Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm/mremap: use pmd_addr_end to calculate next in move_page_tables()

From: Wei Yang
Date: Tue Jan 28 2020 - 19:28:55 EST


On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 02:35:25AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>29.01.2020 02:29, Wei Yang ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 06:59:48PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>> 28.01.2020 03:43, Wei Yang ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>>>> On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 05:47:57PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>>>> 18.01.2020 02:22, Wei Yang ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>>>>>> Use the general helper instead of do it by hand.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> mm/mremap.c | 7 ++-----
>>>>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
>>>>>> index c2af8ba4ba43..a258914f3ee1 100644
>>>>>> --- a/mm/mremap.c
>>>>>> +++ b/mm/mremap.c
>>>>>> @@ -253,11 +253,8 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> for (; old_addr < old_end; old_addr += extent, new_addr += extent) {
>>>>>> cond_resched();
>>>>>> - next = (old_addr + PMD_SIZE) & PMD_MASK;
>>>>>> - /* even if next overflowed, extent below will be ok */
>>>>>> + next = pmd_addr_end(old_addr, old_end);
>>>>>> extent = next - old_addr;
>>>>>> - if (extent > old_end - old_addr)
>>>>>> - extent = old_end - old_addr;
>>>>>> old_pmd = get_old_pmd(vma->vm_mm, old_addr);
>>>>>> if (!old_pmd)
>>>>>> continue;
>>>>>> @@ -301,7 +298,7 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> if (pte_alloc(new_vma->vm_mm, new_pmd))
>>>>>> break;
>>>>>> - next = (new_addr + PMD_SIZE) & PMD_MASK;
>>>>>> + next = pmd_addr_end(new_addr, new_addr + len);
>>>>>> if (extent > next - new_addr)
>>>>>> extent = next - new_addr;
>>>>>> move_ptes(vma, old_pmd, old_addr, old_addr + extent, new_vma,
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello Wei,
>>>>>
>>>>> Starting with next-20200122, I'm seeing the following in KMSG on NVIDIA
>>>>> Tegra (ARM32):
>>>>>
>>>>> BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:(ptrval) type:MM_ANONPAGES val:190
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Would you mind letting me know which case you are testing?
>>>
>>> Nothing special, systemd starts to fall apart during boot.
>>>
>>>> Or the special thing is 32-bit platform?
>>> I have a limited knowledge about mm/, so can't provide detailed explanation.
>>>
>>> Please take a look at this:
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.5/source/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h#L210
>>>
>>> [2]
>>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.5/source/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h#L549
>>>
>>> [3]
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c0ba10b512eb2e2a3888b6e6cc0e089f5e7a191b
>>
>> Thanks, I see the difference here.
>>
>> If this is the case, we can't use pmd_addr_end() to simplify the calculation.
>> This changes the behavior.
>>
>> I would prepare another patch set to fix this. Would you mind helping me
>> verify on your platform?
>
>Sure, please feel free to CC me on that patch.

Thanks, you are in the cc list of v2.

Hope this one works fine on ARM.

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Wei Yang
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