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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/khugepaged.c | 55 |
1 files changed, 51 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c index a8d5ef2a77d2..0a11e132ad6b 100644 --- a/mm/khugepaged.c +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -1379,16 +1379,37 @@ static int set_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, return SCAN_SUCCEED; } +/* + * A note about locking: + * Trying to take the page table spinlocks would be useless here because those + * are only used to synchronize: + * + * - modifying terminal entries (ones that point to a data page, not to another + * page table) + * - installing *new* non-terminal entries + * + * Instead, we need roughly the same kind of protection as free_pgtables() or + * mm_take_all_locks() (but only for a single VMA): + * The mmap lock together with this VMA's rmap locks covers all paths towards + * the page table entries we're messing with here, except for hardware page + * table walks and lockless_pages_from_mm(). + */ static void collapse_and_free_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp) { - spinlock_t *ptl; pmd_t pmd; mmap_assert_write_locked(mm); - ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmdp); + if (vma->vm_file) + lockdep_assert_held_write(&vma->vm_file->f_mapping->i_mmap_rwsem); + /* + * All anon_vmas attached to the VMA have the same root and are + * therefore locked by the same lock. + */ + if (vma->anon_vma) + lockdep_assert_held_write(&vma->anon_vma->root->rwsem); + pmd = pmdp_collapse_flush(vma, addr, pmdp); - spin_unlock(ptl); mm_dec_nr_ptes(mm); page_table_check_pte_clear_range(mm, addr, pmd); pte_free(mm, pmd_pgtable(pmd)); @@ -1439,6 +1460,14 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, if (!hugepage_vma_check(vma, vma->vm_flags, false, false, false)) return SCAN_VMA_CHECK; + /* + * Symmetry with retract_page_tables(): Exclude MAP_PRIVATE mappings + * that got written to. Without this, we'd have to also lock the + * anon_vma if one exists. + */ + if (vma->anon_vma) + return SCAN_VMA_CHECK; + /* Keep pmd pgtable for uffd-wp; see comment in retract_page_tables() */ if (userfaultfd_wp(vma)) return SCAN_PTE_UFFD_WP; @@ -1472,6 +1501,20 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, goto drop_hpage; } + /* + * We need to lock the mapping so that from here on, only GUP-fast and + * hardware page walks can access the parts of the page tables that + * we're operating on. + * See collapse_and_free_pmd(). + */ + i_mmap_lock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping); + + /* + * This spinlock should be unnecessary: Nobody else should be accessing + * the page tables under spinlock protection here, only + * lockless_pages_from_mm() and the hardware page walker can access page + * tables while all the high-level locks are held in write mode. + */ start_pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, haddr, &ptl); result = SCAN_FAIL; @@ -1526,6 +1569,8 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, /* step 4: remove pte entries */ collapse_and_free_pmd(mm, vma, haddr, pmd); + i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping); + maybe_install_pmd: /* step 5: install pmd entry */ result = install_pmd @@ -1539,6 +1584,7 @@ drop_hpage: abort: pte_unmap_unlock(start_pte, ptl); + i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping); goto drop_hpage; } @@ -1595,7 +1641,8 @@ static int retract_page_tables(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t pgoff, * An alternative would be drop the check, but check that page * table is clear before calling pmdp_collapse_flush() under * ptl. It has higher chance to recover THP for the VMA, but - * has higher cost too. + * has higher cost too. It would also probably require locking + * the anon_vma. */ if (vma->anon_vma) { result = SCAN_PAGE_ANON; |