Re: mm: BUG in do_huge_pmd_wp_page

[Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>]

On 02/03/2014 10:59 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2014, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On 04/25/2013 10:01 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 08:51:27PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>>    > On 04/24/2013 06:46 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>    > > Guys, did this get fixed?
>>>    >
>>>    > I've stopped seeing that during fuzzing, so I guess that it got fixed
>>> somehow...
>>>
>>> We've had reports of users hitting this in 3.8
>>>
>>> eg:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947985
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956730
>>>
>>> I'm sure there are other reports of it too.
>>>
>>> Would be good if we can figure out what fixed it (if it is actually fixed)
>>> for backporting to stable
>>
>> It's been a while (7 months?), but this one is back...
>>
>> Just hit it again with today's -next:
>>
>> [  762.701278] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at
>> ffff88009eae6000
>> [  762.702462] IP: [<ffffffff81ae8455>] copy_page_rep+0x5/0x10
>> [  762.703369] PGD 84bb067 PUD 22fa81067 PMD 22f98b067 PTE 800000009eae6060
>> [  762.704411] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>> [  762.705873] Dumping ftrace buffer:
>> [  762.707606]    (ftrace buffer empty)
>> [  762.708311] Modules linked in:
>> [  762.708762] CPU: 16 PID: 17920 Comm: trinity-c16 Tainted: G        W
>> 3.13.0-next-2
>> 0140203-sasha-00007-gf4985e2 #23
>> [  762.710135] task: ffff8801ac358000 ti: ffff880199234000 task.ti:
>> ffff880199234000
>> [  762.710135] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81ae8455>]  [<ffffffff81ae8455>]
>> copy_page_rep+0x5/0x
>> 10
>> [  762.710135] RSP: 0018:ffff880199235c90  EFLAGS: 00010286
>> [  762.710135] RAX: 0000000080000002 RBX: 00000000056db980 RCX:
>> 0000000000000200
>> [  762.710135] RDX: ffff8801ac358000 RSI: ffff88009eae6000 RDI:
>> ffff88015b6e6000
>> [  762.710135] RBP: ffff880199235cd8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09:
>> 0000000000000000
>> [  762.710135] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12:
>> 00000000027ab980
>> [  762.710135] R13: 0000000000000200 R14: 00000000000000e6 R15:
>> ffff880000000000
>> [  762.710135] FS:  00007fb0804e1700(0000) GS:ffff88003da00000(0000)
>> knlGS:0000000000000
>> 000
>> [  762.710135] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
>> [  762.710135] CR2: ffff88009eae6000 CR3: 0000000199225000 CR4:
>> 00000000000006e0
>> [  762.710135] Stack:
>> [  762.710135]  ffffffff81298995 ffff8801a841ae00 ffff88003d084520
>> ffff880199227090
>> [  762.710135]  800000009ea008e5 ffff8801a841ae00 ffffea00027a8000
>> ffff880199227090
>> [  762.710135]  ffffea00056d8000 ffff880199235d58 ffffffff812d7260
>> ffff880199235cf8
>> [  762.710135] Call Trace:
>> [  762.710135]  [<ffffffff81298995>] ? copy_user_huge_page+0x1a5/0x210
>> [  762.710135]  [<ffffffff812d7260>] do_huge_pmd_wp_page+0x3d0/0x650
>> [  762.710135]  [<ffffffff811a308e>] ? put_lock_stats+0xe/0x30
>> [  762.710135]  [<ffffffff8129b511>] __handle_mm_fault+0x2b1/0x3d0
>> [  762.710135]  [<ffffffff8129b763>] handle_mm_fault+0x133/0x1c0
>> [  762.710135]  [<ffffffff8129bcf8>] __get_user_pages+0x438/0x630
>> [  762.710135]  [<ffffffff811a308e>] ? put_lock_stats+0xe/0x30
>> [  762.710135]  [<ffffffff8129cfc4>] __mlock_vma_pages_range+0xd4/0xe0
>> [  762.710135]  [<ffffffff8129d0e0>] __mm_populate+0x110/0x190
>> [  762.710135]  [<ffffffff8129dcd0>] SyS_mlockall+0x160/0x1b0
>> [  762.710135]  [<ffffffff84450650>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
>> [  762.710135] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 9c fa 65 48 3b 06 75 14 65 48 3b 56 08
>> 75 0d 65 48 89 1e 65 48 89 4e 08 9d b0 01 c3 9d 30 c0 c3 b9 00 02 00 00 <f3>
>> 48 a5 c3 0f 1f 80 00
>> 00 00 00 eb ee 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90
>> [  762.710135] RIP  [<ffffffff81ae8455>] copy_page_rep+0x5/0x10
>> [  762.710135]  RSP <ffff880199235c90>
>> [  762.710135] CR2: ffff88009eae6000
>
> Here's what I suggested about that one in eecc1e426d68
> "thp: fix copy_page_rep GPF by testing is_huge_zero_pmd once only":
> Note: this is not the same issue as trinity's DEBUG_PAGEALLOC BUG
> in copy_page_rep with RSI: ffff88009c422000, reported by Sasha Levin
> in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/29/103.  I believe that one is due
> to the source page being split, and a tail page freed, while copy
> is in progress; and not a problem without DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, since
> the pmd_same check will prevent a miscopy from being made visible.
>
> It could be fixed by additional locking, or by taking an additional
> reference on every tail page, in the DEBUG_PAGEALLOC case (we wouldn't
> want to add to the overhead in the normal case).  I didn't feel very
> motivated to uglify the code in that way just for DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and
> trinity: if it only comes up once in seven months, I'm inclined to
> live with it myself, but you may have a different perspective.

Either something changed in the kernel or in trinity, but I'm now hitting it 3-4 times a day.

I've been trying to look at the code to understand the issue you've described, but I can't pinpoint 
the exact location where that happen.

Could you please point me to the relevant code sections?


Thanks,
Sasha

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