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[PATCH 4.4 031/101] mm: numa: avoid waiting on freed migrated pages

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4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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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 |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1363,8 +1363,11 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_stru
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(pmd_trans_migrating(*pmdp))) {
 		page = pmd_page(*pmdp);
+		if (!get_page_unless_zero(page))
+			goto out_unlock;
 		spin_unlock(ptl);
 		wait_on_page_locked(page);
+		put_page(page);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -1396,8 +1399,11 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_stru
 
 	/* Migration could have started since the pmd_trans_migrating check */
 	if (!page_locked) {
+		if (!get_page_unless_zero(page))
+			goto out_unlock;
 		spin_unlock(ptl);
 		wait_on_page_locked(page);
+		put_page(page);
 		page_nid = -1;
 		goto out;
 	}

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[PATCH 4.4 031/101] mm: numa: avoid waiting on freed migrated pages Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-07-03 15:40 +0200

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