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[PATCH v3 2/4] mm: prevent double decrease of nr_reserved_highatomic

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There is race between page freeing and unreserved highatomic.

 CPU 0				    CPU 1

    free_hot_cold_page
      mt = get_pfnblock_migratetype
      set_pcppage_migratetype(page, mt)
    				    unreserve_highatomic_pageblock
    				    spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock)
    				    move_freepages_block
    				    set_pageblock_migratetype(page)
    				    spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock)
      free_pcppages_bulk
        __free_one_page(mt) <- mt is stale

By above race, a page on CPU 0 could go non-highorderatomic free list
since the pageblock's type is changed. By that, unreserve logic of
highorderatomic can decrease reserved count on a same pageblock
severak times and then it will make mismatch between
nr_reserved_highatomic and the number of reserved pageblock.

So, this patch verifies whether the pageblock is highatomic or not
and decrease the count only if the pageblock is highatomic.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 79853b258211..18808f392718 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2106,13 +2106,25 @@ static void unreserve_highatomic_pageblock(const struct alloc_context *ac)
 				continue;
 
 			/*
-			 * It should never happen but changes to locking could
-			 * inadvertently allow a per-cpu drain to add pages
-			 * to MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC while unreserving so be safe
-			 * and watch for underflows.
+			 * In page freeing path, migratetype change is racy so
+			 * we can counter several free pages in a pageblock
+			 * in this loop althoug we changed the pageblock type
+			 * from highatomic to ac->migratetype. So we should
+			 * adjust the count once.
 			 */
-			zone->nr_reserved_highatomic -= min(pageblock_nr_pages,
-				zone->nr_reserved_highatomic);
+			if (get_pageblock_migratetype(page) ==
+							MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC) {
+				/*
+				 * It should never happen but changes to
+				 * locking could inadvertently allow a per-cpu
+				 * drain to add pages to MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC
+				 * while unreserving so be safe and watch for
+				 * underflows.
+				 */
+				zone->nr_reserved_highatomic -= min(
+						pageblock_nr_pages,
+						zone->nr_reserved_highatomic);
+			}
 
 			/*
 			 * Convert to ac->migratetype and avoid the normal
-- 
2.7.4

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[PATCH v3 2/4] mm: prevent double decrease of nr_reserved_highatomic Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2016-10-12 10:10 +0200

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