Re: [PATCH V2] arm64: hwpoison: add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON[_LARGE] handling

[Steve Capper]

Hi,
Sorry for replying to this thread late.

On 15 March 2017 at 11:19, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Punit,
>
> Adding David Woods since he seems to have added the arm64-specific
> huge_pte_offset() code.
>
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 05:46:36PM +0000, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> From d5ad3f428e629c80b0f93f2bbdf99b4cae28c9bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:16:29 +0000
>> Subject: [PATCH] arm64: hugetlb: Fix huge_pte_offset to return poisoned pmd
>>
>> When memory failure is enabled, a poisoned hugepage PMD is marked as a
>> swap entry. As pmd_present() only checks for VALID and PROT_NONE
>> bits (turned off for swap entries), it causues huge_pte_offset() to
>> return NULL for poisoned PMDs.
>>
>> This behaviour of huge_pte_offset() leads to the error such as below
>> when munmap is called on poisoned hugepages.
>>
>> [  344.165544] mm/pgtable-generic.c:33: bad pmd 000000083af00074.
>>
>> Fix huge_pte_offset() to return the poisoned PMD which is then
>> appropriately handled by the generic layer code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 11 ++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
>> index e25584d72396..9263f206353c 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
>> @@ -150,8 +150,17 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_offset(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
>>         if (pud_huge(*pud))
>>                 return (pte_t *)pud;
>>         pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
>> +
>> +       /*
>> +        * In case of HW Poisoning, a hugepage pmd can contain
>> +        * poisoned entries. Poisoned entries are marked as swap
>> +        * entries.
>> +        *
>> +        * For pmds that are not present, check to see if it could be
>> +        * a swap entry (!present and !none) before giving up.
>> +        */
>>         if (!pmd_present(*pmd))
>> -               return NULL;
>> +               return !pmd_none(*pmd) ? (pte_t *)pmd : NULL;
>
> I'm not sure we need to return NULL here when pmd_none(). If we use
> hugetlb at the pmd level we don't need to allocate a pmd page but just
> fall back to hugetlb_no_page() in hugetlb_fault(). The problem is we
> can't tell what kind of huge page we have when calling
> huge_pte_offset(), so we always rely on huge_pte_alloc(). But there are
> places where huge_pte_none() is checked explicitly and we would never
> return it from huge_pte_get().
>
> Can we improve the generic code to pass the huge page size to
> huge_pte_offset()? Otherwise we make all kind of assumptions/guesses in
> the arch code.

We'll certainly need the huge page size as we are unable to
differentiate between pmd and contiguous pmd for invalid entries too;
and we'll need to return a pointer to the "head" pte_t.

>
>>
>>         if (pte_cont(pmd_pte(*pmd))) {
>>                 pmd = pmd_offset(
>
> Given that we can have huge pages at the pud level, we should address
> that as well. The generic huge_pte_offset() doesn't need to since it
> assumes huge pages at the pmd level only. If a pud is not present, you
> can't dereference it to find the pmd, hence returning NULL.
>
> Apart from hw poisoning, I think another use-case for non-present
> pmd/pud entries is is_hugetlb_entry_migration() (see hugetlb_fault()),
> so we need to fix this either way.
>
> We have a discrepancy between the pud_present and pmd_present. The
> latter was modified to fall back on pte_present because of THP which
> does not support puds (last time I checked). So if a pud is poisoned,
> huge_pte_offset thinks it is present and will try to get the pmd it
> points to.
>
> I think we can leave the pud_present() unchanged but fix the
> huge_pte_offset() to check for pud_table() before dereferencing,
> otherwise returning the actual value. And we need to figure out which
> huge page size we have when the pud/pmd is 0.

I don't understand the suggestions for puds, as they won't be contiguous?

Cheers,
--
Steve