Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm/mremap: use pmd_addr_end to calculate next in move_page_tables()

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 05:47:57PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 18.01.2020 02:22, Wei Yang ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> > Use the general helper instead of do it by hand.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  mm/mremap.c | 7 ++-----
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
> > index c2af8ba4ba43..a258914f3ee1 100644
> > --- a/mm/mremap.c
> > +++ b/mm/mremap.c
> > @@ -253,11 +253,8 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> >  
> >  	for (; old_addr < old_end; old_addr += extent, new_addr += extent) {
> >  		cond_resched();
> > -		next = (old_addr + PMD_SIZE) & PMD_MASK;
> > -		/* even if next overflowed, extent below will be ok */
> > +		next = pmd_addr_end(old_addr, old_end);
> >  		extent = next - old_addr;
> > -		if (extent > old_end - old_addr)
> > -			extent = old_end - old_addr;
> >  		old_pmd = get_old_pmd(vma->vm_mm, old_addr);
> >  		if (!old_pmd)
> >  			continue;
> > @@ -301,7 +298,7 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> >  
> >  		if (pte_alloc(new_vma->vm_mm, new_pmd))
> >  			break;
> > -		next = (new_addr + PMD_SIZE) & PMD_MASK;
> > +		next = pmd_addr_end(new_addr, new_addr + len);
> >  		if (extent > next - new_addr)
> >  			extent = next - new_addr;
> >  		move_ptes(vma, old_pmd, old_addr, old_addr + extent, new_vma,
> > 
> 
> Hello Wei,
> 
> Starting with next-20200122, I'm seeing the following in KMSG on NVIDIA
> Tegra (ARM32):
> 
>   BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:(ptrval) type:MM_ANONPAGES val:190
> 
> and eventually kernel hangs.
> 
> Git's bisection points to this patch and reverting it helps. Please fix,
> thanks in advance.

The above is definitely wrong - pXX_addr_end() are designed to be used
with an address index within the pXX table table and the address index
of either the last entry in the same pXX table or the beginning of the
_next_ pXX table.  Arbitary end address indicies are not allowed.

When page tables are "rolled up" when levels don't exist, it is common
practice for these macros to just return their end address index.
Hence, if they are used with arbitary end address indicies, then the
iteration will fail.

The only way to do this is:

	next = pmd_addr_end(old_addr,
			pud_addr_end(old_addr,
				p4d_addr_end(old_addr,
					pgd_addr_end(old_addr, old_end))));

which gives pmd_addr_end() (and each of the intermediate pXX_addr_end())
the correct end argument.  However, that's a more complex and verbose,
and likely less efficient than the current code.

I'd suggest that there's nothing to "fix" in the v5.5 code wrt this,
and trying to "clean it up" will just result in less efficient or
broken code.

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