mm/thp: try_to_unmap() use TTU_SYNC for safe splitting
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Wed, 16 Jun 2021 01:23:53 +0000 (18:23 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 10:48:10 +0000 (12:48 +0200)
commit97cd3badbd3432cf40143f2553a3c1ab38346847
treefa408358e09ab59f34ff6f2d06f5eea401be5df0
parent1decdcdf8ac3ea56b6001b3c60f35c7b15daabb3
mm/thp: try_to_unmap() use TTU_SYNC for safe splitting

[ Upstream commit 732ed55823fc3ad998d43b86bf771887bcc5ec67 ]

Stressing huge tmpfs often crashed on unmap_page()'s VM_BUG_ON_PAGE
(!unmap_success): with dump_page() showing mapcount:1, but then its raw
struct page output showing _mapcount ffffffff i.e.  mapcount 0.

And even if that particular VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!unmap_success) is removed,
it is immediately followed by a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_mapcount(head)),
and further down an IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM) total_mapcount BUG():
all indicative of some mapcount difficulty in development here perhaps.
But the !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM path handles the failures correctly and
silently.

I believe the problem is that once a racing unmap has cleared pte or
pmd, try_to_unmap_one() may skip taking the page table lock, and emerge
from try_to_unmap() before the racing task has reached decrementing
mapcount.

Instead of abandoning the unsafe VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(), and the ones that
follow, use PVMW_SYNC in try_to_unmap_one() in this case: adding
TTU_SYNC to the options, and passing that from unmap_page().

When CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, or for non-debug too? Consensus is to do the same
for both: the slight overhead added should rarely matter, except perhaps
if splitting sparsely-populated multiply-mapped shmem.  Once confident
that bugs are fixed, TTU_SYNC here can be removed, and the race
tolerated.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c1e95853-8bcd-d8fd-55fa-e7f2488e78f@google.com
Fixes: fec89c109f3a ("thp: rewrite freeze_page()/unfreeze_page() with generic rmap walkers")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jue Wang <juew@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Wang Yugui <wangyugui@e16-tech.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Note on stable backport: upstream TTU_SYNC 0x10 takes the value which
5.11 commit 013339df116c ("mm/rmap: always do TTU_IGNORE_ACCESS") freed.
It is very tempting to backport that commit (as 5.10 already did) and
make no change here; but on reflection, good as that commit is, I'm
reluctant to include any possible side-effect of it in this series.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
include/linux/rmap.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/page_vma_mapped.c
mm/rmap.c