[PATCH RFC 08/10] mm/hugetlb: Make follow_hugetlb_page RCU-safe

[Peter Xu]

RCU makes sure the pte_t* won't go away from under us.  Please refer to the
comment above huge_pte_offset() for more information.

Some small trick is used to release RCU slightly earlier, but that should
be safe and just cleaner (with rich comment in code).

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 85214095fb85..5dc87e4e6780 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -6300,6 +6300,9 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			break;
 		}
 
+		/* For huge_pte_offset() */
+		rcu_read_lock();
+
 		/*
 		 * Some archs (sparc64, sh*) have multiple pte_ts to
 		 * each hugepage.  We have to make sure we get the
@@ -6324,6 +6327,7 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		    !hugetlbfs_pagecache_present(h, vma, vaddr)) {
 			if (pte)
 				spin_unlock(ptl);
+			rcu_read_unlock();
 			remainder = 0;
 			break;
 		}
@@ -6345,6 +6349,8 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
 			if (pte)
 				spin_unlock(ptl);
+			rcu_read_unlock();
+
 			if (flags & FOLL_WRITE)
 				fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
 			else if (unshare)
@@ -6387,6 +6393,19 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			continue;
 		}
 
+		/*
+		 * When reach here, it means the pteval is not absent, so
+		 * anyone who wants to free and invalidate the pgtable page
+		 * (aka, pte*) should need to first unmap the entries which
+		 * relies on the pgtable lock.  Since we're holding it,
+		 * we're safe even without RCU anymore.
+		 *
+		 * We can also just release RCU after each unlock of
+		 * pgtable below, but this is just much cleaner, and also
+		 * smaller critical section.
+		 */
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+
 		pfn_offset = (vaddr & ~huge_page_mask(h)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 		page = pte_page(huge_ptep_get(pte));
 
-- 
2.37.3