mm: prevent double decrease of nr_reserved_highatomic
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:42:08 +0000 (16:42 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 02:55:07 +0000 (18:55 -0800)
There is race between page freeing and unreserved highatomic.

 CPU 0     CPU 1

    free_hot_cold_page
      mt = get_pfnblock_migratetype
      set_pcppage_migratetype(page, mt)
         unreserve_highatomic_pageblock
         spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock)
         move_freepages_block
         set_pageblock_migratetype(page)
         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock)
      free_pcppages_bulk
        __free_one_page(mt) <- mt is stale

By above race, a page on CPU 0 could go non-highorderatomic free list
since the pageblock's type is changed.  By that, unreserve logic of
highorderatomic can decrease reserved count on a same pageblock severak
times and then it will make mismatch between nr_reserved_highatomic and
the number of reserved pageblock.

So, this patch verifies whether the pageblock is highatomic or not and
decrease the count only if the pageblock is highatomic.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476259429-18279-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Sangseok Lee <sangseok.lee@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c

index 97170131f2ab94d9c9ff6cb42b950dc5160516c7..8cbc38f923aaf5b8cc3ee391907c9668cc57a5c9 100644 (file)
@@ -2085,13 +2085,25 @@ static void unreserve_highatomic_pageblock(const struct alloc_context *ac)
                                continue;
 
                        /*
-                        * It should never happen but changes to locking could
-                        * inadvertently allow a per-cpu drain to add pages
-                        * to MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC while unreserving so be safe
-                        * and watch for underflows.
+                        * In page freeing path, migratetype change is racy so
+                        * we can counter several free pages in a pageblock
+                        * in this loop althoug we changed the pageblock type
+                        * from highatomic to ac->migratetype. So we should
+                        * adjust the count once.
                         */
-                       zone->nr_reserved_highatomic -= min(pageblock_nr_pages,
-                               zone->nr_reserved_highatomic);
+                       if (get_pageblock_migratetype(page) ==
+                                                       MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC) {
+                               /*
+                                * It should never happen but changes to
+                                * locking could inadvertently allow a per-cpu
+                                * drain to add pages to MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC
+                                * while unreserving so be safe and watch for
+                                * underflows.
+                                */
+                               zone->nr_reserved_highatomic -= min(
+                                               pageblock_nr_pages,
+                                               zone->nr_reserved_highatomic);
+                       }
 
                        /*
                         * Convert to ac->migratetype and avoid the normal