During Numa scanning make sure only relevant vmas of the tasks are
scanned.
Before:
All the tasks of a process participate in scanning the vma even if they
do not access vma in it's lifespan.
Now:
Except cases of first few unconditional scans, if a process do
not touch vma (exluding false positive cases of PID collisions)
tasks no longer scan all vma
Logic used:
1) 6 bits of PID used to mark active bit in vma numab status during
fault to remember PIDs accessing vma. (Thanks Mel)
2) Subsequently in scan path, vma scanning is skipped if current PID
had not accessed vma.
3) First two times we do allow unconditional scan to preserve earlier
behaviour of scanning.
Acknowledgement to Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> for initial patch to
store pid information and Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> (Usage of
test and set bit)
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/092f03105c7c1d3450f4636b1ea350407f07640e.1677672277.git.raghavendra.kt@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Disha Talreja <dishaa.talreja@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When vma->anon_vma is not set, page fault handler will set it by either
reusing anon_vma of an adjacent VMA if VMAs are compatible or by
allocating a new one. find_mergeable_anon_vma() walks VMA tree to find a
compatible adjacent VMA and that requires not only the faulting VMA to be
stable but also the tree structure and other VMAs inside that tree.
Therefore locking just the faulting VMA is not enough for this search.
Fall back to taking mmap_lock when vma->anon_vma is not set. This
situation happens only on the first page fault and should not affect
overall performance.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-25-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce lock_vma_under_rcu function to lookup and lock a VMA during page
fault handling. When VMA is not found, can't be locked or changes after
being locked, the function returns NULL. The lookup is performed under
RCU protection to prevent the found VMA from being destroyed before the
VMA lock is acquired. VMA lock statistics are updated according to the
results. For now only anonymous VMAs can be searched this way. In other
cases the function returns NULL.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-24-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Normally free_pgtables needs to lock affected VMAs except for the case
when VMAs were isolated under VMA write-lock. munmap() does just that,
isolating while holding appropriate locks and then downgrading mmap_lock
and dropping per-VMA locks before freeing page tables. Add a parameter to
free_pgtables for such scenario.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230227173632.3292573-20-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Refactor do_fault_around()"
Refactor do_fault_around() to avoid bitwise tricks and rather difficult to
follow logic. Additionally, prefer fault_around_pages to
fault_around_bytes as the operations are performed at a base page
granularity.
This patch (of 2):
The existing logic is confusing and fails to abstract a number of bitwise
tricks.
Use ALIGN_DOWN() to perform alignment, pte_index() to obtain a PTE index
and represent the address range using PTE offsets, which naturally make it
clear that the operation is intended to occur within only a single PTE and
prevent spanning of more than one page table.
We rely on the fact that fault_around_bytes will always be page-aligned,
at least one page in size, a power of two and that it will not exceed
PAGE_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PTE in size (i.e. the address space mapped by a
PTE). These are all guaranteed by fault_around_bytes_set().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1679089214.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d125db1c3665a63b80cea29d56407825482e2262.1679089214.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm/uffd: Add feature bit UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED", v4.
The new feature bit makes anonymous memory acts the same as file memory on
userfaultfd-wp in that it'll also wr-protect none ptes.
It can be useful in two cases:
(1) Uffd-wp app that needs to wr-protect none ptes like QEMU snapshot,
so pre-fault can be replaced by enabling this flag and speed up
protections
(2) It helps to implement async uffd-wp mode that Muhammad is working on [1]
It's debatable whether this is the most ideal solution because with the
new feature bit set, wr-protect none pte needs to pre-populate the
pgtables to the last level (PAGE_SIZE). But it seems fine so far to
service either purpose above, so we can leave optimizations for later.
The series brings pte markers to anonymous memory too. There's some
change in the common mm code path in the 1st patch, great to have some eye
looking at it, but hopefully they're still relatively straightforward.
This patch (of 2):
This is a new feature that controls how uffd-wp handles none ptes. When
it's set, the kernel will handle anonymous memory the same way as file
memory, by allowing the user to wr-protect unpopulated ptes.
File memories handles none ptes consistently by allowing wr-protecting of
none ptes because of the unawareness of page cache being exist or not.
For anonymous it was not as persistent because we used to assume that we
don't need protections on none ptes or known zero pages.
One use case of such a feature bit was VM live snapshot, where if without
wr-protecting empty ptes the snapshot can contain random rubbish in the
holes of the anonymous memory, which can cause misbehave of the guest when
the guest OS assumes the pages should be all zeros.
QEMU worked it around by pre-populate the section with reads to fill in
zero page entries before starting the whole snapshot process [1].
Recently there's another need raised on using userfaultfd wr-protect for
detecting dirty pages (to replace soft-dirty in some cases) [2]. In that
case if without being able to wr-protect none ptes by default, the dirty
info can get lost, since we cannot treat every none pte to be dirty (the
current design is identify a page dirty based on uffd-wp bit being
cleared).
In general, we want to be able to wr-protect empty ptes too even for
anonymous.
This patch implements UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED so that it'll make
uffd-wp handling on none ptes being consistent no matter what the memory
type is underneath. It doesn't have any impact on file memories so far
because we already have pte markers taking care of that. So it only
affects anonymous.
The feature bit is by default off, so the old behavior will be maintained.
Sometimes it may be wanted because the wr-protect of none ptes will
contain overheads not only during UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT (by applying pte
markers to anonymous), but also on creating the pgtables to store the pte
markers. So there's potentially less chance of using thp on the first
fault for a none pmd or larger than a pmd.
The major implementation part is teaching the whole kernel to understand
pte markers even for anonymously mapped ranges, meanwhile allowing the
UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT ioctl to apply pte markers for anonymous too when the
new feature bit is set.
Note that even if the patch subject starts with mm/uffd, there're a few
small refactors to major mm path of handling anonymous page faults. But
they should be straightforward.
With WP_UNPOPUATED, application like QEMU can avoid pre-read faults all
the memory before wr-protect during taking a live snapshot. Quotting from
Muhammad's test result here [3] based on a simple program [4]:
(1) With huge page disabled
echo madvise > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
./uffd_wp_perf
Test DEFAULT: 4
Test PRE-READ: 1111453 (pre-fault 1101011)
Test MADVISE: 278276 (pre-fault 266378)
Test WP-UNPOPULATE: 11712
(2) With Huge page enabled
echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
./uffd_wp_perf
Test DEFAULT: 4
Test PRE-READ: 22521 (pre-fault 22348)
Test MADVISE: 4909 (pre-fault 4743)
Test WP-UNPOPULATE: 14448
There'll be a great perf boost for no-thp case, while for thp enabled with
extreme case of all-thp-zero WP_UNPOPULATED can be slower than MADVISE,
but that's low possibility in reality, also the overhead was not reduced
but postponed until a follow up write on any huge zero thp, so potentially
it is faster by making the follow up writes slower.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210401092226.102804-4-andrey.gruzdev@virtuozzo.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y+v2HJ8+3i%2FKzDBu@x1n/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/d0eb0a13-16dc-1ac1-653a-78b7273781e3@collabora.com/
[4] https://github.com/xzpeter/clibs/blob/master/uffd-test/uffd-wp-perf.c
[peterx@redhat.com: comment changes, oneliner fix to khugepaged]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZB2/8jPhD3fpx5U8@x1n
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230309223711.823547-1-peterx@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230309223711.823547-2-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Gofman <pgofman@codeweavers.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Device exclusive page table entries are used to prevent CPU access to a
page whilst it is being accessed from a device. Typically this is used to
implement atomic operations when the underlying bus does not support
atomic access. When a CPU thread encounters a device exclusive entry it
locks the page and restores the original entry after calling mmu notifiers
to signal drivers that exclusive access is no longer available.
The device exclusive entry holds a reference to the page making it safe to
access the struct page whilst the entry is present. However the fault
handling code does not hold the PTL when taking the page lock. This means
if there are multiple threads faulting concurrently on the device
exclusive entry one will remove the entry whilst others will wait on the
page lock without holding a reference.
This can lead to threads locking or waiting on a folio with a zero
refcount. Whilst mmap_lock prevents the pages getting freed via munmap()
they may still be freed by a migration. This leads to warnings such as
PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE due to the page being locked when the refcount
drops to zero.
Fix this by trying to take a reference on the folio before locking it.
The code already checks the PTE under the PTL and aborts if the entry is
no longer there. It is also possible the folio has been unmapped, freed
and re-allocated allowing a reference to be taken on an unrelated folio.
This case is also detected by the PTE check and the folio is unlocked
without further changes.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330012519.804116-1-apopple@nvidia.com
Fixes: b756a3b5e7 ("mm: device exclusive memory access")
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Syzbot reports a warning in untrack_pfn(). Digging into the root we found
that this is due to memory allocation failure in pmd_alloc_one. And this
failure is produced due to failslab.
In copy_page_range(), memory alloaction for pmd failed. During the error
handling process in copy_page_range(), mmput() is called to remove all
vmas. While untrack_pfn this empty pfn, warning happens.
Here's a simplified flow:
dup_mm
dup_mmap
copy_page_range
copy_p4d_range
copy_pud_range
copy_pmd_range
pmd_alloc
__pmd_alloc
pmd_alloc_one
page = alloc_pages(gfp, 0);
if (!page)
return NULL;
mmput
exit_mmap
unmap_vmas
unmap_single_vma
untrack_pfn
follow_phys
WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
Since this vma is not generate successfully, we can clear flag VM_PAT. In
this case, untrack_pfn() will not be called while cleaning this vma.
Function untrack_pfn_moved() has also been renamed to fit the new logic.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230217025615.1595558-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
Reported-by: <syzbot+5f488e922d047d8f00cc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Replace alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(). The main difference is
returning a folio containing a single page instead of returning the page,
but take the opportunity to rename the function to match other allocation
functions a little better and rewrite the documentation to place more
emphasis on the zeroing rather than the highmem aspect.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230116191813.2145215-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add vma_has_recency() to indicate whether a VMA may exhibit temporal
locality that the LRU algorithm relies on.
This function returns false for VMAs marked by VM_SEQ_READ or
VM_RAND_READ. While the former flag indicates linear access, i.e., a
special case of spatial locality, both flags indicate a lack of temporal
locality, i.e., the reuse of an area within a relatively small duration.
"Recency" is chosen over "locality" to avoid confusion between temporal
and spatial localities.
Before this patch, the active/inactive LRU only ignored the accessed bit
from VMAs marked by VM_SEQ_READ. After this patch, the active/inactive
LRU and MGLRU share the same logic: they both ignore the accessed bit if
vma_has_recency() returns false.
For the active/inactive LRU, the following fio test showed a [6, 8]%
increase in IOPS when randomly accessing mapped files under memory
pressure.
kb=$(awk '/MemTotal/ { print $2 }' /proc/meminfo)
kb=$((kb - 8*1024*1024))
modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=$kb
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1M
mkfs.ext4 /dev/ram0
mount /dev/ram0 /mnt/
swapoff -a
fio --name=test --directory=/mnt/ --ioengine=mmap --numjobs=8 \
--size=8G --rw=randrw --time_based --runtime=10m \
--group_reporting
The discussion that led to this patch is here [1]. Additional test
results are available in that thread.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y31s%2FK8T85jh05wH@google.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221230215252.2628425-1-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Convert deactivate_page() to folio_deactivate()", v4.
Deactivate_page() has already been converted to use folios. This patch
series modifies the callers of deactivate_page() to use folios. It also
introduces vm_normal_folio() to assist with folio conversions, and
converts deactivate_page() to folio_deactivate() which takes in a folio.
This patch (of 4):
Introduce a wrapper function called vm_normal_folio(). This function
calls vm_normal_page() and returns the folio of the page found, or null if
no page is found.
This function allows callers to get a folio from a pte, which will
eventually allow them to completely replace their struct page variables
with struct folio instead.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221221180848.20774-1-vishal.moola@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221221180848.20774-2-vishal.moola@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This patch is a cleanup to always wr-protect pte/pmd in mkuffd_wp paths.
The reasons I still think this patch is worthwhile, are:
(1) It is a cleanup already; diffstat tells.
(2) It just feels natural after I thought about this, if the pte is uffd
protected, let's remove the write bit no matter what it was.
(2) Since x86 is the only arch that supports uffd-wp, it also redefines
pte|pmd_mkuffd_wp() in that it should always contain removals of
write bits. It means any future arch that want to implement uffd-wp
should naturally follow this rule too. It's good to make it a
default, even if with vm_page_prot changes on VM_UFFD_WP.
(3) It covers more than vm_page_prot. So no chance of any potential
future "accident" (like pte_mkdirty() sparc64 or loongarch, even
though it just got its pte_mkdirty fixed <1 month ago). It'll be
fairly clear when reading the code too that we don't worry anything
before a pte_mkuffd_wp() on uncertainty of the write bit.
We may call pte_wrprotect() one more time in some paths (e.g. thp split),
but that should be fully local bitop instruction so the overhead should be
negligible.
Although this patch should logically also fix all the known issues on
uffd-wp too recently on page migration (not for numa hint recovery - that
may need another explcit pte_wrprotect), but this is not the plan for that
fix. So no fixes, and stable doesn't need this.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221214201533.1774616-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ives van Hoorne <ives@codesandbox.io>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This patch should harden commit 15520a3f04 ("mm: use pte markers for
swap errors") on using pte markers for swapin errors on a few corner
cases.
1. Propagate swapin errors across fork()s: if there're swapin errors in
the parent mm, after fork()s the child should sigbus too when an error
page is accessed.
2. Fix a rare condition race in pte_marker_clear() where a uffd-wp pte
marker can be quickly switched to a swapin error.
3. Explicitly ignore swapin error pte markers in change_protection().
I mostly don't worry on (2) or (3) at all, but we should still have them.
Case (1) is special because it can potentially cause silent data corrupt
on child when parent has swapin error triggered with swapoff, but since
swapin error is rare itself already it's probably not easy to trigger
either.
Currently there is a priority difference between the uffd-wp bit and the
swapin error entry, in which the swapin error always has higher priority
(e.g. we don't need to wr-protect a swapin error pte marker).
If there will be a 3rd bit introduced, we'll probably need to consider a
more involved approach so we may need to start operate on the bits. Let's
leave that for later.
This patch is tested with case (1) explicitly where we'll get corrupted
data before in the child if there's existing swapin error pte markers, and
after patch applied the child can be rightfully killed.
We don't need to copy stable for this one since 15520a3f04 just landed
as part of v6.2-rc1, only "Fixes" applied.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221214200453.1772655-3-peterx@redhat.com
Fixes: 15520a3f04 ("mm: use pte markers for swap errors")
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Extend FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE to break COW on anything mapped into a
COW (i.e., private writable) mapping and adjust the documentation
accordingly.
FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE will now also break COW when encountering the shared
zeropage, a pagecache page, a PFNMAP, ... inside a COW mapping, by
properly replacing the mapped page/pfn by a private copy (an exclusive
anonymous page).
Note that only do_wp_page() needs care: hugetlb_wp() already handles
FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE correctly. wp_huge_pmd()/wp_huge_pud() also handles it
correctly, for example, splitting the huge zeropage on FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE
such that we can handle FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE on the PTE level.
This change is a requirement for reliable long-term R/O pinning in
COW mappings.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221116102659.70287-9-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
If we already have a PMD/PUD mapped write-protected in a private mapping
and we want to break COW either due to FAULT_FLAG_WRITE or
FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE, there is no need to inform the file system just like on
the PTE path.
Let's just split (->zap) + fallback in that case.
This is a preparation for more generic FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE support in
COW mappings.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221116102659.70287-8-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We want to extent FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE support to anything mapped into a
COW mapping (pagecache page, zeropage, PFN, ...), not just anonymous pages.
Let's prepare for that by handling shared mappings first such that we can
handle private mappings last.
While at it, use folio-based functions instead of page-based functions
where we touch the code either way.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221116102659.70287-7-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Let's catch abuse of FAULT_FLAG_WRITE early, such that we don't have to
care in all other handlers and might get "surprises" if we forget to do
so.
Write faults without VM_MAYWRITE don't make any sense, and our
maybe_mkwrite() logic could have hidden such abuse for now.
Write faults without VM_WRITE on something that is not a COW mapping is
similarly broken, and e.g., do_wp_page() could end up placing an
anonymous page into a shared mapping, which would be bad.
This is a preparation for reliable R/O long-term pinning of pages in
private mappings, whereby we want to make sure that we will never break
COW in a read-only private mapping.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221116102659.70287-6-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
For now, FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE only applies to anonymous pages, which
implies a COW mapping. Let's hide FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE early if we're not
dealing with a COW mapping, such that we treat it like a read fault as
documented and don't have to worry about the flag throughout all fault
handlers.
While at it, centralize the check for mutual exclusion of
FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE and FAULT_FLAG_WRITE and just drop the check that
either flag is set in the WP handler.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221116102659.70287-5-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When we remove a page table entry, we are very careful to only free the
page after we have flushed the TLB, because other CPUs could still be
using the page through stale TLB entries until after the flush.
However, we have removed the rmap entry for that page early, which means
that functions like folio_mkclean() would end up not serializing with the
page table lock because the page had already been made invisible to rmap.
And that is a problem, because while the TLB entry exists, we could end up
with the following situation:
(a) one CPU could come in and clean it, never seeing our mapping of the
page
(b) another CPU could continue to use the stale and dirty TLB entry and
continue to write to said page
resulting in a page that has been dirtied, but then marked clean again,
all while another CPU might have dirtied it some more.
End result: possibly lost dirty data.
This extends our current TLB gather infrastructure to optionally track a
"should I do a delayed page_remove_rmap() for this page after flushing the
TLB". It uses the newly introduced 'encoded page pointer' to do that
without having to keep separate data around.
Note, this is complicated by a couple of issues:
- we want to delay the rmap removal, but not past the page table lock,
because that simplifies the memcg accounting
- only SMP configurations want to delay TLB flushing, since on UP
there are obviously no remote TLBs to worry about, and the page
table lock means there are no preemption issues either
- s390 has its own mmu_gather model that doesn't delay TLB flushing,
and as a result also does not want the delayed rmap. As such, we can
treat S390 like the UP case and use a common fallback for the "no
delays" case.
- we can track an enormous number of pages in our mmu_gather structure,
with MAX_GATHER_BATCH_COUNT batches of MAX_TABLE_BATCH pages each,
all set up to be approximately 10k pending pages.
We do not want to have a huge number of batched pages that we then
need to check for delayed rmap handling inside the page table lock.
Particularly that last point results in a noteworthy detail, where the
normal page batch gathering is limited once we have delayed rmaps pending,
in such a way that only the last batch (the so-called "active batch") in
the mmu_gather structure can have any delayed entries.
NOTE! While the "possibly lost dirty data" sounds catastrophic, for this
all to happen you need to have a user thread doing either madvise() with
MADV_DONTNEED or a full re-mmap() of the area concurrently with another
thread continuing to use said mapping.
So arguably this is about user space doing crazy things, but from a VM
consistency standpoint it's better if we track the dirty bit properly even
when user space goes off the rails.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix UP build, per Linus]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/B88D3073-440A-41C7-95F4-895D3F657EF2@gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109203051.1835763-4-torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
