Re: [PATCH] arch, mm: introduce arch_tlb_gather_mmu_lazy (was: Re: [RESEND PATCH] mm, oom_reaper: gather each vma to prevent) leaking TLB entry

Minchan Kim
2017-11-13T00:28:36Z

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 01:26:35PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 10-11-17 11:15:29, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Fri 10-11-17 09:19:33, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 09:54:53AM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:
> > > > tlb_gather_mmu(&tlb, mm, 0, -1) means gathering the whole virtual memory
> > > > space. In this case, tlb->fullmm is true. Some archs like arm64 doesn't
> > > > flush TLB when tlb->fullmm is true:
> > > >
> > > > commit 5a7862e83000 ("arm64: tlbflush: avoid flushing when fullmm == 1").
> > > >
> > > > Which makes leaking of tlb entries.
> > >
> > > That means soft-dirty which has used tlb_gather_mmu with fullmm could be
> > > broken via losing write-protection bit once it supports arm64 in future?
> > >
> > > If so, it would be better to use TASK_SIZE rather than -1 in tlb_gather_mmu.
> > > Of course, it's a off-topic.
> >
> > I wouldn't play tricks like that. And maybe the API itself could be more
> > explicit. E.g. add a lazy parameter which would allow arch specific code
> > to not flush if it is sure that nobody can actually stumble over missed
> > flush. E.g. the following?
>
> This one has a changelog and even compiles on my crosscompile test
> ---
> From 7f0fcd2cab379ddac5611b2a520cdca8a77a235b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:27:17 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] arch, mm: introduce arch_tlb_gather_mmu_lazy
>
> 5a7862e83000 ("arm64: tlbflush: avoid flushing when fullmm == 1") has
> introduced an optimization to not flush tlb when we are tearing the
> whole address space down. Will goes on to explain
>
> : Basically, we tag each address space with an ASID (PCID on x86) which
> : is resident in the TLB. This means we can elide TLB invalidation when
> : pulling down a full mm because we won't ever assign that ASID to
> : another mm without doing TLB invalidation elsewhere (which actually
> : just nukes the whole TLB).
>
> This all is nice but tlb_gather users are not aware of that and this can
> actually cause some real problems. E.g. the oom_reaper tries to reap the
> whole address space but it might race with threads accessing the memory [1].
> It is possible that soft-dirty handling might suffer from the same
> problem [2].
>
> Introduce an explicit lazy variant tlb_gather_mmu_lazy which allows the
> behavior arm64 implements for the fullmm case and replace it by an
> explicit lazy flag in the mmu_gather structure. exit_mmap path is then
> turned into the explicit lazy variant. Other architectures simply ignore
> the flag.
>
> [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171106033651.172368-1-wangnan0@huawei.com
> [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171110001933.GA12421@bbox
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h | 3 ++-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/tlb.h | 2 +-
> arch/ia64/include/asm/tlb.h | 3 ++-
> arch/s390/include/asm/tlb.h | 3 ++-
> arch/sh/include/asm/tlb.h | 2 +-
> arch/um/include/asm/tlb.h | 2 +-
> include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 6 ++++--
> include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 ++
> mm/memory.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
> mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
> 10 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h
> index d5562f9ce600..fe9042aee8e9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h
> @@ -149,7 +149,8 @@ static inline void tlb_flush_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
>
> static inline void
> arch_tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm,
> - unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> + unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> + bool lazy)
>

Thanks for the patch, Michal.
However, it would be nice to do it tranparently without asking
new flags from users.

When I read tlb_gather_mmu's description, fullmm is supposed to
be used only if there is no users and full address space.

That means we can do it API itself like this?

void arch_tlb_gather_mmu(...)

tlb->fullmm = !(start | (end + 1)) && atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 0;