kernel.git/mm/ksm.c, branch linux-3.18.y

mm/ksm: fix interaction with THP

2018-05-30T05:47:39Z

[ Upstream commit 77da2ba0648a4fd52e5ff97b8b2b8dd312aec4b0 ] This patch fixes a corner case for KSM. When two pages belong or belonged to the same transparent hugepage, and they should be merged, KSM fails to split the page, and therefore no merging happens. This bug can be reproduced by: * making sure ksm is running (in case disabling ksmtuned) * enabling transparent hugepages * allocating a THP-aligned 1-THP-sized buffer e.g. on amd64: posix_memalign(&p, 1<<21, 1<<21) * filling it with the same values e.g. memset(p, 42, 1<<21) * performing madvise to make it mergeable e.g. madvise(p, 1<<21, MADV_MERGEABLE) * waiting for KSM to perform a few scans The expected outcome is that the all the pages get merged (1 shared and the rest sharing); the actual outcome is that no pages get merged (1 unshared and the rest volatile) The reason of this behaviour is that we increase the reference count once for both pages we want to merge, but if they belong to the same hugepage (or compound page), the reference counter used in both cases is the one of the head of the compound page. This means that split_huge_page will find a value of the reference counter too high and will fail. This patch solves this problem by testing if the two pages to merge belong to the same hugepage when attempting to merge them. If so, the hugepage is split safely. This means that the hugepage is not split if not necessary. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521548069-24758-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda Co-authored-by: Gerald Schaefer Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm,ksm: fix endless looping in allocating memory when ksm enable

2016-12-23T14:41:22Z

[ Upstream commit 5b398e416e880159fe55eefd93c6588fa072cd66 ] I hit the following hung task when runing a OOM LTP test case with 4.1 kernel. Call trace: [] __switch_to+0x74/0x8c [] __schedule+0x23c/0x7bc [] schedule+0x3c/0x94 [] rwsem_down_write_failed+0x214/0x350 [] down_write+0x64/0x80 [] __ksm_exit+0x90/0x19c [] mmput+0x118/0x11c [] do_exit+0x2dc/0xa74 [] do_group_exit+0x4c/0xe4 [] get_signal+0x444/0x5e0 [] do_signal+0x1d8/0x450 [] do_notify_resume+0x70/0x78 The oom victim cannot terminate because it needs to take mmap_sem for write while the lock is held by ksmd for read which loops in the page allocator ksm_do_scan scan_get_next_rmap_item down_read get_next_rmap_item alloc_rmap_item #ksmd will loop permanently. There is no way forward because the oom victim cannot release any memory in 4.1 based kernel. Since 4.6 we have the oom reaper which would solve this problem because it would release the memory asynchronously. Nevertheless we can relax alloc_rmap_item requirements and use __GFP_NORETRY because the allocation failure is acceptable as ksm_do_scan would just retry later after the lock got dropped. Such a patch would be also easy to backport to older stable kernels which do not have oom_reaper. While we are at it add GFP_NOWARN so the admin doesn't have to be alarmed by the allocation failure. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474165570-44398-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: zhong jiang Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins Suggested-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support

2015-02-06T06:36:01Z

commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream. The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a "you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler. That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do retries etc" - but it generally works. However, there are cases where the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV. In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a SIGSEGV. And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by that duplicated architecture fault handler. However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space. And user space really expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS. To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those duplicate architecture fault handlers about it. They all already have the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying. This is the mindless minimal patch to do this. A more extensive patch would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that cleanup. Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other "newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about them too. Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt Acked-by: Heiko Carstens # "s390 still compiles and boots" Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: ksm use pr_err instead of printk

2014-10-10T02:26:00Z

WARNING: Prefer: pr_err(... to printk(KERN_ERR ... [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove KERN_ERR] Signed-off-by: Paul McQuade Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions

2014-07-16T13:10:39Z

The current "wait_on_bit" interface requires an 'action' function to be provided which does the actual waiting. There are over 20 such functions, many of them identical. Most cases can be satisfied by one of just two functions, one which uses io_schedule() and one which just uses schedule(). So: Rename wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock to wait_on_bit_action and wait_on_bit_lock_action to make it explicit that they need an action function. Introduce new wait_on_bit{,_lock} and wait_on_bit{,_lock}_io which are *not* given an action function but implicitly use a standard one. The decision to error-out if a signal is pending is now made based on the 'mode' argument rather than being encoded in the action function. All instances of the old wait_on_bit and wait_on_bit_lock which can use the new version have been changed accordingly and their action functions have been discarded. wait_on_bit{_lock} does not return any specific error code in the event of a signal so the caller must check for non-zero and interpolate their own error code as appropriate. The wait_on_bit() call in __fscache_wait_on_invalidate() was ambiguous as it specified TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE but used fscache_wait_bit_interruptible as an action function. David Howells confirms this should be uniformly "uninterruptible" The main remaining user of wait_on_bit{,_lock}_action is NFS which needs to use a freezer-aware schedule() call. A comment in fs/gfs2/glock.c notes that having multiple 'action' functions is useful as they display differently in the 'wchan' field of 'ps'. (and /proc/$PID/wchan). As the new bit_wait{,_io} functions are tagged "__sched", they will not show up at all, but something higher in the stack. So the distinction will still be visible, only with different function names (gds2_glock_wait versus gfs2_glock_dq_wait in the gfs2/glock.c case). Since first version of this patch (against 3.15) two new action functions appeared, on in NFS and one in CIFS. CIFS also now uses an action function that makes the same freezer aware schedule call as NFS. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Acked-by: David Howells (fscache, keys) Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse (gfs2) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Steve French Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140707051603.28027.72349.stgit@notabene.brown Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: let mm_find_pmd fix buggy race with THP fault

2014-06-23T23:47:44Z

Trinity has reported: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018 IP: __lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3070 (discriminator 1)) CPU: 6 PID: 16173 Comm: trinity-c364 Tainted: G W 3.15.0-rc1-next-20140415-sasha-00020-gaa90d09 #398 lock_acquire (arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:14 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3602) _raw_spin_lock (include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151) remove_migration_pte (mm/migrate.c:137) rmap_walk (mm/rmap.c:1628 mm/rmap.c:1699) remove_migration_ptes (mm/migrate.c:224) migrate_pages (mm/migrate.c:922 mm/migrate.c:960 mm/migrate.c:1126) migrate_misplaced_page (mm/migrate.c:1733) __handle_mm_fault (mm/memory.c:3762 mm/memory.c:3812 mm/memory.c:3925) handle_mm_fault (mm/memory.c:3948) __get_user_pages (mm/memory.c:1851) __mlock_vma_pages_range (mm/mlock.c:255) __mm_populate (mm/mlock.c:711) SyS_mlockall (include/linux/mm.h:1799 mm/mlock.c:817 mm/mlock.c:791) I believe this comes about because, whereas collapsing and splitting THP functions take anon_vma lock in write mode (which excludes concurrent rmap walks), faulting THP functions (write protection and misplaced NUMA) do not - and mostly they do not need to. But they do use a pmdp_clear_flush(), set_pmd_at() sequence which, for an instant (indeed, for a long instant, given the inter-CPU TLB flush in there), leaves *pmd neither present not trans_huge. Which can confuse a concurrent rmap walk, as when removing migration ptes, seen in the dumped trace. Although that rmap walk has a 4k page to insert, anon_vmas containing THPs are in no way segregated from 4k-page anon_vmas, so the 4k-intent mm_find_pmd() does need to cope with that instant when a trans_huge pmd is temporarily absent. I don't think we need strengthen the locking at the THP end: it's easily handled with an ACCESS_ONCE() before testing both conditions. And since mm_find_pmd() had only one caller who wanted a THP rather than a pmd, let's slightly repurpose it to fail when it hits a THP or non-present pmd, and open code split_huge_page_address() again. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Reported-by: Sasha Levin Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Bob Liu Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Dave Jones Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: close PageTail race

2014-03-04T15:55:47Z

Commit bf6bddf1924e ("mm: introduce compaction and migration for ballooned pages") introduces page_count(page) into memory compaction which dereferences page->first_page if PageTail(page). This results in a very rare NULL pointer dereference on the aforementioned page_count(page). Indeed, anything that does compound_head(), including page_count() is susceptible to racing with prep_compound_page() and seeing a NULL or dangling page->first_page pointer. This patch uses Andrea's implementation of compound_trans_head() that deals with such a race and makes it the default compound_head() implementation. This includes a read memory barrier that ensures that if PageTail(head) is true that we return a head page that is neither NULL nor dangling. The patch then adds a store memory barrier to prep_compound_page() to ensure page->first_page is set. This is the safest way to ensure we see the head page that we are expecting, PageTail(page) is already in the unlikely() path and the memory barriers are unfortunately required. Hugetlbfs is the exception, we don't enforce a store memory barrier during init since no race is possible. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Holger Kiehl Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Rafael Aquini Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code

2014-01-24T00:36:52Z

Code that is obj-y (always built-in) or dependent on a bool Kconfig (built-in or absent) can never be modular. So using module_init as an alias for __initcall can be somewhat misleading. Fix these up now, so that we can relocate module_init from init.h into module.h in the future. If we don't do this, we'd have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that would be a worse thing. The audit targets the following module_init users for change: mm/ksm.c bool KSM mm/mmap.c bool MMU mm/huge_memory.c bool TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE mm/mmu_notifier.c bool MMU_NOTIFIER Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs. one of the priority categorized subgroups. As __initcall gets mapped onto device_initcall, our use of subsys_initcall (which makes sense for these files) will thus change this registration from level 6-device to level 4-subsys (i.e. slightly earlier). However no observable impact of that difference has been observed during testing. One might think that core_initcall (l2) or postcore_initcall (l3) would be more appropriate for anything in mm/ but if we look at some actual init functions themselves, we see things like: mm/huge_memory.c --> hugepage_init --> hugepage_init_sysfs mm/mmap.c --> init_user_reserve --> sysctl_user_reserve_kbytes mm/ksm.c --> ksm_init --> sysfs_create_group and hence the choice of subsys_initcall (l4) seems reasonable, and at the same time minimizes the risk of changing the priority too drastically all at once. We can adjust further in the future. Also, several instances of missing ";" at EOL are fixed. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE

2014-01-24T00:36:50Z

Most of the VM_BUG_ON assertions are performed on a page. Usually, when one of these assertions fails we'll get a BUG_ON with a call stack and the registers. I've recently noticed based on the requests to add a small piece of code that dumps the page to various VM_BUG_ON sites that the page dump is quite useful to people debugging issues in mm. This patch adds a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(cond, page) which beyond doing what VM_BUG_ON() does, also dumps the page before executing the actual BUG_ON. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up includes] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/rmap: use rmap_walk() in page_referenced()

2014-01-22T00:19:45Z

Now, we have an infrastructure in rmap_walk() to handle difference from variants of rmap traversing functions. So, just use it in page_referenced(). In this patch, I change following things. 1. remove some variants of rmap traversing functions. cf> page_referenced_ksm, page_referenced_anon, page_referenced_file 2. introduce new struct page_referenced_arg and pass it to page_referenced_one(), main function of rmap_walk, in order to count reference, to store vm_flags and to check finish condition. 3. mechanical change to use rmap_walk() in page_referenced(). [liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com: fix BUG at rmap_walk] Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Hillf Danton Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Cc: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds