Re: [Question] Missing data after DMA read transfer - mm issue with transparent huge page?

[Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin]

Le 05/12/2016 à 03:52 PM, Jerome Glisse a écrit :
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 03:30:24PM +0200, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:
>> Le 05/12/2016 à 11:36 AM, Jerome Glisse a écrit :
>>> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 08:07:59AM +0200, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:
[...]
>>>> With transparent_hugepage=never I can't see the bug anymore.
>>>>
>>> Can you test https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9061351/ with 4.5
>>> (does not apply to 3.10) and without transparent_hugepage=never
>>>
>>> Jérôme
>> Fails with 4.5 + this patch and with 4.5 + this patch + yours
>>
> There must be some bug in your code, we have upstream user that works
> fine with the above combination (see drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c)
> i suspect you might be releasing the page pin too early (put_page()).
In my previous tests, I checked the page before calling put_page and it has already changed.
And I also checked that there is not multiple transfers in a single page at once.
So I doubt it's that.
>
> If you really believe it is bug upstream we would need a dumb kernel
> module that does gup like you do and that shows the issue. Right now
> looking at code (assuming above patches applied) i can't see anything
> that can go wrong with THP.

The issue is that I doubt I'll be able to do that. We have had code running in production for at least a year without the issue showing up and now a single test shows this.
And some tweak to the test (meaning memory footprint in the user space) can make the problem disappear.

Is there a way to track what is happening to the THP? From the looks of it, the refcount are changed behind my back? Would kgdb with watch point work on this?
Is there a less painful way?

Thanks

Nicolas