[PATCH 4.11 63/78] mm: numa: avoid waiting on freed migrated pages

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-19T15:21:29Z

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

commit 3c226c637b69104f6b9f1c6ec5b08d7b741b3229 upstream.

In do_huge_pmd_numa_page(), we attempt to handle a migrating thp pmd by
waiting until the pmd is unlocked before we return and retry. However,
we can race with migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page():

// do_huge_pmd_numa_page // migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page()
// Holds 0 refs on page // Holds 2 refs on page

vmf->ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd);
/* ... */
if (pmd_trans_migrating(*vmf->pmd)) {
page = pmd_page(*vmf->pmd);
spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pmd);
if (page_count(page) != 2)) {
/* roll back */
}
/* ... */
mlock_migrate_page(new_page, page);
/* ... */
spin_unlock(ptl);
put_page(page);
put_page(page); // page freed here
wait_on_page_locked(page);
goto out;
}

This can result in the freed page having its waiters flag set
unexpectedly, which trips the PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP checks in the
page alloc/free functions. This has been observed on arm64 KVM guests.

We can avoid this by having do_huge_pmd_numa_page() take a reference on
the page before dropping the pmd lock, mirroring what we do in
__migration_entry_wait().

When we hit the race, migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page() will see the
reference and abort the migration, as it may do today in other cases.

Fixes: b8916634b77bffb2 ("mm: Prevent parallel splits during THP migration")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497349722-6731-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
mm/huge_memory.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1412,8 +1412,11 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct vm_faul
*/
if (unlikely(pmd_trans_migrating(*vmf->pmd))) {
page = pmd_page(*vmf->pmd);
+ if (!get_page_unless_zero(page))
+ goto out_unlock;
spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
wait_on_page_locked(page);
+ put_page(page);
goto out;
}

@@ -1445,9 +1448,12 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct vm_faul

/* Migration could have started since the pmd_trans_migrating check */
if (!page_locked) {
+ page_nid = -1;
+ if (!get_page_unless_zero(page))
+ goto out_unlock;
spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
wait_on_page_locked(page);
- page_nid = -1;
+ put_page(page);
goto out;
}