Re: [PATCH 6/9] huge tmpfs: SGP_NOALLOC to stop collapse_file() on race

[Yang Shi]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 1:17 AM Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> khugepaged's collapse_file() currently uses SGP_NOHUGE to tell
> shmem_getpage() not to try allocating a huge page, in the very unlikely
> event that a racing hole-punch removes the swapped or fallocated page as
> soon as i_pages lock is dropped.
>
> We want to consolidate shmem's huge decisions, removing SGP_HUGE and
> SGP_NOHUGE; but cannot quite persuade ourselves that it's okay to regress
> the protection in this case - Yang Shi points out that the huge page
> would remain indefinitely, charged to root instead of the intended memcg.
>
> collapse_file() should not even allocate a small page in this case: why
> proceed if someone is punching a hole?  SGP_READ is almost the right flag
> here, except that it optimizes away from a fallocated page, with NULL to
> tell caller to fill with zeroes (like a hole); whereas collapse_file()'s
> sequence relies on using a cache page.  Add SGP_NOALLOC just for this.
>
> There are too many consecutive "if (page"s there in shmem_getpage_gfp():
> group it better; and fix the outdated "bring it back from swap" comment.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  include/linux/shmem_fs.h |  1 +
>  mm/khugepaged.c          |  2 +-
>  mm/shmem.c               | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------
>  3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
> index 9b7f7ac52351..7d97b15a2f7a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
> @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ extern unsigned long shmem_partial_swap_usage(struct address_space *mapping,
>  /* Flag allocation requirements to shmem_getpage */
>  enum sgp_type {
>         SGP_READ,       /* don't exceed i_size, don't allocate page */
> +       SGP_NOALLOC,    /* similar, but fail on hole or use fallocated page */
>         SGP_CACHE,      /* don't exceed i_size, may allocate page */
>         SGP_NOHUGE,     /* like SGP_CACHE, but no huge pages */
>         SGP_HUGE,       /* like SGP_CACHE, huge pages preferred */
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index b0412be08fa2..045cc579f724 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -1721,7 +1721,7 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
>                                 xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
>                                 /* swap in or instantiate fallocated page */
>                                 if (shmem_getpage(mapping->host, index, &page,
> -                                                 SGP_NOHUGE)) {
> +                                                 SGP_NOALLOC)) {
>                                         result = SCAN_FAIL;
>                                         goto xa_unlocked;
>                                 }
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 740d48ef1eb5..226ac3a911e9 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -1871,26 +1871,31 @@ static int shmem_getpage_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
>                 return error;
>         }
>
> -       if (page)
> +       if (page) {
>                 hindex = page->index;
> -       if (page && sgp == SGP_WRITE)
> -               mark_page_accessed(page);
> -
> -       /* fallocated page? */
> -       if (page && !PageUptodate(page)) {
> +               if (sgp == SGP_WRITE)
> +                       mark_page_accessed(page);
> +               if (PageUptodate(page))
> +                       goto out;
> +               /* fallocated page */
>                 if (sgp != SGP_READ)
>                         goto clear;
>                 unlock_page(page);
>                 put_page(page);
> -               page = NULL;
> -               hindex = index;
>         }
> -       if (page || sgp == SGP_READ)
> -               goto out;
>
>         /*
> -        * Fast cache lookup did not find it:
> -        * bring it back from swap or allocate.
> +        * SGP_READ: succeed on hole, with NULL page, letting caller zero.
> +        * SGP_NOALLOC: fail on hole, with NULL page, letting caller fail.
> +        */
> +       *pagep = NULL;
> +       if (sgp == SGP_READ)
> +               return 0;
> +       if (sgp == SGP_NOALLOC)
> +               return -ENOENT;
> +
> +       /*
> +        * Fast cache lookup and swap lookup did not find it: allocate.
>          */
>
>         if (vma && userfaultfd_missing(vma)) {
> --
> 2.26.2
>