/33] x86/mm: try VMA lock-based page fault handling
first
On 29.06.23 16:40, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 27. 02. 23, 18:36, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
>> Attempt VMA lock-based page fault handling first, and fall back to the
>> existing mmap_lock-based handling if that fails.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
>> arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> index a825bf031f49..df21fba77db1 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ config X86_64
>> # Options that are inherently 64-bit kernel only:
>> select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
>> select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if CC_HAS_INT128
>> + select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK
>> select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
>> select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
>> select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> index a498ae1fbe66..e4399983c50c 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>> #include <linux/uaccess.h> /* faulthandler_disabled() */
>> #include <linux/efi.h> /*
>> efi_crash_gracefully_on_page_fault()*/
>> #include <linux/mm_types.h>
>> +#include <linux/mm.h> /* find_and_lock_vma() */
>> #include <asm/cpufeature.h> /* boot_cpu_has, ... */
>> #include <asm/traps.h> /* dotraplinkage, ... */
>> @@ -1333,6 +1334,38 @@ void do_user_addr_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
>> }
>> #endif
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
>> + if (!(flags & FAULT_FLAG_USER))
>> + goto lock_mmap;
>> +
>> + vma = lock_vma_under_rcu(mm, address);
>> + if (!vma)
>> + goto lock_mmap;
>> +
>> + if (unlikely(access_error(error_code, vma))) {
>> + vma_end_read(vma);
>> + goto lock_mmap;
>> + }
>> + fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, flags |
>> FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK, regs);
>> + vma_end_read(vma);
>> +
>> + if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY)) {
>> + count_vm_vma_lock_event(VMA_LOCK_SUCCESS);
>> + goto done;
>> + }
>> + count_vm_vma_lock_event(VMA_LOCK_RETRY);
>
> This is apparently not strong enough as it causes go build failures like:
TWIMC & for the record: there is another report about trouble caused by
this change; for details see
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217624
And a "forward to devs and lists" thread about that report:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/facbfec3-837a-51ed-85fa-31021c17d6ef@gmail.com/
Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
--
Everything you wanna know about Linux kernel regression tracking:
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If I did something stupid, please tell me, as explained on that page.
> [ 409s] strconv
> [ 409s] releasep: m=0x579e2000 m->p=0x5781c600 p->m=0x0 p->status=2
> [ 409s] fatal error: releasep: invalid p state
> [ 409s]
>
> [ 325s] hash/adler32
> [ 325s] hash/crc32
> [ 325s] cmd/internal/codesign
> [ 336s] fatal error: runtime: out of memory
>
> There are many kinds of similar errors. It happens in 1-3 out of 20
> builds only.
>
> If I revert the commit on top of 6.4, they all dismiss. Any idea?
>
> The downstream report:
> https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212775
>
>> +
>> + /* Quick path to respond to signals */
>> + if (fault_signal_pending(fault, regs)) {
>> + if (!user_mode(regs))
>> + kernelmode_fixup_or_oops(regs, error_code, address,
>> + SIGBUS, BUS_ADRERR,
>> + ARCH_DEFAULT_PKEY);
>> + return;
>> + }
>> +lock_mmap:
>> +#endif /* CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK */
>> +
>> /*
>> * Kernel-mode access to the user address space should only occur
>> * on well-defined single instructions listed in the exception
>> @@ -1433,6 +1466,9 @@ void do_user_addr_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
>> }
>> mmap_read_unlock(mm);
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
>> +done:
>> +#endif
>> if (likely(!(fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR)))
>> return;
>>
>
> thanks,
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