From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/15] mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 16:21:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52A23FD1.3040102@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00000142c99cf5b0-69cc9987-aa36-4889-af6a-1a45032d0d13-000000@email.amazonses.com>
On 12/06/2013 03:32 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2013, Rik van Riel wrote:
>>
>> The basic race looks like this:
>>
>> CPU A CPU B CPU C
>>
>> load TLB entry
>> make entry PTE/PMD_NUMA
>> fault on entry
>> read/write old page
>> start migrating page
>
> When you start migrating a page a special page migration entry is
> created that will trap all accesses to the page. You can safely flush when
> the migration entry is there. Only allow a new PTE/PMD to be put there
> *after* the tlb flush.
A PROT_NONE or NUMA pte is just as effective as a migration pte.
The only problem is, the TLB flush was not always done...
>
>> change PTE/PMD to new page
>
> Dont do that. We have migration entries for a reason.
We do not have migration entries for hugepages, do we?
>> read/write old page [*]
>
> Should cause a page fault which should put the process to sleep. Process
> will safely read the page after the migration entry is removed.
>
>> flush TLB
>
> Establish the new PTE/PMD after the flush removing the migration pte
> entry and thereby avoiding the race.
That is what this patch does.
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-03 8:51 [PATCH 00/14] NUMA balancing segmentation faults candidate fix on large machines Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:51 ` [PATCH 01/15] mm: numa: Do not batch handle PMD pages Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:51 ` [PATCH 02/15] mm: hugetlbfs: fix hugetlbfs optimization Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:51 ` [PATCH 03/15] mm: thp: give transparent hugepage code a separate copy_page Mel Gorman
2013-12-04 16:59 ` Alex Thorlton
2013-12-05 13:35 ` Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:51 ` [PATCH 04/15] mm: numa: Serialise parallel get_user_page against THP migration Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 23:07 ` Rik van Riel
2013-12-03 23:54 ` Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:51 ` [PATCH 05/15] mm: numa: Call MMU notifiers on " Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:51 ` [PATCH 06/15] mm: Clear pmd_numa before invalidating Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:51 ` [PATCH 07/15] mm: numa: Do not clear PMD during PTE update scan Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:51 ` [PATCH 08/15] mm: numa: Do not clear PTE for pte_numa update Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:51 ` [PATCH 09/15] mm: numa: Ensure anon_vma is locked to prevent parallel THP splits Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:51 ` [PATCH 10/15] mm: numa: Avoid unnecessary work on the failure path Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:51 ` [PATCH 11/15] sched: numa: Skip inaccessible VMAs Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:51 ` [PATCH 12/15] Clear numa on mprotect Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:52 ` [PATCH 13/15] mm: numa: Avoid unnecessary disruption of NUMA hinting during migration Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 8:52 ` [PATCH 14/15] mm: numa: Flush TLB if NUMA hinting faults race with PTE scan update Mel Gorman
2013-12-03 23:07 ` Rik van Riel
2013-12-03 23:46 ` Mel Gorman
2013-12-04 14:33 ` Rik van Riel
2013-12-04 16:07 ` Mel Gorman
2013-12-05 15:40 ` Rik van Riel
2013-12-05 19:54 ` Mel Gorman
2013-12-05 20:05 ` Rik van Riel
2013-12-06 9:24 ` Mel Gorman
2013-12-06 17:38 ` Alex Thorlton
2013-12-06 18:32 ` Mel Gorman
2013-12-06 19:13 ` [PATCH 14/15] mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range Rik van Riel
2013-12-06 20:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-12-06 21:21 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2013-12-07 0:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-12-07 3:14 ` Rik van Riel
2013-12-09 16:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-12-09 16:27 ` Mel Gorman
2013-12-09 16:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-12-09 21:01 ` Rik van Riel
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