Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: move xa forward when run across zombie page

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 10:52:14PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> But I think the tests you've done refute that theory.  I'm all out of
> ideas at the moment.

I have a new idea.  In page_cache_delete_batch(), we don't set the
order of the entry before calling xas_store().  That means we can end
up in a situation where we have an order-2 folio in the page cache,
delete it and end up with a NULL pointer at (say) index 20 and sibling
entries at indices 21-23.  We can come along (potentially much later)
and put an order-0 folio back at index 20.  Now all of indices 20-23
point to the index-20, order-0 folio.  Worse, the xarray node can be
freed with the sibling entries still intact and then be reallocated by
an entirely different xarray.

I don't know if this is going to fix the problem you're seeing.  I can't
quite draw a line from this situation to your symptoms.  I came across
it while auditing all the places which set folio->mapping to NULL.
I did notice a mis-ordering; all the other places first remove the folio
from the xarray before setting folio to NULL, but I have a hard time
connecting that to your symptoms either.

diff --git a/include/linux/xarray.h b/include/linux/xarray.h
index 44dd6d6e01bc..cc1fd1f849a7 100644
--- a/include/linux/xarray.h
+++ b/include/linux/xarray.h
@@ -1617,6 +1617,12 @@ static inline void xas_advance(struct xa_state *xas, unsigned long index)
 	xas->xa_offset = (index >> shift) & XA_CHUNK_MASK;
 }
 
+static inline void xas_adjust_order(struct xa_state *xas, unsigned int order)
+{
+	xas->xa_shift = order - (order % XA_CHUNK_SHIFT);
+	xas->xa_sibs = (1 << (order % XA_CHUNK_SHIFT)) - 1;
+}
+
 /**
  * xas_set_order() - Set up XArray operation state for a multislot entry.
  * @xas: XArray operation state.
@@ -1628,8 +1634,7 @@ static inline void xas_set_order(struct xa_state *xas, unsigned long index,
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_XARRAY_MULTI
 	xas->xa_index = order < BITS_PER_LONG ? (index >> order) << order : 0;
-	xas->xa_shift = order - (order % XA_CHUNK_SHIFT);
-	xas->xa_sibs = (1 << (order % XA_CHUNK_SHIFT)) - 1;
+	xas_adjust_order(xas, order);
 	xas->xa_node = XAS_RESTART;
 #else
 	BUG_ON(order > 0);
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 08341616ae7a..6e3f486131e4 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -305,11 +305,13 @@ static void page_cache_delete_batch(struct address_space *mapping,
 
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(!folio_test_locked(folio));
 
+		if (!folio_test_hugetlb(folio))
+			xas_adjust_order(&xas, folio_order(folio));
+		xas_store(&xas, NULL);
 		folio->mapping = NULL;
 		/* Leave folio->index set: truncation lookup relies on it */
 
 		i++;
-		xas_store(&xas, NULL);
 		total_pages += folio_nr_pages(folio);
 	}
 	mapping->nrpages -= total_pages;