Re: [PATCH] mm: thp: fix soft dirty for migration when split

[Peter Xu]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 07:50:52PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 6:34 AM Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 04:46:04PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> > > When splitting a huge migrating PMD, we'll transfer the soft dirty bit
> > > from the huge page to the small pages.  However we're possibly using a
> > > wrong data since when fetching the bit we're using pmd_soft_dirty()
> > > upon a migration entry.  Fix it up.
> >
> > Note that if my understanding is correct about the problem then if
> > without the patch there is chance to lose some of the dirty bits in
> > the migrating pmd pages (on x86_64 we're fetching bit 11 which is part
> > of swap offset instead of bit 2) and it could potentially corrupt the
> > memory of an userspace program which depends on the dirty bit.
> 
> It seems this code is broken in case of pmd_migraion:
> 
> old_pmd = pmdp_invalidate(vma, haddr, pmd);
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
> pmd_migration = is_pmd_migration_entry(old_pmd);
> if (pmd_migration) {
> swp_entry_t entry;
> 
> entry = pmd_to_swp_entry(old_pmd);
> page = pfn_to_page(swp_offset(entry));
> } else
> #endif
> page = pmd_page(old_pmd);
> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(page), page);
> page_ref_add(page, HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1);
> if (pmd_dirty(old_pmd))
> SetPageDirty(page);
> write = pmd_write(old_pmd);
> young = pmd_young(old_pmd);
> soft_dirty = pmd_soft_dirty(old_pmd);
> 
> Not just soft_dirt - all bits (dirty, write, young) have diffrent encoding
> or not present at all for migration entry.

Hi, Konstantin,

Actually I noticed it but I thought it didn't hurt since both
write/young flags are not used at all when applying to the small pages
when pmd_migration==true.  But indeed there's at least an unexpected
side effect of an extra call to SetPageDirty() that I missed.

I'll repost soon.  Thanks!

-- 
Peter Xu