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* Regression in v4.0.0-rc1 with Android Binder
@ 2015-02-26 22:04 Amit Pundir
  2015-02-26 23:37 ` Greg KH
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Amit Pundir @ 2015-02-26 22:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: a.ryabinin, dvyukov, kcc, dmitryc, adech.fo, tetra2005, koct9i,
	sasha.levin, cl, iamjoonsoo.kim, dave.hansen, andi, mingo,
	Thomas Gleixner, hpa, penberg, rientjes, gregkh,
	Arve Hjønnevåg, riandrews, Serban Constantinescu,
	John Stultz, Sumit Semwal

Hi,

I ran into series of following binder mmap failures with v4.0.0-rc1:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1971 at mm/vmalloc.c:130
vmap_page_range_noflush+0x119/0x144()
CPU: 0 PID: 1971 Comm: healthd Not tainted 4.0.0-rc1-00399-g7da3fdc-dirty #157
Hardware name: ARM-Versatile Express
[<c001246d>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c000f7f9>] (show_stack+0x11/0x14)
[<c000f7f9>] (show_stack) from [<c049a221>] (dump_stack+0x59/0x7c)
[<c049a221>] (dump_stack) from [<c001cf21>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x55/0x84)
[<c001cf21>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c001cfe3>]
(warn_slowpath_null+0x17/0x1c)
[<c001cfe3>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<c00c66c5>]
(vmap_page_range_noflush+0x119/0x144)
[<c00c66c5>] (vmap_page_range_noflush) from [<c00c716b>] (map_vm_area+0x27/0x48)
[<c00c716b>] (map_vm_area) from [<c038ddaf>]
(binder_update_page_range+0x12f/0x27c)
[<c038ddaf>] (binder_update_page_range) from [<c038e857>]
(binder_mmap+0xbf/0x1ac)
[<c038e857>] (binder_mmap) from [<c00c2dc7>] (mmap_region+0x2eb/0x4d4)
[<c00c2dc7>] (mmap_region) from [<c00c3197>] (do_mmap_pgoff+0x1e7/0x250)
[<c00c3197>] (do_mmap_pgoff) from [<c00b35b5>] (vm_mmap_pgoff+0x45/0x60)
[<c00b35b5>] (vm_mmap_pgoff) from [<c00c1f39>] (SyS_mmap_pgoff+0x5d/0x80)
[<c00c1f39>] (SyS_mmap_pgoff) from [<c000ce81>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x5c)
---[ end trace 48c2c4b9a1349e54 ]---
binder: 1982: binder_alloc_buf failed to map page at f0e00000 in kernel
binder: binder_mmap: 1982 b6bde000-b6cdc000 alloc small buf failed -12


Turned out that the following commit tripped off binder:
----------8<----------
commit 71394fe50146202f2c8d92cf50f5ebc761acf254
Author: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 13 14:40:03 2015 -0800

    mm: vmalloc: add flag preventing guard hole allocation
---------->8----------


Explicitly disabling the vmalloc no guard (VM_NO_GUARD) flag in binder
worked fine for me. So does a fix like this look reasonable enough to
submit?
----------8<----------
--- a/drivers/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
@@ -601,6 +601,7 @@ static int binder_update_page_range(struct
binder_proc *proc, int allocate,
                        goto err_alloc_page_failed;
                }
                tmp_area.addr = page_addr;
+               tmp_area.flags &= ~VM_NO_GUARD;
                tmp_area.size = PAGE_SIZE + PAGE_SIZE /* guard page? */;
                ret = map_vm_area(&tmp_area, PAGE_KERNEL, page);
                if (ret) {
---------->8----------


Regards,
Amit Pundir

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2015-02-26 23:37 ` Greg KH
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2015-02-27  3:01   ` David Rientjes
2015-02-27 16:30 ` [PATCH] android: binder: fix binder mmap failures Andrey Ryabinin
2015-02-27 17:26   ` John Stultz
2015-02-27 17:37     ` Andrey Ryabinin
2015-02-27 17:44 ` [PATCH v2] " Andrey Ryabinin
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