[064/126] hugetlbfs: add swap entry check in follow_hugetlb_page()

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue May 07 2013 - 00:29:34 EST


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

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From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 9cc3a5bd40067b9a0fbd49199d0780463fc2140f ]

With applying the previous patch "hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in
initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB)" to reenable hugepage coredump, if a memory
error happens on a hugepage and the affected processes try to access the
error hugepage, we hit VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) <= 0) in
get_page().

The reason for this bug is that coredump-related code doesn't recognise
"hugepage hwpoison entry" with which a pmd entry is replaced when a memory
error occurs on a hugepage.

In other words, physical address information is stored in different bit
layout between hugepage hwpoison entry and pmd entry, so
follow_hugetlb_page() which is called in get_dump_page() returns a wrong
page from a given address.

The expected behavior is like this:

absent is_swap_pte FOLL_DUMP Expected behavior
-------------------------------------------------------------------
true false false hugetlb_fault
false true false hugetlb_fault
false false false return page
true false true skip page (to avoid allocation)
false true true hugetlb_fault
false false true return page

With this patch, we can call hugetlb_fault() and take proper actions (we
wait for migration entries, fail with VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE for
hwpoisoned entries,) and as the result we can dump all hugepages except
for hwpoisoned ones.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.34+?]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 651d1ab..0bf06e9 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2963,7 +2963,17 @@ int follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
break;
}

- if (absent ||
+ /*
+ * We need call hugetlb_fault for both hugepages under migration
+ * (in which case hugetlb_fault waits for the migration,) and
+ * hwpoisoned hugepages (in which case we need to prevent the
+ * caller from accessing to them.) In order to do this, we use
+ * here is_swap_pte instead of is_hugetlb_entry_migration and
+ * is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned. This is because it simply covers
+ * both cases, and because we can't follow correct pages
+ * directly from any kind of swap entries.
+ */
+ if (absent || is_swap_pte(huge_ptep_get(pte)) ||
((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_write(huge_ptep_get(pte)))) {
int ret;

--
1.7.10.4


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