Re: BUG_ON() in pfn_swap_entry_to_page()

Felix Kuehling
2024-04-24T19:45:41Z

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Sorry for top-posting. I'm resurrecting an old thread here because I
think I ran into the same problem with this assertion failing on Linux 6.7:

static inline struct page *pfn_swap_entry_to_page(swp_entry_t entry)
{
struct page *p = pfn_to_page(swp_offset_pfn(entry));

/*
* Any use of migration entries may only occur while the
* corresponding page is locked
*/
--> BUG_ON(is_migration_entry(entry) && !PageLocked(p));

return p;
}

It looks like this thread just fizzled two years ago. Did anything ever
come of this?

Maybe I should add that I saw this in a pre-silicon test environment.
I've never seen this on real hardware. Maybe something timing-sensitive.

Regards,
Felix

On 2022-03-23 23:51, Alistair Popple wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox<willy@infradead.org> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 11:29:12AM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
>>> Matthew Wilcox<willy@infradead.org> writes:
>>>> It's not been reported before, but it seems obvious why it triggers.
>>>> I think it's ffa65753c431 "mm/migrate.c: rework migration_entry_wait()
>>>> to not take a pageref".
>>> It's obvious the BUG_ON() is because the page isn't locked, but it's less
>>> obvious to me at least why we have a migration entry pointing to an unlocked
>>> page.
>>>
>>>> There's a lot of inlining going on, so let's write this out:
>>>>
>>>> __handle_mm_fault
>>>> handle_pte_fault
>>>> do_swap_page():
>>>>
>>>> entry = pte_to_swp_entry(vmf->orig_pte);
>>>> if (unlikely(non_swap_entry(entry))) {
>>>> if (is_migration_entry(entry)) {
>>>> migration_entry_wait(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd,
>>>> vmf->address);
>>>>
>>>> We don't (and can't) have the underlying page locked here. We're just
>>>> waiting for it to finish migration.
>>> Why can't the page be locked here? Waiting for migration to finish is equivalent
>>> to waiting for the page to be unlocked. __unmap_and_move() follows this rough
>>> sequence:
>>>
>>> __unmap_and_move()
>>> if (!trylock_page(page)) {
>>> if (!force || mode `= MIGRATE_ASYNC)
>>> goto out;
>>>
>>> /*
>>> * It's not safe for direct compaction to call lock_page.
>>> * For example, during page readahead pages are added locked
>>> * to the LRU. Later, when the IO completes the pages are
>>> * marked uptodate and unlocked. However, the queueing
>>> * could be merging multiple pages for one bio (e.g.
>>> * mpage_readahead). If an allocation happens for the
>>> * second or third page, the process can end up locking
>>> * the same page twice and deadlocking. Rather than
>>> * trying to be clever about what pages can be locked,
>>> * avoid the use of lock_page for direct compaction
>>> * altogether.
>>> */
>>> if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)
>>> goto out;
>>>
>>> lock_page(page);
>>> }
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> if (unlikely(!trylock_page(newpage)))
>>> goto out_unlock;
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> } else if (page_mapped(page)) {
>>> /* Establish migration ptes */
>>> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageAnon(page) && !PageKsm(page) && !anon_vma,
>>> page);
>>> try_to_migrate(page, 0);
>>> page_was_mapped = true;
>>> }
>>>
>>> if (!page_mapped(page))
>>> rc = move_to_new_page(newpage, page, mode);
>>>
>>> if (page_was_mapped)
>>> remove_migration_ptes(page,
>>> rc =' MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS ? newpage : page, false);
>>>
>>> Both the source and destination pages (page and newpage respectively) are locked
>>> prior to installing migration entries in try_to_migrate() and unlocked after
>>> migration entries are removed. In order to remove a migration entry the PTL is
>>> required. Therefore while holding the PTL for a migration entry it should be
>>> impossible to observe it pointing to an unlocked page.
>> Hm, right. We check the PTE initially, then take the PTL in
>> __migration_entry_wait() and then re-check that it's still a migration
>> entry. I can't think of how we're seeing this ...
> Right. The only thing I can think of is if we somehow didn't find all the
> migration entries to remove once migration is complete. There have been a few
> changes to page_vma_mapped_walk() but I haven't spotted anything yet that would
> cause this.

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