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<title>mm: include VM_MIXEDMAP flag in the VM_SPECIAL list to avoid m(un)locking</title>
<updated>2014-03-24T04:43:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-03T23:38:27+00:00</published>
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commit 9050d7eba40b3d79551668f54e68fd6f51945ef3 upstream.

Daniel Borkmann reported a VM_BUG_ON assertion failing:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at mm/mlock.c:528!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: ccm arc4 iwldvm [...]
   video
  CPU: 3 PID: 2266 Comm: netsniff-ng Not tainted 3.14.0-rc2+ #8
  Hardware name: LENOVO 2429BP3/2429BP3, BIOS G4ET37WW (1.12 ) 05/29/2012
  task: ffff8801f87f9820 ti: ffff88002cb44000 task.ti: ffff88002cb44000
  RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81171ad0&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81171ad0&gt;] munlock_vma_pages_range+0x2e0/0x2f0
  Call Trace:
    do_munmap+0x18f/0x3b0
    vm_munmap+0x41/0x60
    SyS_munmap+0x22/0x30
    system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
  RIP   munlock_vma_pages_range+0x2e0/0x2f0
  ---[ end trace a0088dcf07ae10f2 ]---

because munlock_vma_pages_range() thinks it's unexpectedly in the middle
of a THP page.  This can be reproduced with default config since 3.11
kernels.  A reproducer can be found in the kernel's selftest directory
for networking by running ./psock_tpacket.

The problem is that an order=2 compound page (allocated by
alloc_one_pg_vec_page() is part of the munlocked VM_MIXEDMAP vma (mapped
by packet_mmap()) and mistaken for a THP page and assumed to be order=9.

The checks for THP in munlock came with commit ff6a6da60b89 ("mm:
accelerate munlock() treatment of THP pages"), i.e.  since 3.9, but did
not trigger a bug.  It just makes munlock_vma_pages_range() skip such
compound pages until the next 512-pages-aligned page, when it encounters
a head page.  This is however not a problem for vma's where mlocking has
no effect anyway, but it can distort the accounting.

Since commit 7225522bb429 ("mm: munlock: batch non-THP page isolation
and munlock+putback using pagevec") this can trigger a VM_BUG_ON in
PageTransHuge() check.

This patch fixes the issue by adding VM_MIXEDMAP flag to VM_SPECIAL, a
list of flags that make vma's non-mlockable and non-mergeable.  The
reasoning is that VM_MIXEDMAP vma's are similar to VM_PFNMAP, which is
already on the VM_SPECIAL list, and both are intended for non-LRU pages
where mlocking makes no sense anyway.  Related Lkml discussion can be
found in [2].

 [1] tools/testing/selftests/net/psock_tpacket
 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/10/427

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom &lt;thellstrom@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke &lt;d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Carsten Otte &lt;cotte@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jared Hulbert &lt;jaredeh@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9050d7eba40b3d79551668f54e68fd6f51945ef3 upstream.

Daniel Borkmann reported a VM_BUG_ON assertion failing:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at mm/mlock.c:528!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: ccm arc4 iwldvm [...]
   video
  CPU: 3 PID: 2266 Comm: netsniff-ng Not tainted 3.14.0-rc2+ #8
  Hardware name: LENOVO 2429BP3/2429BP3, BIOS G4ET37WW (1.12 ) 05/29/2012
  task: ffff8801f87f9820 ti: ffff88002cb44000 task.ti: ffff88002cb44000
  RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81171ad0&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81171ad0&gt;] munlock_vma_pages_range+0x2e0/0x2f0
  Call Trace:
    do_munmap+0x18f/0x3b0
    vm_munmap+0x41/0x60
    SyS_munmap+0x22/0x30
    system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
  RIP   munlock_vma_pages_range+0x2e0/0x2f0
  ---[ end trace a0088dcf07ae10f2 ]---

because munlock_vma_pages_range() thinks it's unexpectedly in the middle
of a THP page.  This can be reproduced with default config since 3.11
kernels.  A reproducer can be found in the kernel's selftest directory
for networking by running ./psock_tpacket.

The problem is that an order=2 compound page (allocated by
alloc_one_pg_vec_page() is part of the munlocked VM_MIXEDMAP vma (mapped
by packet_mmap()) and mistaken for a THP page and assumed to be order=9.

The checks for THP in munlock came with commit ff6a6da60b89 ("mm:
accelerate munlock() treatment of THP pages"), i.e.  since 3.9, but did
not trigger a bug.  It just makes munlock_vma_pages_range() skip such
compound pages until the next 512-pages-aligned page, when it encounters
a head page.  This is however not a problem for vma's where mlocking has
no effect anyway, but it can distort the accounting.

Since commit 7225522bb429 ("mm: munlock: batch non-THP page isolation
and munlock+putback using pagevec") this can trigger a VM_BUG_ON in
PageTransHuge() check.

This patch fixes the issue by adding VM_MIXEDMAP flag to VM_SPECIAL, a
list of flags that make vma's non-mlockable and non-mergeable.  The
reasoning is that VM_MIXEDMAP vma's are similar to VM_PFNMAP, which is
already on the VM_SPECIAL list, and both are intended for non-LRU pages
where mlocking makes no sense anyway.  Related Lkml discussion can be
found in [2].

 [1] tools/testing/selftests/net/psock_tpacket
 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/10/427

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom &lt;thellstrom@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke &lt;d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Carsten Otte &lt;cotte@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jared Hulbert &lt;jaredeh@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm, thp: fix infinite loop on memcg OOM</title>
<updated>2014-03-07T06:06:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-25T23:01:42+00:00</published>
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commit 9845cbbd113fbb5b769a45d8e88dc47bc12df4e0 upstream.

Masayoshi Mizuma reported a bug with the hang of an application under
the memcg limit.  It happens on write-protection fault to huge zero page

If we successfully allocate a huge page to replace zero page but hit the
memcg limit we need to split the zero page with split_huge_page_pmd()
and fallback to small pages.

The other part of the problem is that VM_FAULT_OOM has special meaning
in do_huge_pmd_wp_page() context.  __handle_mm_fault() expects the page
to be split if it sees VM_FAULT_OOM and it will will retry page fault
handling.  This causes an infinite loop if the page was not split.

do_huge_pmd_wp_zero_page_fallback() can return VM_FAULT_OOM if it failed
to allocate one small page, so fallback to small pages will not help.

The solution for this part is to replace VM_FAULT_OOM with
VM_FAULT_FALLBACK is fallback required.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9845cbbd113fbb5b769a45d8e88dc47bc12df4e0 upstream.

Masayoshi Mizuma reported a bug with the hang of an application under
the memcg limit.  It happens on write-protection fault to huge zero page

If we successfully allocate a huge page to replace zero page but hit the
memcg limit we need to split the zero page with split_huge_page_pmd()
and fallback to small pages.

The other part of the problem is that VM_FAULT_OOM has special meaning
in do_huge_pmd_wp_page() context.  __handle_mm_fault() expects the page
to be split if it sees VM_FAULT_OOM and it will will retry page fault
handling.  This causes an infinite loop if the page was not split.

do_huge_pmd_wp_zero_page_fallback() can return VM_FAULT_OOM if it failed
to allocate one small page, so fallback to small pages will not help.

The solution for this part is to replace VM_FAULT_OOM with
VM_FAULT_FALLBACK is fallback required.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/thp: Fix crash on mremap</title>
<updated>2014-02-13T21:55:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-13T06:04:24+00:00</published>
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commit b3084f4db3aeb991c507ca774337c7e7893ed04f upstream.

This patch fix the below crash

NIP [c00000000004cee4] .__hash_page_thp+0x2a4/0x440
LR [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0
...
Call Trace:
[c000000736103c40] [00001ffffb000000] 0x1ffffb000000(unreliable)
[437908.479693] [c000000736103d50] [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0
[437908.479699] [c000000736103e30] [c00000000000924c] .do_hash_page+0x4c/0x58

On ppc64 we use the pgtable for storing the hpte slot information and
store address to the pgtable at a constant offset (PTRS_PER_PMD) from
pmd. On mremap, when we switch the pmd, we need to withdraw and deposit
the pgtable again, so that we find the pgtable at PTRS_PER_PMD offset
from new pmd.

We also want to move the withdraw and deposit before the set_pmd so
that, when page fault find the pmd as trans huge we can be sure that
pgtable can be located at the offset.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b3084f4db3aeb991c507ca774337c7e7893ed04f upstream.

This patch fix the below crash

NIP [c00000000004cee4] .__hash_page_thp+0x2a4/0x440
LR [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0
...
Call Trace:
[c000000736103c40] [00001ffffb000000] 0x1ffffb000000(unreliable)
[437908.479693] [c000000736103d50] [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0
[437908.479699] [c000000736103e30] [c00000000000924c] .do_hash_page+0x4c/0x58

On ppc64 we use the pgtable for storing the hpte slot information and
store address to the pgtable at a constant offset (PTRS_PER_PMD) from
pmd. On mremap, when we switch the pmd, we need to withdraw and deposit
the pgtable again, so that we find the pgtable at PTRS_PER_PMD offset
from new pmd.

We also want to move the withdraw and deposit before the set_pmd so
that, when page fault find the pmd as trans huge we can be sure that
pgtable can be located at the offset.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>thp: fix copy_page_rep GPF by testing is_huge_zero_pmd once only</title>
<updated>2014-01-12T09:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-12T09:25:21+00:00</published>
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We see General Protection Fault on RSI in copy_page_rep: that RSI is
what you get from a NULL struct page pointer.

  RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81154955&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81154955&gt;] copy_page_rep+0x5/0x10
  RSP: 0000:ffff880136e15c00  EFLAGS: 00010286
  RAX: ffff880000000000 RBX: ffff880136e14000 RCX: 0000000000000200
  RDX: 6db6db6db6db6db7 RSI: db73880000000000 RDI: ffff880dd0c00000
  RBP: ffff880136e15c18 R08: 0000000000000200 R09: 000000000005987c
  R10: 000000000005987c R11: 0000000000000200 R12: 0000000000000001
  R13: ffffea00305aa000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
  FS:  00007f195752f700(0000) GS:ffff880c7fc20000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000093010000 CR3: 00000001458e1000 CR4: 00000000000027e0
  Call Trace:
    copy_user_huge_page+0x93/0xab
    do_huge_pmd_wp_page+0x710/0x815
    handle_mm_fault+0x15d8/0x1d70
    __do_page_fault+0x14d/0x840
    do_page_fault+0x2f/0x90
    page_fault+0x22/0x30

do_huge_pmd_wp_page() tests is_huge_zero_pmd(orig_pmd) four times: but
since shrink_huge_zero_page() can free the huge_zero_page, and we have
no hold of our own on it here (except where the fourth test holds
page_table_lock and has checked pmd_same), it's possible for it to
answer yes the first time, but no to the second or third test.  Change
all those last three to tests for NULL page.

(Note: this is not the same issue as trinity's DEBUG_PAGEALLOC BUG
in copy_page_rep with RSI: ffff88009c422000, reported by Sasha Levin
in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/29/103.  I believe that one is due
to the source page being split, and a tail page freed, while copy
is in progress; and not a problem without DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, since
the pmd_same check will prevent a miscopy from being made visible.)

Fixes: 97ae17497e99 ("thp: implement refcounting for huge zero page")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10 v3.11 v3.12
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We see General Protection Fault on RSI in copy_page_rep: that RSI is
what you get from a NULL struct page pointer.

  RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81154955&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81154955&gt;] copy_page_rep+0x5/0x10
  RSP: 0000:ffff880136e15c00  EFLAGS: 00010286
  RAX: ffff880000000000 RBX: ffff880136e14000 RCX: 0000000000000200
  RDX: 6db6db6db6db6db7 RSI: db73880000000000 RDI: ffff880dd0c00000
  RBP: ffff880136e15c18 R08: 0000000000000200 R09: 000000000005987c
  R10: 000000000005987c R11: 0000000000000200 R12: 0000000000000001
  R13: ffffea00305aa000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
  FS:  00007f195752f700(0000) GS:ffff880c7fc20000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000093010000 CR3: 00000001458e1000 CR4: 00000000000027e0
  Call Trace:
    copy_user_huge_page+0x93/0xab
    do_huge_pmd_wp_page+0x710/0x815
    handle_mm_fault+0x15d8/0x1d70
    __do_page_fault+0x14d/0x840
    do_page_fault+0x2f/0x90
    page_fault+0x22/0x30

do_huge_pmd_wp_page() tests is_huge_zero_pmd(orig_pmd) four times: but
since shrink_huge_zero_page() can free the huge_zero_page, and we have
no hold of our own on it here (except where the fourth test holds
page_table_lock and has checked pmd_same), it's possible for it to
answer yes the first time, but no to the second or third test.  Change
all those last three to tests for NULL page.

(Note: this is not the same issue as trinity's DEBUG_PAGEALLOC BUG
in copy_page_rep with RSI: ffff88009c422000, reported by Sasha Levin
in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/29/103.  I believe that one is due
to the source page being split, and a tail page freed, while copy
is in progress; and not a problem without DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, since
the pmd_same check will prevent a miscopy from being made visible.)

Fixes: 97ae17497e99 ("thp: implement refcounting for huge zero page")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10 v3.11 v3.12
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: remove bogus warning in copy_huge_pmd()</title>
<updated>2014-01-02T22:40:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-02T20:58:49+00:00</published>
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Sasha Levin reported the following warning being triggered

  WARNING: CPU: 28 PID: 35287 at mm/huge_memory.c:887 copy_huge_pmd+0x145/ 0x3a0()
  Call Trace:
    copy_huge_pmd+0x145/0x3a0
    copy_page_range+0x3f2/0x560
    dup_mmap+0x2c9/0x3d0
    dup_mm+0xad/0x150
    copy_process+0xa68/0x12e0
    do_fork+0x96/0x270
    SyS_clone+0x16/0x20
    stub_clone+0x69/0x90

This warning was introduced by "mm: numa: Avoid unnecessary disruption
of NUMA hinting during migration" for paranoia reasons but the warning
is bogus.  I was thinking of parallel races between NUMA hinting faults
and forks but this warning would also be triggered by a parallel reclaim
splitting a THP during a fork.  Remote the bogus warning.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Sasha Levin reported the following warning being triggered

  WARNING: CPU: 28 PID: 35287 at mm/huge_memory.c:887 copy_huge_pmd+0x145/ 0x3a0()
  Call Trace:
    copy_huge_pmd+0x145/0x3a0
    copy_page_range+0x3f2/0x560
    dup_mmap+0x2c9/0x3d0
    dup_mm+0xad/0x150
    copy_process+0xa68/0x12e0
    do_fork+0x96/0x270
    SyS_clone+0x16/0x20
    stub_clone+0x69/0x90

This warning was introduced by "mm: numa: Avoid unnecessary disruption
of NUMA hinting during migration" for paranoia reasons but the warning
is bogus.  I was thinking of parallel races between NUMA hinting faults
and forks but this warning would also be triggered by a parallel reclaim
splitting a THP during a fork.  Remote the bogus warning.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: numa: defer TLB flush for THP migration as long as possible</title>
<updated>2013-12-19T03:04:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-19T01:08:46+00:00</published>
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THP migration can fail for a variety of reasons.  Avoid flushing the TLB
to deal with THP migration races until the copy is ready to start.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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THP migration can fail for a variety of reasons.  Avoid flushing the TLB
to deal with THP migration races until the copy is ready to start.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range</title>
<updated>2013-12-19T03:04:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rik van Riel</name>
<email>riel@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-19T01:08:44+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
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 &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: numa: avoid unnecessary disruption of NUMA hinting during migration</title>
<updated>2013-12-19T03:04:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-19T01:08:42+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
do_huge_pmd_numa_page() handles the case where there is parallel THP
migration.  However, by the time it is checked the NUMA hinting
information has already been disrupted.  This patch adds an earlier
check with some helpers.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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do_huge_pmd_numa_page() handles the case where there is parallel THP
migration.  However, by the time it is checked the NUMA hinting
information has already been disrupted.  This patch adds an earlier
check with some helpers.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: numa: clear numa hinting information on mprotect</title>
<updated>2013-12-19T03:04:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-19T01:08:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1667918b6483b12a6496bf54151b827b8235d7b1'/>
<id>1667918b6483b12a6496bf54151b827b8235d7b1</id>
<content type='text'>
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 &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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 &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: numa: ensure anon_vma is locked to prevent parallel THP splits</title>
<updated>2013-12-19T03:04:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-19T01:08:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c3a489cac38d43ea6dc4ac240473b44b46deecf7'/>
<id>c3a489cac38d43ea6dc4ac240473b44b46deecf7</id>
<content type='text'>
The anon_vma lock prevents parallel THP splits and any associated
complexity that arises when handling splits during THP migration.  This
patch checks if the lock was successfully acquired and bails from THP
migration if it failed for any reason.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The anon_vma lock prevents parallel THP splits and any associated
complexity that arises when handling splits during THP migration.  This
patch checks if the lock was successfully acquired and bails from THP
migration if it failed for any reason.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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