Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] mm: drop VMA lock before waiting for migration

[Alistair Popple]

Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 8:49 AM Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 09:23:20PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
>> > migration_entry_wait does not need VMA lock, therefore it can be
>> > dropped before waiting.
>>
>> Hmm, I'm not sure..
>>
>> Note that we're still dereferencing *vmf->pmd when waiting, while *pmd is
>> on the page table and IIUC only be guaranteed if the vma is still there.
>> If without both mmap / vma lock I don't see what makes sure the pgtable is
>> always there.  E.g. IIUC a race can happen where unmap() runs right after
>> vma_end_read() below but before pmdp_get_lockless() (inside
>> migration_entry_wait()), then pmdp_get_lockless() can read some random
>> things if the pgtable is freed.
>
> That sounds correct. I thought ptl would keep pmd stable but there is
> time between vma_end_read() and spin_lock(ptl) when it can be freed
> from under us. I think it would work if we do vma_end_read() after
> spin_lock(ptl) but that requires code refactoring. I'll probably drop
> this optimization from the patchset for now to keep things simple and
> will get back to it later.

Oh thanks Peter that's a good point. It could be made to work, but agree
it's probably not worth the code refactoring at this point so I'm ok if
the optimisation is dropped for now.

>>
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> >  mm/memory.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
>> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
>> > index 5caaa4c66ea2..bdf46fdc58d6 100644
>> > --- a/mm/memory.c
>> > +++ b/mm/memory.c
>> > @@ -3715,8 +3715,18 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>> >       entry = pte_to_swp_entry(vmf->orig_pte);
>> >       if (unlikely(non_swap_entry(entry))) {
>> >               if (is_migration_entry(entry)) {
>> > -                     migration_entry_wait(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd,
>> > -                                          vmf->address);
>> > +                     /* Save mm in case VMA lock is dropped */
>> > +                     struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
>> > +
>> > +                     if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) {
>> > +                             /*
>> > +                              * No need to hold VMA lock for migration.
>> > +                              * WARNING: vma can't be used after this!
>> > +                              */
>> > +                             vma_end_read(vma);
>> > +                             ret |= VM_FAULT_COMPLETED;
>> > +                     }
>> > +                     migration_entry_wait(mm, vmf->pmd, vmf->address);
>> >               } else if (is_device_exclusive_entry(entry)) {
>> >                       vmf->page = pfn_swap_entry_to_page(entry);
>> >                       ret = remove_device_exclusive_entry(vmf);
>> > --
>> > 2.41.0.178.g377b9f9a00-goog
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Peter Xu
>>