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authorVlastimil Babka2014-01-23 15:52:50 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds2014-01-23 16:36:50 -0800
commit01cc2e58697e34c6ee9a40fb6cebc18bf5a1923f (patch)
treef1f0bf6c95568cb85771c58c6a9f7dc6168d2879 /Documentation
parentf0b791a34cb3cffd2bbc3ca4365c9b719fa2c9f3 (diff)
mm: munlock: fix potential race with THP page split
Since commit ff6a6da60b89 ("mm: accelerate munlock() treatment of THP pages") munlock skips tail pages of a munlocked THP page. There is some attempt to prevent bad consequences of racing with a THP page split, but code inspection indicates that there are two problems that may lead to a non-fatal, yet wrong outcome. First, __split_huge_page_refcount() copies flags including PageMlocked from the head page to the tail pages. Clearing PageMlocked by munlock_vma_page() in the middle of this operation might result in part of tail pages left with PageMlocked flag. As the head page still appears to be a THP page until all tail pages are processed, munlock_vma_page() might think it munlocked the whole THP page and skip all the former tail pages. Before ff6a6da60, those pages would be cleared in further iterations of munlock_vma_pages_range(), but NR_MLOCK would still become undercounted (related the next point). Second, NR_MLOCK accounting is based on call to hpage_nr_pages() after the PageMlocked is cleared. The accounting might also become inconsistent due to race with __split_huge_page_refcount() - undercount when HUGE_PMD_NR is subtracted, but some tail pages are left with PageMlocked set and counted again (only possible before ff6a6da60) - overcount when hpage_nr_pages() sees a normal page (split has already finished), but the parallel split has meanwhile cleared PageMlocked from additional tail pages This patch prevents both problems via extending the scope of lru_lock in munlock_vma_page(). This is convenient because: - __split_huge_page_refcount() takes lru_lock for its whole operation - munlock_vma_page() typically takes lru_lock anyway for page isolation As this becomes a second function where page isolation is done with lru_lock already held, factor this out to a new __munlock_isolate_lru_page() function and clean up the code around. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid a coding-style ugly] Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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