From a3e328556d41bb61c55f9dfcc62d6a826ea97b85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:39:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm, gup: remove broken VM_BUG_ON_PAGE compound check for hugepages When operating on hugepages with DEBUG_VM enabled, the GUP code checks the compound head for each tail page prior to calling page_cache_add_speculative. This is broken, because on the fast-GUP path (where we don't hold any page table locks) we can be racing with a concurrent invocation of split_huge_page_to_list. split_huge_page_to_list deals with this race by using page_ref_freeze to freeze the page and force concurrent GUPs to fail whilst the component pages are modified. This modification includes clearing the compound_head field for the tail pages, so checking this prior to a successful call to page_cache_add_speculative can lead to false positives: In fact, page_cache_add_speculative *already* has this check once the page refcount has been successfully updated, so we can simply remove the broken calls to VM_BUG_ON_PAGE. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170522133604.11392-2-punit.agrawal@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal Acked-by: Steve Capper Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Kravetz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/gup.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c index 9e472cb835b5..1e68bf213302 100644 --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -1426,7 +1426,6 @@ static int gup_huge_pmd(pmd_t orig, pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, head = pmd_page(orig); page = head + ((addr & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); do { - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_head(page) != head, page); pages[*nr] = page; (*nr)++; page++; @@ -1465,7 +1464,6 @@ static int gup_huge_pud(pud_t orig, pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr, head = pud_page(orig); page = head + ((addr & ~PUD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); do { - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_head(page) != head, page); pages[*nr] = page; (*nr)++; page++; @@ -1503,7 +1501,6 @@ static int gup_huge_pgd(pgd_t orig, pgd_t *pgdp, unsigned long addr, head = pgd_page(orig); page = head + ((addr & ~PGDIR_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); do { - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_head(page) != head, page); pages[*nr] = page; (*nr)++; page++; -- 2.20.1