[PATCH] mremap: enforce rmap src/dst vma ordering in case of vma_merge succeeding in copy_vma

[Andrea Arcangeli]

migrate was doing a rmap_walk with speculative lock-less access on
pagetables. That could lead it to not serialize properly against
mremap PT locks. But a second problem remains in the order of vmas in
the same_anon_vma list used by the rmap_walk.

If vma_merge would succeed in copy_vma, the src vma could be placed
after the dst vma in the same_anon_vma list. That could still lead
migrate to miss some pte.

This patch adds a anon_vma_order_tail() function to force the dst vma
at the end of the list before mremap starts to solve the problem.

If the mremap is very large and there are a lots of parents or childs
sharing the anon_vma root lock, this should still scale better than
taking the anon_vma root lock around every pte copy practically for
the whole duration of mremap.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/rmap.h |    1 +
 mm/mmap.c            |    8 ++++++++
 mm/rmap.c            |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h
index 2148b12..45eb098 100644
--- a/include/linux/rmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/rmap.h
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ void anon_vma_init(void);	/* create anon_vma_cachep */
 int  anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *);
 void unlink_anon_vmas(struct vm_area_struct *);
 int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
+void anon_vma_order_tail(struct vm_area_struct *);
 int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
 void __anon_vma_link(struct vm_area_struct *);
 
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index a65efd4..a5858dc 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2339,7 +2339,15 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **vmap,
 		 */
 		if (vma_start >= new_vma->vm_start &&
 		    vma_start < new_vma->vm_end)
+			/*
+			 * No need to call anon_vma_order_tail() in
+			 * this case because the same PT lock will
+			 * serialize the rmap_walk against both src
+			 * and dst vmas.
+			 */
 			*vmap = new_vma;
+		else
+			anon_vma_order_tail(new_vma);
 	} else {
 		new_vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (new_vma) {
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 8005080..6dbc165 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -272,6 +272,50 @@ int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Some rmap walk that needs to find all ptes/hugepmds without false
+ * negatives (like migrate and split_huge_page) running concurrent
+ * with operations that copy or move pagetables (like mremap() and
+ * fork()) to be safe depends the anon_vma "same_anon_vma" list to be
+ * in a certain order: the dst_vma must be placed after the src_vma in
+ * the list. This is always guaranteed by fork() but mremap() needs to
+ * call this function to enforce it in case the dst_vma isn't newly
+ * allocated and chained with the anon_vma_clone() function but just
+ * an extension of a pre-existing vma through vma_merge.
+ *
+ * NOTE: the same_anon_vma list can still be changed by other
+ * processes while mremap runs because mremap doesn't hold the
+ * anon_vma mutex to prevent modifications to the list while it
+ * runs. All we need to enforce is that the relative order of this
+ * process vmas isn't changing (we don't care about other vmas
+ * order). Each vma corresponds to an anon_vma_chain structure so
+ * there's no risk that other processes calling anon_vma_order_tail()
+ * and changing the same_anon_vma list under mremap() will screw with
+ * the relative order of this process vmas in the list, because we
+ * won't alter the order of any vma that isn't belonging to this
+ * process. And there can't be another anon_vma_order_tail running
+ * concurrently with mremap() coming from this process because we hold
+ * the mmap_sem for the whole mremap(). fork() ordering dependency
+ * also shouldn't be affected because we only care that the parent
+ * vmas are placed in the list before the child vmas and
+ * anon_vma_order_tail won't reorder vmas from either the fork parent
+ * or child.
+ */
+void anon_vma_order_tail(struct vm_area_struct *dst)
+{
+	struct anon_vma_chain *pavc;
+	struct anon_vma *root = NULL;
+
+	list_for_each_entry_reverse(pavc, &dst->anon_vma_chain, same_vma) {
+		struct anon_vma *anon_vma = pavc->anon_vma;
+		VM_BUG_ON(pavc->vma != dst);
+		root = lock_anon_vma_root(root, anon_vma);
+		list_del(&pavc->same_anon_vma);
+		list_add_tail(&pavc->same_anon_vma, &anon_vma->head);
+	}
+	unlock_anon_vma_root(root);
+}
+
+/*
  * Attach vma to its own anon_vma, as well as to the anon_vmas that
  * the corresponding VMA in the parent process is attached to.
  * Returns 0 on success, non-zero on failure.
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