Re: [PATCH -alternative] mm: hugetlbfs: Close race during teardownof hugetlbfs shared page tables V2 (resend)
From: Larry Woodman
Date: Tue Jul 31 2012 - 22:45:54 EST
On 07/31/2012 04:06 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
On Tue 31-07-12 13:49:21, Larry Woodman wrote:
On 07/31/2012 08:46 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
Fundamentally I think the problem is that we are not correctly detecting
that page table sharing took place during huge_pte_alloc(). This patch is
longer and makes an API change but if I'm right, it addresses the underlying
problem. The first VM_MAYSHARE patch is still necessary but would you mind
testing this on top please?
Hi Mel, yes this does work just fine. It ran for hours without a panic so
I'll Ack this one if you send it to the list.
Hi Larry, thanks for testing! I have a different patch which tries to
address this very same issue. I am not saying it is better or that it
should be merged instead of Mel's one but I would be really happy if you
could give it a try. We can discuss (dis)advantages of both approaches
later.
Thanks!
Hi Michal, the system hung when I tested this patch on top of the
latest 3.5 kernel. I wont have AltSysrq access to the system until
tomorrow AM. I'll retry this kernel and get AltSysrq output and let
you know whats happening in the morning.
Larry
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From 8cbf3bd27125fc0a2a46cd5b1085d9e63f9c01fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Hocko<mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:00:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mm: hugetlbfs: Correctly populate shared pmd
Each page mapped in a processes address space must be correctly
accounted for in _mapcount. Normally the rules for this are
straight-forward but hugetlbfs page table sharing is different.
The page table pages at the PMD level are reference counted while
the mapcount remains the same. If this accounting is wrong, it causes
bugs like this one reported by Larry Woodman
[ 1106.156569] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 1106.161731] kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:135!
[ 1106.166395] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 1106.170975] CPU 22
[ 1106.173115] Modules linked in: bridge stp llc sunrpc binfmt_misc dcdbas microcode pcspkr acpi_pad acpi]
[ 1106.201770]
[ 1106.203426] Pid: 18001, comm: mpitest Tainted: G W 3.3.0+ #4 Dell Inc. PowerEdge R620/07NDJ2
[ 1106.213822] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8112cfed>] [<ffffffff8112cfed>] __delete_from_page_cache+0x15d/0x170
[ 1106.224117] RSP: 0018:ffff880428973b88 EFLAGS: 00010002
[ 1106.230032] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffea0006b80000 RCX: 00000000ffffffb0
[ 1106.237979] RDX: 0000000000016df1 RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: ffff88043ffd9e00
[ 1106.245927] RBP: ffff880428973b98 R08: 0000000000000050 R09: 0000000000000003
[ 1106.253876] R10: 000000000000000d R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880428708150
[ 1106.261826] R13: ffff880428708150 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffea0006b80000
[ 1106.269780] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88042fd60000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 1106.278794] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 1106.285193] CR2: 0000003a1d38c4a8 CR3: 000000000187d000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
[ 1106.293149] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 1106.301097] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 1106.309046] Process mpitest (pid: 18001, threadinfo ffff880428972000, task ffff880428b5cc20)
[ 1106.318447] Stack:
[ 1106.320690] ffffea0006b80000 0000000000000000 ffff880428973bc8 ffffffff8112d040
[ 1106.328958] ffff880428973bc8 00000000000002ab 00000000000002a0 ffff880428973c18
[ 1106.337234] ffff880428973cc8 ffffffff8125b405 ffff880400000001 0000000000000000
[ 1106.345513] Call Trace:
[ 1106.348235] [<ffffffff8112d040>] delete_from_page_cache+0x40/0x80
[ 1106.355128] [<ffffffff8125b405>] truncate_hugepages+0x115/0x1f0
[ 1106.361826] [<ffffffff8125b4f8>] hugetlbfs_evict_inode+0x18/0x30
[ 1106.368615] [<ffffffff811ab1af>] evict+0x9f/0x1b0
[ 1106.373951] [<ffffffff811ab3a3>] iput_final+0xe3/0x1e0
[ 1106.379773] [<ffffffff811ab4de>] iput+0x3e/0x50
[ 1106.384922] [<ffffffff811a8e18>] d_kill+0xf8/0x110
[ 1106.390356] [<ffffffff811a8f12>] dput+0xe2/0x1b0
[ 1106.395595] [<ffffffff81193612>] __fput+0x162/0x240
During fork(), copy_hugetlb_page_range() detects if huge_pte_alloc()
shared page tables with the check dst_pte == src_pte. The logic is if
the PMD page is the same, they must be shared. This assumes that the
sharing is between the parent and child. However, if the sharing is with
a different process entirely then this check fails as in this diagram.
parent
|
------------>pmd
src_pte----------> data page
^
other--------->pmd--------------------|
^
child-----------|
dst_pte
For this situation to occur, it must be possible for Parent and Other
to have faulted and failed to share page tables with each other. This is
possible due to the following style of race.
PROC A PROC B
copy_hugetlb_page_range copy_hugetlb_page_range
src_pte == huge_pte_offset src_pte == huge_pte_offset
!src_pte so no sharing !src_pte so no sharing
(time passes)
hugetlb_fault hugetlb_fault
huge_pte_alloc huge_pte_alloc
huge_pmd_share huge_pmd_share
LOCK(i_mmap_mutex)
find nothing, no sharing
UNLOCK(i_mmap_mutex)
LOCK(i_mmap_mutex)
find nothing, no sharing
UNLOCK(i_mmap_mutex)
pmd_alloc pmd_alloc
LOCK(instantiation_mutex)
fault
UNLOCK(instantiation_mutex)
LOCK(instantiation_mutex)
fault
UNLOCK(instantiation_mutex)
These two processes are not poing to the same data page but are not sharing
page tables because the opportunity was missed. When either process later
forks, the src_pte == dst pte is potentially insufficient. As the check
falls through, the wrong PTE information is copied in (harmless but wrong)
and the mapcount is bumped for a page mapped by a shared page table leading
to the BUG_ON.
This patch addresses the issue by moving pmd_alloc into huge_pmd_share
which guarantees that the shared pud is populated in the same
critical section as pmd. This also means that huge_pte_offset test in
huge_pmd_share is serialized correctly now.
Changelog and race identified by Mel Gorman
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko<mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Larry Woodman<lwoodman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index f6679a7..bb05f79 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static int vma_shareable(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
/*
* search for a shareable pmd page for hugetlb.
*/
-static void huge_pmd_share(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pud_t *pud)
+static pte_t* huge_pmd_share(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pud_t *pud)
{
struct vm_area_struct *vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
struct address_space *mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ static void huge_pmd_share(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pud_t *pud)
struct vm_area_struct *svma;
unsigned long saddr;
pte_t *spte = NULL;
+ pte_t *pte;
if (!vma_shareable(vma, addr))
return;
@@ -96,8 +97,10 @@ static void huge_pmd_share(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pud_t *pud)
else
put_page(virt_to_page(spte));
spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+ pte = pmd_alloc(mm, pud, addr);
out:
mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
+ return pte;
}
/*
@@ -142,8 +145,9 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm,
} else {
BUG_ON(sz != PMD_SIZE);
if (pud_none(*pud))
- huge_pmd_share(mm, addr, pud);
- pte = (pte_t *) pmd_alloc(mm, pud, addr);
+ pte = huge_pmd_share(mm, addr, pud);
+ else
+ pte = (pte_t *) pmd_alloc(mm, pud, addr);
}
}
BUG_ON(pte&& !pte_none(*pte)&& !pte_huge(*pte));
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