linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: shmem: fix getting incorrect lruvec when replacing a shmem folio

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Message-ID: <bacd22ac-a6c8-477f-8626-b42832845ee0@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 08:44:43 +0800
From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hughd@...gle.com, hannes@...xchg.org,
 nphamcs@...il.com, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: shmem: fix getting incorrect lruvec when replacing a
 shmem folio



On 2024/6/14 06:20, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 04:21:19PM GMT, Baolin Wang wrote:
>> When testing shmem swapin, I encountered the warning below on my machine.
>> The reason is that replacing an old shmem folio with a new one causes
>> mem_cgroup_migrate() to clear the old folio's memcg data. As a result,
>> the old folio cannot get the correct memcg's lruvec needed to remove itself
>> from the LRU list when it is being freed. This could lead to possible serious
>> problems, such as LRU list crashes due to holding the wrong LRU lock, and
>> incorrect LRU statistics.
>>
>> To fix this issue, we can fallback to use the mem_cgroup_replace_folio()
>> to replace the old shmem folio.
>>
>> [ 5241.100311] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x5d9960
>> [ 5241.100317] head: order:4 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
>> [ 5241.100319] flags: 0x17fffe0000040068(uptodate|lru|head|swapbacked|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x3ffff)
>> [ 5241.100323] raw: 17fffe0000040068 fffffdffd6687948 fffffdffd69ae008 0000000000000000
>> [ 5241.100325] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
>> [ 5241.100326] head: 17fffe0000040068 fffffdffd6687948 fffffdffd69ae008 0000000000000000
>> [ 5241.100327] head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
>> [ 5241.100328] head: 17fffe0000000204 fffffdffd6665801 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000
>> [ 5241.100329] head: 0000000a00000010 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
>> [ 5241.100330] page dumped because: VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(!memcg && !mem_cgroup_disabled())
>> [ 5241.100338] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> [ 5241.100339] WARNING: CPU: 19 PID: 78402 at include/linux/memcontrol.h:775 folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x140/0x150
>> [...]
>> [ 5241.100374] pc : folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x140/0x150
>> [ 5241.100375] lr : folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x138/0x150
>> [ 5241.100376] sp : ffff80008b38b930
>> [...]
>> [ 5241.100398] Call trace:
>> [ 5241.100399]  folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x140/0x150
>> [ 5241.100401]  __page_cache_release+0x90/0x300
>> [ 5241.100404]  __folio_put+0x50/0x108
>> [ 5241.100406]  shmem_replace_folio+0x1b4/0x240
>> [ 5241.100409]  shmem_swapin_folio+0x314/0x528
>> [ 5241.100411]  shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x3b4/0x930
>> [ 5241.100412]  shmem_fault+0x74/0x160
>> [ 5241.100414]  __do_fault+0x40/0x218
>> [ 5241.100417]  do_shared_fault+0x34/0x1b0
>> [ 5241.100419]  do_fault+0x40/0x168
>> [ 5241.100420]  handle_pte_fault+0x80/0x228
>> [ 5241.100422]  __handle_mm_fault+0x1c4/0x440
>> [ 5241.100424]  handle_mm_fault+0x60/0x1f0
>> [ 5241.100426]  do_page_fault+0x120/0x488
>> [ 5241.100429]  do_translation_fault+0x4c/0x68
>> [ 5241.100431]  do_mem_abort+0x48/0xa0
>> [ 5241.100434]  el0_da+0x38/0xc0
>> [ 5241.100436]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x68/0xc0
>> [ 5241.100437]  el0t_64_sync+0x14c/0x150
>> [ 5241.100439] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
>>
>> Fixes: 85ce2c517ade ("memcontrol: only transfer the memcg data for migration")
>> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>

Thanks for reviewing.

> One request: please add VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_lru(folio), folio) in
> mem_cgroup_migrate().

Good suggestion. I will create a separate patch to do this.