[PATCH v4] mm: fix is_pinnable_page against on cma page

Minchan Kim
2022-05-10T21:17:53Z

Pages on CMA area could have MIGRATE_ISOLATE as well as MIGRATE_CMA
so current is_pinnable_page could miss CMA pages which has MIGRATE_
ISOLATE. It ends up pinning CMA pages as longterm at pin_user_pages
APIs so CMA allocation keep failed until the pin is released.

CPU 0 CPU 1 - Task B

cma_alloc
alloc_contig_range
pin_user_pages_fast(FOLL_LONGTERM)
change pageblock as MIGRATE_ISOLATE
internal_get_user_pages_fast
lockless_pages_from_mm
gup_pte_range
try_grab_folio
is_pinnable_page
return true;
So, pinned the page successfully.
page migration failure with pinned page
..
.. After 30 sec
unpin_user_page(page)

CMA allocation succeeded after 30 sec.

The CMA allocation path protects the migration type change race
using zone->lock but what GUP path need to know is just whether the
page is on CMA area or not rather than exact migration type.
Thus, we don't need zone->lock but just checks migration type in
either of (MIGRATE_ISOLATE and MIGRATE_CMA).

Adding the MIGRATE_ISOLATE check in is_pinnable_page could cause
rejecting of pinning pages on MIGRATE_ISOLATE pageblocks even
though it's neither CMA nor movable zone if the page is temporarily
unmovable. However, such a migration failure by unexpected temporal
refcount holding is general issue, not only come from MIGRATE_ISOLATE
and the MIGRATE_ISOLATE is also transient state like other temporal
elevated refcount problem.

Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
---
* from v3 - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220509153430.4125710-1-minchan@kernel.org/
* Fix typo and adding more description - akpm

* from v2 - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220505064429.2818496-1-minchan@kernel.org/
* Use __READ_ONCE instead of volatile - akpm

* from v1 - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220502173558.2510641-1-minchan@kernel.org/
* fix build warning - lkp
* fix refetching issue of migration type
* add side effect on !ZONE_MOVABLE and !MIGRATE_CMA in description - david

include/linux/mm.h | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 6acca5cecbc5..cbf79eb790e0 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1625,8 +1625,19 @@ static inline bool page_needs_cow_for_dma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
static inline bool is_pinnable_page(struct page *page)
{
- return !(is_zone_movable_page(page) || is_migrate_cma_page(page)) ||
- is_zero_pfn(page_to_pfn(page));
+#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
+ /*
+ * use volatile to use local variable mt instead of
+ * refetching mt value.
+ */
+ int __mt = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);
+ int mt = __READ_ONCE(__mt);
+
+ if (mt == MIGRATE_CMA || mt == MIGRATE_ISOLATE)
+ return false;
+#endif
+
+ return !(is_zone_movable_page(page) || is_zero_pfn(page_to_pfn(page)));
}
#else
static inline bool is_pinnable_page(struct page *page)
--
2.36.0.512.ge40c2bad7a-goog