[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] FOLL_NOWAIT and get_user_pages_unlocked

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] FOLL_NOWAIT and get_user_pages_unlocked

[Andrea Arcangeli]

Hello,

KVM is hanging on postcopy live migration.

David tracked it down to commit
ce53053ce378c21e7ffc45241fd67d6ee79daa2b and the problem is pretty
obvious then.

Either we teach get_user_pages_locked/unlocked to handle FOLL_NOWAIT
(so faultin_nopage works right even when the nonblocking pointer is
not NULL) or we need to revert part of commit
ce53053ce378c21e7ffc45241fd67d6ee79daa2b and keep using FOLL_NOWAIT
only as parameter to get_user_pages (which won't ever set nonblocking
pointer to non-NULL). I suppose the former approach is preferred to be
more robust.

Thanks,
Andrea

Andrea Arcangeli (1):
  mm: gup: teach get_user_pages_unlocked to handle FOLL_NOWAIT

 mm/gup.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] mm: gup: teach get_user_pages_unlocked to handle FOLL_NOWAIT

[Andrea Arcangeli]

KVM is hanging during postcopy live migration with userfaultfd because
get_user_pages_unlocked is not capable to handle FOLL_NOWAIT.

Earlier FOLL_NOWAIT was only ever passed to get_user_pages.

Specifically faultin_page (the callee of get_user_pages_unlocked
caller) doesn't know that if FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT was set in the
page fault flags, when VM_FAULT_RETRY is returned, the mmap_sem wasn't
actually released (even if nonblocking is not NULL). So it sets
*nonblocking to zero and the caller won't release the mmap_sem
thinking it was already released, but it wasn't because of
FOLL_NOWAIT.

Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
---
 mm/gup.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 1b46e6e74881..6afae32571ca 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ static int faultin_page(struct task_struct *tsk, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	}
 
 	if (ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-		if (nonblocking)
+		if (nonblocking && !(fault_flags & FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT))
 			*nonblocking = 0;
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
@@ -890,7 +890,10 @@ static __always_inline long __get_user_pages_locked(struct task_struct *tsk,
 				break;
 		}
 		if (*locked) {
-			/* VM_FAULT_RETRY didn't trigger */
+			/*
+			 * VM_FAULT_RETRY didn't trigger or it was a
+			 * FOLL_NOWAIT.
+			 */
 			if (!pages_done)
 				pages_done = ret;
 			break;

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] mm: gup: teach get_user_pages_unlocked to handle FOLL_NOWAIT

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri,  2 Mar 2018 18:43:43 +0100 Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> wrote:

> KVM is hanging during postcopy live migration with userfaultfd because
> get_user_pages_unlocked is not capable to handle FOLL_NOWAIT.
> 
> Earlier FOLL_NOWAIT was only ever passed to get_user_pages.
> 
> Specifically faultin_page (the callee of get_user_pages_unlocked
> caller) doesn't know that if FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT was set in the
> page fault flags, when VM_FAULT_RETRY is returned, the mmap_sem wasn't
> actually released (even if nonblocking is not NULL). So it sets
> *nonblocking to zero and the caller won't release the mmap_sem
> thinking it was already released, but it wasn't because of
> FOLL_NOWAIT.
> 
> Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

I added

Fixes: ce53053ce378c ("kvm: switch get_user_page_nowait() to get_user_pages_unlocked()")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>