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Re: get_zone_device_page() in get_page() and page_cache_get_speculative()

From Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: get_zone_device_page() in get_page() and page_cache_get_speculative()
Date 2017-04-24 19:30 +0200
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On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:46:51PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:52 AM, tip-bot for Kirill A. Shutemov
>> <tipbot@zytor.com> wrote:
>> > Commit-ID:  2947ba054a4dabbd82848728d765346886050029
>> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/2947ba054a4dabbd82848728d765346886050029
>> > Author:     Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
>> > AuthorDate: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:39:06 +0300
>> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
>> > CommitDate: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:48:03 +0100
>> >
>> > x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic get_user_page_fast() implementation
>> >
>> > This patch provides all required callbacks required by the generic
>> > get_user_pages_fast() code and switches x86 over - and removes
>> > the platform specific implementation.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
>> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>> > Cc: Aneesh Kumar K . V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
>> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
>> > Cc: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
>> > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
>> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
>> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>> > Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
>> > Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
>> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>> > Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
>> > Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
>> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170316213906.89528-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
>> > [ Minor readability edits. ]
>> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
>>
>> I'm still trying to spot the bug, but bisect points to this patch as
>> the point at which my unit tests start failing with the following
>> signature:
>>
>> [   35.423841] WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 245 at lib/percpu-refcount.c:155
>> percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_rcu+0x1f5/0x200
>
> Okay, I've tracked it down. The issue is triggered by replacment
> get_page() with page_cache_get_speculative().
>
> page_cache_get_speculative() doesn't have get_zone_device_page(). :-|
>
> And I think it's your bug, Dan: it's wrong to have
> get_/put_zone_device_page() in get_/put_page(). I must be handled by
> page_ref_* machinery to catch all cases where we manipulate with page
> refcount.

The page_ref conversion landed in 4.6 *after* the ZONE_DEVICE
implementation that landed in 4.5, so there was a missed conversion of
the zone-device reference counting to page_ref.

> Back to the big picture:
>
> I hate that we need to have such additional code in page refcount
> primitives. I worked hard to remove compound page ugliness from there and
> now zone_device creeping in...
>
> Is it the only option?

Not sure, I need to spend some time to understand what page_ref means
to ZONE_DEVICE.

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Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic  get_user_page_fast() implementation Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-20 23:50 +0200
  Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic  get_user_page_fast() implementation "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-04-21 16:20 +0200
    Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic  get_user_page_fast() implementation Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-21 21:40 +0200
      [PATCH] Revert "x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic  get_user_page_fast() implementation" Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-04-23 12:00 +0200
  get_zone_device_page() in get_page() and page_cache_get_speculative() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-04-24 01:40 +0200
    Re: get_zone_device_page() in get_page() and page_cache_get_speculative() Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-24 19:30 +0200
      Re: get_zone_device_page() in get_page() and  page_cache_get_speculative() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-04-24 19:40 +0200
        Re: get_zone_device_page() in get_page() and page_cache_get_speculative() Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-24 19:50 +0200
          Re: get_zone_device_page() in get_page() and  page_cache_get_speculative() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-04-24 20:10 +0200
            Re: get_zone_device_page() in get_page() and  page_cache_get_speculative() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2017-04-24 20:30 +0200
              Re: get_zone_device_page() in get_page() and page_cache_get_speculative() Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-24 20:50 +0200
                Re: get_zone_device_page() in get_page() and  page_cache_get_speculative() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2017-04-25 15:30 +0200
                Re: get_zone_device_page() in get_page() and page_cache_get_speculative() Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-25 18:50 +0200
    [PATCH] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-27 03:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-04-27 10:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-04-28 08:40 +0200
          [PATCH] mm, zone_device: Replace {get, put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2017-04-28 10:20 +0200
          [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-28 19:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-04-28 19:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-28 19:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-04-28 20:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-28 21:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-04-28 21:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-28 21:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-04-28 21:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-04-29 12:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-05-01 01:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-05-01 03:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-05-01 04:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-05-01 04:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-05-01 05:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-05-01 12:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-05-01 16:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-05-01 22:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-05-01 22:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-05-02 13:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-05-02 15:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-04-29 16:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-05-01 04:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-05-01 09:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] mm, zone_device: replace {get,  put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-05-01 11:40 +0200
            [tip:x86/mm] mm, zone_device: Replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference to fix pmem crash tip-bot for Dan Williams <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-05-01 10:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-27 18:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-04-27 18:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-27 18:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-27 18:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-04-27 18:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm, zone_device: replace {get, put}_zone_device_page()  with a single reference Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-04-27 18:20 +0200

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