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

mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared

2014-10-14T00:18:28Z

For VMAs that don't want write notifications, PTEs created for read faults have their write bit set. If the read fault happens after VM_SOFTDIRTY is cleared, then the PTE's softdirty bit will remain clear after subsequent writes. Here's a simple code snippet to demonstrate the bug: char* m = mmap(NULL, getpagesize(), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0); system("echo 4 > /proc/$PPID/clear_refs"); /* clear VM_SOFTDIRTY */ assert(*m == '\0'); /* new PTE allows write access */ assert(!soft_dirty(x)); *m = 'x'; /* should dirty the page */ assert(soft_dirty(x)); /* fails */ With this patch, write notifications are enabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is cleared. Furthermore, to avoid unnecessary faults, write notifications are disabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is set. As a side effect of enabling and disabling write notifications with care, this patch fixes a bug in mprotect where vm_page_prot bits set by drivers were zapped on mprotect. An analogous bug was fixed in mmap by commit c9d0bf241451 ("mm: uncached vma support with writenotify"). Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner Reported-by: Peter Feiner Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Jamie Liu Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: move mmu notifier call from change_protection to change_pmd_range

2014-04-07T23:35:50Z

The NUMA scanning code can end up iterating over many gigabytes of unpopulated memory, especially in the case of a freshly started KVM guest with lots of memory. This results in the mmu notifier code being called even when there are no mapped pages in a virtual address range. The amount of time wasted can be enough to trigger soft lockup warnings with very large KVM guests. This patch moves the mmu notifier call to the pmd level, which represents 1GB areas of memory on x86-64. Furthermore, the mmu notifier code is only called from the address in the PMD where present mappings are first encountered. The hugetlbfs code is left alone for now; hugetlb mappings are not relocatable, and as such are left alone by the NUMA code, and should never trigger this problem to begin with. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Reported-by: Xing Gang Tested-by: Chegu Vinod Cc: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: numa: recheck for transhuge pages under lock during protection changes

2014-04-07T23:35:50Z

Sasha reported the following bug using trinity kernel BUG at mm/mprotect.c:149! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Dumping ftrace buffer: (ftrace buffer empty) Modules linked in: CPU: 20 PID: 26219 Comm: trinity-c216 Tainted: G W 3.14.0-rc5-next-20140305-sasha-00011-ge06f5f3-dirty #105 task: ffff8800b6c80000 ti: ffff880228436000 task.ti: ffff880228436000 RIP: change_protection_range+0x3b3/0x500 Call Trace: change_protection+0x25/0x30 change_prot_numa+0x1b/0x30 task_numa_work+0x279/0x360 task_work_run+0xae/0xf0 do_notify_resume+0x8e/0xe0 retint_signal+0x4d/0x92 The VM_BUG_ON was added in -mm by the patch "mm,numa: reorganize change_pmd_range". The race existed without the patch but was just harder to hit. The problem is that a transhuge check is made without holding the PTL. It's possible at the time of the check that a parallel fault clears the pmd and inserts a new one which then triggers the VM_BUG_ON check. This patch removes the VM_BUG_ON but fixes the race by rechecking transhuge under the PTL when marking page tables for NUMA hinting and bailing if a race occurred. It is not a problem for calls to mprotect() as they hold mmap_sem for write. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reported-by: Sasha Levin Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm,numa: reorganize change_pmd_range()

2014-04-07T23:35:49Z

Reorganize the order of ifs in change_pmd_range a little, in preparation for the next patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix indenting, per David] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Reported-by: Xing Gang Tested-by: Chegu Vinod Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Use ptep/pmdp_set_numa() for updating _PAGE_NUMA bit

2014-02-17T00:19:36Z

Archs like ppc64 doesn't do tlb flush in set_pte/pmd functions when using a hash table MMU for various reasons (the flush is handled as part of the PTE modification when necessary). ppc64 thus doesn't implement flush_tlb_range for hash based MMUs. Additionally ppc64 require the tlb flushing to be batched within ptl locks. The reason to do that is to ensure that the hash page table is in sync with linux page table. We track the hpte index in linux pte and if we clear them without flushing hash and drop the ptl lock, we can have another cpu update the pte and can end up with duplicate entry in the hash table, which is fatal. We also want to keep set_pte_at simpler by not requiring them to do hash flush for performance reason. We do that by assuming that set_pte_at() is never *ever* called on a PTE that is already valid. This was the case until the NUMA code went in which broke that assumption. Fix that by introducing a new pair of helpers to set _PAGE_NUMA in a way similar to ptep/pmdp_set_wrprotect(), with a generic implementation using set_pte_at() and a powerpc specific one using the appropriate mechanism needed to keep the hash table in sync. Acked-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

mm: Dirty accountable change only apply to non prot numa case

2014-02-17T00:19:36Z

So move it within the if loop Acked-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

mm: numa: do not automatically migrate KSM pages

2014-01-22T00:19:48Z

KSM pages can be shared between tasks that are not necessarily related to each other from a NUMA perspective. This patch causes those pages to be ignored by automatic NUMA balancing so they do not migrate and do not cause unrelated tasks to be grouped together. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Alex Thorlton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range

2013-12-19T03:04:51Z

There are a few subtle races, between change_protection_range (used by mprotect and change_prot_numa) on one side, and NUMA page migration and compaction on the other side. The basic race is that there is a time window between when the PTE gets made non-present (PROT_NONE or NUMA), and the TLB is flushed. During that time, a CPU may continue writing to the page. This is fine most of the time, however compaction or the NUMA migration code may come in, and migrate the page away. When that happens, the CPU may continue writing, through the cached translation, to what is no longer the current memory location of the process. This only affects x86, which has a somewhat optimistic pte_accessible. All other architectures appear to be safe, and will either always flush, or flush whenever there is a valid mapping, even with no permissions (SPARC). The basic race looks like this: CPU A CPU B CPU C load TLB entry make entry PTE/PMD_NUMA fault on entry read/write old page start migrating page change PTE/PMD to new page read/write old page [*] flush TLB reload TLB from new entry read/write new page lose data [*] the old page may belong to a new user at this point! The obvious fix is to flush remote TLB entries, by making sure that pte_accessible aware of the fact that PROT_NONE and PROT_NUMA memory may still be accessible if there is a TLB flush pending for the mm. This should fix both NUMA migration and compaction. [mgorman@suse.de: fix build] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Alex Thorlton Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: numa: clear numa hinting information on mprotect

2013-12-19T03:04:51Z

On a protection change it is no longer clear if the page should be still accessible. This patch clears the NUMA hinting fault bits on a protection change. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Alex Thorlton Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: numa: do not clear PTE for pte_numa update

2013-12-19T03:04:51Z

The TLB must be flushed if the PTE is updated but change_pte_range is clearing the PTE while marking PTEs pte_numa without necessarily flushing the TLB if it reinserts the same entry. Without the flush, it's conceivable that two processors have different TLBs for the same virtual address and at the very least it would generate spurious faults. This patch only unmaps the pages in change_pte_range for a full protection change. [riel@redhat.com: write pte_numa pte back to the page tables] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Alex Thorlton Cc: Chegu Vinod Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds