From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Jason Evans <je@fb.com>,
"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
"[4.5+]" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: pmd dirty emulation in page fault handler
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:17:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161222081713.GA32480@node.shutemov.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1482364101-16204-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org>
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 08:48:21AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Andreas reported [1] made a test in jemalloc hang in THP mode in arm64.
I guess you wanted put b8d3c4c3009d before [1], right?
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/mvmmvfy37g1.fsf@hawking.suse.de
>
> The problem is page fault handler supports only accessed flag emulation
> for THP page of SW-dirty/accessed architecture.
>
> This patch enables dirty-bit emulation for those architectures.
> Without it, MADV_FREE makes application hang by repeated fault forever.
>
> [1] mm/huge_memory.c: don't split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called
>
> Cc: Jason Evans <je@fb.com>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.5+]
> Fixes: b8d3c4c3009d ("mm/huge_memory.c: don't split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called")
> Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> ---
> mm/huge_memory.c | 6 ++++--
> mm/memory.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index 10eedbf..29ec8a4 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -883,15 +883,17 @@ void huge_pmd_set_accessed(struct vm_fault *vmf, pmd_t orig_pmd)
> {
> pmd_t entry;
> unsigned long haddr;
> + bool write = vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
>
> vmf->ptl = pmd_lock(vmf->vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd);
> if (unlikely(!pmd_same(*vmf->pmd, orig_pmd)))
> goto unlock;
>
> entry = pmd_mkyoung(orig_pmd);
> + if (write)
> + entry = pmd_mkdirty(entry);
> haddr = vmf->address & HPAGE_PMD_MASK;
> - if (pmdp_set_access_flags(vmf->vma, haddr, vmf->pmd, entry,
> - vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE))
> + if (pmdp_set_access_flags(vmf->vma, haddr, vmf->pmd, entry, write))
> update_mmu_cache_pmd(vmf->vma, vmf->address, vmf->pmd);
>
> unlock:
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 36c774f..7408ddc 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -3637,18 +3637,20 @@ static int __handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
> if (pmd_protnone(orig_pmd) && vma_is_accessible(vma))
> return do_huge_pmd_numa_page(&vmf, orig_pmd);
>
> - if ((vmf.flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) &&
> - !pmd_write(orig_pmd)) {
> - ret = wp_huge_pmd(&vmf, orig_pmd);
> - if (!(ret & VM_FAULT_FALLBACK))
> + if (vmf.flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) {
> + if (!pmd_write(orig_pmd)) {
> + ret = wp_huge_pmd(&vmf, orig_pmd);
> + if (ret == VM_FAULT_FALLBACK)
In theory, more than one flag can be set and it would lead to
false-negative. Bit check was the right thing.
And I don't understand why do you need to change code in
__handle_mm_fault() at all.
>From what I see change to huge_pmd_set_accessed() should be enough.
> + goto pte_fault;
> return ret;
> - } else {
> - huge_pmd_set_accessed(&vmf, orig_pmd);
> - return 0;
> + }
> }
> +
> + huge_pmd_set_accessed(&vmf, orig_pmd);
> + return 0;
> }
> }
> -
> +pte_fault:
> return handle_pte_fault(&vmf);
> }
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-22 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-21 23:48 [PATCH] mm: pmd dirty emulation in page fault handler Minchan Kim
2016-12-22 8:17 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2016-12-22 14:52 ` Minchan Kim
2016-12-22 18:35 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-12-22 22:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-12-23 9:17 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-23 9:53 ` Minchan Kim
2016-12-23 11:54 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-23 14:01 ` Minchan Kim
2016-12-23 14:53 ` Michal Hocko
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