[PATCH v2 6/6] mm: page_mkclean, ttu: handle pinned pages

john.hubbard
2018-07-02T00:56:54Z

From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>

Update page_mkclean(), page_mkclean's callers, and try_to_unmap(), so that
there is a choice: in some cases, skipped dma-pinned pages. In other cases
(sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL), wait for those pages to become unpinned.

This fixes some problems that came up when using devices (NICs, GPUs, for
example) that set up direct access to a chunk of system (CPU) memory, so
that they can DMA to/from that memory. Problems [1] come up if that memory
is backed by persistence storage; for example, an ext4 file system. This
has caused several customers to experience kernel oops crashes, due to the
BUG_ON, below.

The bugs happen via:

-- get_user_pages() on some ext4-backed pages
-- device does DMA for a while to/from those pages

-- Somewhere in here, some of the pages get disconnected from the
file system, via try_to_unmap() and eventually drop_buffers()

-- device is all done, device driver calls set_page_dirty_locked, then
put_page()

And then at some point, we see a this BUG():

kernel BUG at /build/linux-fQ94TU/linux-4.4.0/fs/ext4/inode.c:1899!
backtrace:
ext4_writepage
__writepage
write_cache_pages
ext4_writepages
do_writepages
__writeback_single_inode
writeback_sb_inodes
__writeback_inodes_wb
wb_writeback
wb_workfn
process_one_work
worker_thread
kthread
ret_from_fork

...which is due to the file system asserting that there are still buffer
heads attached:

({ \
BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page)); \
((struct buffer_head *)page_private(page)); \
})

How to fix this:

If a page is pinned by any of the get_user_page("gup", here) variants, then
there is no need for that page to be on an LRU. So, this patch removes such
pages from their LRU, thus leaving the page->lru fields *mostly* available
for tracking gup pages. (The lowest bit of page->lru.next is used as
PageTail, and these flags have to be checked when we don't know if it
really is a tail page or not, so avoid that bit.)

After that, the page is reference-counted via page->dma_pinned_count, and
flagged via page->dma_pinned_flags. The PageDmaPinned flag is cleared when
the reference count hits zero, and the reference count is only used when
the flag is set, and we can only lock the page *most* of the time that we
look at the flag, so it's a little bit complicated, but it works.

All of the above provides a reliable PageDmaPinned flag, which will be used
in subsequent patches, to decide when to abort or wait for operations such
as:

try_to_unmap()
page_mkclean()

Thanks to Matthew Wilcox for suggesting re-using page->lru fields for a
new refcount and flag, and to Jan Kara for explaining the rest of the
design details (how to deal with page_mkclean() and try_to_unmap(),
especially). Also thanks to Dan Williams for design advice and DAX,
long-term pinning, and page flag thoughts.

References:

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/753027/ : "The Trouble with get_user_pages()"

CC: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_defio.c | 3 +-
include/linux/rmap.h | 4 +-
mm/memory-failure.c | 3 +-
mm/page-writeback.c | 3 +-
mm/rmap.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
mm/truncate.c | 3 +-
6 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_defio.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_defio.c
index 82c20c6047b0..f5aca45adb75 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_defio.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_defio.c
@@ -181,12 +181,13 @@ static void fb_deferred_io_work(struct work_struct *work)
struct list_head *node, *next;
struct page *cur;
struct fb_deferred_io *fbdefio = info->fbdefio;
+ bool skip_pinned_pages = false;

/* here we mkclean the pages, then do all deferred IO */
mutex_lock(&fbdefio->lock);
list_for_each_entry(cur, &fbdefio->pagelist, lru) {
lock_page(cur);
- page_mkclean(cur);
+ page_mkclean(cur, skip_pinned_pages);
unlock_page(cur);
}

diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h
index 988d176472df..f68a473a48fb 100644
--- a/include/linux/rmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/rmap.h
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ unsigned long page_address_in_vma(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *);
*
* returns the number of cleaned PTEs.
*/
-int page_mkclean(struct page *);
+int page_mkclean(struct page *page, bool skip_pinned_pages);

/*
* called in munlock()/munmap() path to check for other vmas holding
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ static inline int page_referenced(struct page *page, int is_locked,

#define try_to_unmap(page, refs) false

-static inline int page_mkclean(struct page *page)
+static inline int page_mkclean(struct page *page, bool skip_pinned_pages)
{
return 0;
}
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 9d142b9b86dc..c4bc8d216746 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -931,6 +931,7 @@ static bool hwpoison_user_mappings(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn,
int kill = 1, forcekill;
struct page *hpage = *hpagep;
bool mlocked = PageMlocked(hpage);
+ bool skip_pinned_pages = false;

/*
* Here we are interested only in user-mapped pages, so skip any
@@ -968,7 +969,7 @@ static bool hwpoison_user_mappings(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn,
mapping = page_mapping(hpage);
if (!(flags & MF_MUST_KILL) && !PageDirty(hpage) && mapping &&
mapping_cap_writeback_dirty(mapping)) {
- if (page_mkclean(hpage)) {
+ if (page_mkclean(hpage, skip_pinned_pages)) {
SetPageDirty(hpage);
} else {
kill = 0;
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index e526b3cbf900..19f4972ba5c6 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2660,6 +2660,7 @@ int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page, int sync_mode)
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
struct bdi_writeback *wb;
struct wb_lock_cookie cookie = {};
+ bool skip_pinned_pages = (sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL);

/*
* Yes, Virginia, this is indeed insane.
@@ -2686,7 +2687,7 @@ int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page, int sync_mode)
* as a serialization point for all the different
* threads doing their things.
*/
- if (page_mkclean(page))
+ if (page_mkclean(page, skip_pinned_pages))
set_page_dirty(page);
/*
* We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 6db729dc4c50..c137c43eb2ad 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -879,6 +879,26 @@ int page_referenced(struct page *page,
return pra.referenced;
}

+/* Must be called with pinned_dma_lock held. */
+static void wait_for_dma_pinned_to_clear(struct page *page)
+{
+ struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
+
+ while (PageDmaPinnedFlags(page)) {
+ spin_unlock(zone_gup_lock(zone));
+
+ schedule();
+
+ spin_lock(zone_gup_lock(zone));
+ }
+}
+
+struct page_mkclean_info {
+ int cleaned;
+ int skipped;
+ bool skip_pinned_pages;
+};
+
static bool page_mkclean_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, void *arg)
{
@@ -889,7 +909,24 @@ static bool page_mkclean_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
.flags = PVMW_SYNC,
};
unsigned long start = address, end;
- int *cleaned = arg;
+ struct page_mkclean_info *mki = (struct page_mkclean_info *)arg;
+ bool is_dma_pinned;
+ struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
+
+ /* Serialize with get_user_pages: */
+ spin_lock(zone_gup_lock(zone));
+ is_dma_pinned = PageDmaPinned(page);
+
+ if (is_dma_pinned) {
+ if (mki->skip_pinned_pages) {
+ spin_unlock(zone_gup_lock(zone));
+ mki->skipped++;
+ return false;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* Unlock while doing mmu notifier callbacks */
+ spin_unlock(zone_gup_lock(zone));

/*
* We have to assume the worse case ie pmd for invalidation. Note that
@@ -898,6 +935,10 @@ static bool page_mkclean_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
end = min(vma->vm_end, start + (PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page)));
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(vma->vm_mm, start, end);

+ spin_lock(zone_gup_lock(zone));
+
+ wait_for_dma_pinned_to_clear(page);
+
while (page_vma_mapped_walk(&pvmw)) {
unsigned long cstart;
int ret = 0;
@@ -945,9 +986,11 @@ static bool page_mkclean_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.rst
*/
if (ret)
- (*cleaned)++;
+ (mki->cleaned)++;
}

+ spin_unlock(zone_gup_lock(zone));
+
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(vma->vm_mm, start, end);

return true;
@@ -961,12 +1004,17 @@ static bool invalid_mkclean_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, void *arg)
return true;
}

-int page_mkclean(struct page *page)
+int page_mkclean(struct page *page, bool skip_pinned_pages)
{
- int cleaned = 0;
+ struct page_mkclean_info mki = {
+ .cleaned = 0,
+ .skipped = 0,
+ .skip_pinned_pages = skip_pinned_pages
+ };
+
struct address_space *mapping;
struct rmap_walk_control rwc = {
- .arg = (void *)&cleaned,
+ .arg = (void *)&mki,
.rmap_one = page_mkclean_one,
.invalid_vma = invalid_mkclean_vma,
};
@@ -982,7 +1030,7 @@ int page_mkclean(struct page *page)

rmap_walk(page, &rwc);

- return cleaned;
+ return mki.cleaned && !mki.skipped;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(page_mkclean);

@@ -1346,6 +1394,7 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
bool ret = true;
unsigned long start = address, end;
enum ttu_flags flags = (enum ttu_flags)arg;
+ struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);

/* munlock has nothing to gain from examining un-locked vmas */
if ((flags & TTU_MUNLOCK) && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED))
@@ -1360,6 +1409,16 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
flags & TTU_SPLIT_FREEZE, page);
}

+ /* Serialize with get_user_pages: */
+ spin_lock(zone_gup_lock(zone));
+
+ if (PageDmaPinned(page)) {
+ spin_unlock(zone_gup_lock(zone));
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ spin_unlock(zone_gup_lock(zone));
+
/*
* We have to assume the worse case ie pmd for invalidation. Note that
* the page can not be free in this function as call of try_to_unmap()
diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 1d2fb2dca96f..61e73d0d8777 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -852,6 +852,7 @@ void pagecache_isize_extended(struct inode *inode, loff_t from, loff_t to)
loff_t rounded_from;
struct page *page;
pgoff_t index;
+ bool skip_pinned_pages = false;

WARN_ON(to > inode->i_size);

@@ -871,7 +872,7 @@ void pagecache_isize_extended(struct inode *inode, loff_t from, loff_t to)
* See clear_page_dirty_for_io() for details why set_page_dirty()
* is needed.
*/
- if (page_mkclean(page))
+ if (page_mkclean(page, skip_pinned_pages))
set_page_dirty(page);
unlock_page(page);
put_page(page);
--
2.18.0