Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:14:42 +0800
From:   Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@...edance.com>
To:     "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@...edance.com>, corbet@....net,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, willy@...radead.org, brauner@...nel.org,
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        peterz@...radead.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        npiggin@...il.com, avagin@...il.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] fork: Use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in
 dup_mmap()



在 2023/9/16 04:00, Liam R. Howlett 写道:
> * Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@...edance.com> [230915 06:57]:
>>
>>
> 
> ...
> 
>>>>> +    if (unlikely(retval))
>>>>>            goto out;
>>>>>        mt_clear_in_rcu(vmi.mas.tree);
>>>>> -    for_each_vma(old_vmi, mpnt) {
>>>>> +    for_each_vma(vmi, mpnt) {
>>>>>            struct file *file;
>>>>>            vma_start_write(mpnt);
>>>>>            if (mpnt->vm_flags & VM_DONTCOPY) {
>>>>>                vm_stat_account(mm, mpnt->vm_flags, -vma_pages(mpnt));
>>>>> +
>>>>> +            /*
>>>>> +             * Since the new tree is exactly the same as the old one,
>>>>> +             * we need to remove the unneeded VMAs.
>>>>> +             */
>>>>> +            mas_store(&vmi.mas, NULL);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +            /*
>>>>> +             * Even removing an entry may require memory allocation,
>>>>> +             * and if removal fails, we use XA_ZERO_ENTRY to mark
>>>>> +             * from which VMA it failed. The case of encountering
>>>>> +             * XA_ZERO_ENTRY will be handled in exit_mmap().
>>>>> +             */
>>>>> +            if (unlikely(mas_is_err(&vmi.mas))) {
>>>>> +                retval = xa_err(vmi.mas.node);
>>>>> +                mas_reset(&vmi.mas);
>>>>> +                if (mas_find(&vmi.mas, ULONG_MAX))
>>>>> +                    mas_store(&vmi.mas, XA_ZERO_ENTRY);
>>>>> +                goto loop_out;
>>>>> +            }
>>>>> +
>>>>
>>>> Storing NULL may need extra space as you noted, so we need to be careful
>>>> what happens if we don't have that space.  We should have a testcase to
>>>> test this scenario.
>>>>
>>>> mas_store_gfp() should be used with GFP_KERNEL.  The VMAs use GFP_KERNEL
>>>> in this function, see vm_area_dup().
>>>>
>>>> Don't use the exit_mmap() path to undo a failed fork.  You've added
>>>> checks and complications to the exit path for all tasks in the very
>>>> unlikely event that we run out of memory when we hit a very unlikely
>>>> VM_DONTCOPY flag.
>>>>
>>>> I see the issue with having a portion of the tree with new VMAs that are
>>>> accounted and a portion of the tree that has old VMAs that should not be
>>>> looked at.  It was clever to use the XA_ZERO_ENTRY as a stop point, but
>>>> we cannot add that complication to the exit path and then there is the
>>>> OOM race to worry about (maybe, I am not sure since this MM isn't
>>>> active yet).
>>> I encountered some errors after implementing the scheme you mentioned
>>> below.
> 
> What were the errors?  Maybe I missed something or there is another way.
I found the cause of the problem and fixed it, tested the error path and
it seems to be working fine now.

The reason is that "free_pgd_range(tlb, addr, vma->vm_end,floor, next?
next->vm_start: ceiling);" in free_pgtables() does not free all page
tables due to the existence of the last false VMA. I've fixed it.
Thanks.

> 
>>> This would also clutter fork.c and mmap.c, as some internal
>>> functions would need to be made global.
> 
> Could it not be a new function in mm/mmap.c and added to mm/internal.h
> that does the accounting and VMA freeing from [0 - vma->vm_start)?
> 
> Maybe we could use it in the other areas that do this sort of work?
> do_vmi_align_munmap() does something similar to what we need after the
> "Point of no return".
> 
>>>
>>> I thought of another way to put everything into maple tree. In non-RCU
>>> mode, we can remove the last half of the tree without allocating any
>>> memory. This requires modifications to the internal implementation of
>>> mas_store().
>>> Then remove the second half of the tree like this:
>>>
>>> mas.index = 0;
>> Sorry, typo.
>> Change to: mas.index = vma->start
>>> mas.last = ULONGN_MAX;
>>> mas_store(&mas, NULL).
> 
> Well, we know we are not in RCU mode here, but I am concerned about this
> going poorly.
> 
>>
>>>
>>> At least in non-RCU mode, we can do this, since we only need to merge
>>> some nodes, or move some items to adjacent nodes.
>>> However, this will increase the workload significantly.
> 
> In the unlikely event of an issue allocating memory, this would be
> unwelcome.  If we can avoid it, it would be best.  I don't mind being
> slow in error paths, but a significant workload would be rather bad on
> an overloaded system.
> 
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Using what is done in exit_mmap() and do_vmi_align_munmap() as a
>>>> prototype, we can do something like the *untested* code below:
>>>>
>>>> if (unlikely(mas_is_err(&vmi.mas))) {
>>>>      unsigned long max = vmi.index;
>>>>
>>>>      retval = xa_err(vmi.mas.node);
>>>>      mas_set(&vmi.mas, 0);
>>>>      tmp = mas_find(&vmi.mas, ULONG_MAX);
>>>>      if (tmp) { /* Not the first VMA failed */
>>>>          unsigned long nr_accounted = 0;
>>>>
>>>>          unmap_region(mm, &vmi.mas, vma, NULL, mpnt, 0, max, max,
>>>>                  true);
>>>>          do {
>>>>              if (vma->vm_flags & VM_ACCOUNT)
>>>>                  nr_accounted += vma_pages(vma);
>>>>              remove_vma(vma, true);
>>>>              cond_resched();
>>>>              vma = mas_find(&vmi.mas, max - 1);
>>>>          } while (vma != NULL);
>>>>
>>>>          vm_unacct_memory(nr_accounted);
>>>>      }
>>>>      __mt_destroy(&mm->mm_mt);
>>>>      goto loop_out;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Once exit_mmap() is called, the check for OOM (no vma) will catch that
>>>> nothing is left to do.
>>>>
>>>> It might be worth making an inline function to do this to keep the fork
>>>> code clean.  We should test this by detecting a specific task name and
>>>> returning a failure at a given interval:
>>>>
>>>> if (!strcmp(current->comm, "fork_test") {
>>>> ...
>>>> }
>>>>
> ...
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Liam
> 

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