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<title>mm/rmap: Fix anon_vma-&gt;degree ambiguity leading to double-reuse</title>
<updated>2022-09-05T08:23:58+00:00</updated>
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commit 2555283eb40df89945557273121e9393ef9b542b upstream.

anon_vma-&gt;degree tracks the combined number of child anon_vmas and VMAs
that use the anon_vma as their -&gt;anon_vma.

anon_vma_clone() then assumes that for any anon_vma attached to
src-&gt;anon_vma_chain other than src-&gt;anon_vma, it is impossible for it to
be a leaf node of the VMA tree, meaning that for such VMAs -&gt;degree is
elevated by 1 because of a child anon_vma, meaning that if -&gt;degree
equals 1 there are no VMAs that use the anon_vma as their -&gt;anon_vma.

This assumption is wrong because the -&gt;degree optimization leads to leaf
nodes being abandoned on anon_vma_clone() - an existing anon_vma is
reused and no new parent-child relationship is created.  So it is
possible to reuse an anon_vma for one VMA while it is still tied to
another VMA.

This is an issue because is_mergeable_anon_vma() and its callers assume
that if two VMAs have the same -&gt;anon_vma, the list of anon_vmas
attached to the VMAs is guaranteed to be the same.  When this assumption
is violated, vma_merge() can merge pages into a VMA that is not attached
to the corresponding anon_vma, leading to dangling page-&gt;mapping
pointers that will be dereferenced during rmap walks.

Fix it by separately tracking the number of child anon_vmas and the
number of VMAs using the anon_vma as their -&gt;anon_vma.

Fixes: 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[manually fixed up different indentation in stable]
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2555283eb40df89945557273121e9393ef9b542b upstream.

anon_vma-&gt;degree tracks the combined number of child anon_vmas and VMAs
that use the anon_vma as their -&gt;anon_vma.

anon_vma_clone() then assumes that for any anon_vma attached to
src-&gt;anon_vma_chain other than src-&gt;anon_vma, it is impossible for it to
be a leaf node of the VMA tree, meaning that for such VMAs -&gt;degree is
elevated by 1 because of a child anon_vma, meaning that if -&gt;degree
equals 1 there are no VMAs that use the anon_vma as their -&gt;anon_vma.

This assumption is wrong because the -&gt;degree optimization leads to leaf
nodes being abandoned on anon_vma_clone() - an existing anon_vma is
reused and no new parent-child relationship is created.  So it is
possible to reuse an anon_vma for one VMA while it is still tied to
another VMA.

This is an issue because is_mergeable_anon_vma() and its callers assume
that if two VMAs have the same -&gt;anon_vma, the list of anon_vmas
attached to the VMAs is guaranteed to be the same.  When this assumption
is violated, vma_merge() can merge pages into a VMA that is not attached
to the corresponding anon_vma, leading to dangling page-&gt;mapping
pointers that will be dereferenced during rmap walks.

Fix it by separately tracking the number of child anon_vmas and the
number of VMAs using the anon_vma as their -&gt;anon_vma.

Fixes: 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[manually fixed up different indentation in stable]
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: fix race between MADV_FREE reclaim and blkdev direct IO read</title>
<updated>2022-04-20T07:06:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauricio Faria de Oliveira</name>
<email>mfo@canonical.com</email>
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<published>2022-04-07T19:14:32+00:00</published>
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commit 6c8e2a256915a223f6289f651d6b926cd7135c9e upstream.

Problem:
=======

Userspace might read the zero-page instead of actual data from a direct IO
read on a block device if the buffers have been called madvise(MADV_FREE)
on earlier (this is discussed below) due to a race between page reclaim on
MADV_FREE and blkdev direct IO read.

- Race condition:
  ==============

During page reclaim, the MADV_FREE page check in try_to_unmap_one() checks
if the page is not dirty, then discards its rmap PTE(s) (vs.  remap back
if the page is dirty).

However, after try_to_unmap_one() returns to shrink_page_list(), it might
keep the page _anyway_ if page_ref_freeze() fails (it expects exactly
_one_ page reference, from the isolation for page reclaim).

Well, blkdev_direct_IO() gets references for all pages, and on READ
operations it only sets them dirty _later_.

So, if MADV_FREE'd pages (i.e., not dirty) are used as buffers for direct
IO read from block devices, and page reclaim happens during
__blkdev_direct_IO[_simple]() exactly AFTER bio_iov_iter_get_pages()
returns, but BEFORE the pages are set dirty, the situation happens.

The direct IO read eventually completes.  Now, when userspace reads the
buffers, the PTE is no longer there and the page fault handler
do_anonymous_page() services that with the zero-page, NOT the data!

A synthetic reproducer is provided.

- Page faults:
  ===========

If page reclaim happens BEFORE bio_iov_iter_get_pages() the issue doesn't
happen, because that faults-in all pages as writeable, so
do_anonymous_page() sets up a new page/rmap/PTE, and that is used by
direct IO.  The userspace reads don't fault as the PTE is there (thus
zero-page is not used/setup).

But if page reclaim happens AFTER it / BEFORE setting pages dirty, the PTE
is no longer there; the subsequent page faults can't help:

The data-read from the block device probably won't generate faults due to
DMA (no MMU) but even in the case it wouldn't use DMA, that happens on
different virtual addresses (not user-mapped addresses) because `struct
bio_vec` stores `struct page` to figure addresses out (which are different
from user-mapped addresses) for the read.

Thus userspace reads (to user-mapped addresses) still fault, then
do_anonymous_page() gets another `struct page` that would address/ map to
other memory than the `struct page` used by `struct bio_vec` for the read.
(The original `struct page` is not available, since it wasn't freed, as
page_ref_freeze() failed due to more page refs.  And even if it were
available, its data cannot be trusted anymore.)

Solution:
========

One solution is to check for the expected page reference count in
try_to_unmap_one().

There should be one reference from the isolation (that is also checked in
shrink_page_list() with page_ref_freeze()) plus one or more references
from page mapping(s) (put in discard: label).  Further references mean
that rmap/PTE cannot be unmapped/nuked.

(Note: there might be more than one reference from mapping due to
fork()/clone() without CLONE_VM, which use the same `struct page` for
references, until the copy-on-write page gets copied.)

So, additional page references (e.g., from direct IO read) now prevent the
rmap/PTE from being unmapped/dropped; similarly to the page is not freed
per shrink_page_list()/page_ref_freeze()).

- Races and Barriers:
  ==================

The new check in try_to_unmap_one() should be safe in races with
bio_iov_iter_get_pages() in get_user_pages() fast and slow paths, as it's
done under the PTE lock.

The fast path doesn't take the lock, but it checks if the PTE has changed
and if so, it drops the reference and leaves the page for the slow path
(which does take that lock).

The fast path requires synchronization w/ full memory barrier: it writes
the page reference count first then it reads the PTE later, while
try_to_unmap() writes PTE first then it reads page refcount.

And a second barrier is needed, as the page dirty flag should not be read
before the page reference count (as in __remove_mapping()).  (This can be
a load memory barrier only; no writes are involved.)

Call stack/comments:

- try_to_unmap_one()
  - page_vma_mapped_walk()
    - map_pte()			# see pte_offset_map_lock():
        pte_offset_map()
        spin_lock()

  - ptep_get_and_clear()	# write PTE
  - smp_mb()			# (new barrier) GUP fast path
  - page_ref_count()		# (new check) read refcount

  - page_vma_mapped_walk_done()	# see pte_unmap_unlock():
      pte_unmap()
      spin_unlock()

- bio_iov_iter_get_pages()
  - __bio_iov_iter_get_pages()
    - iov_iter_get_pages()
      - get_user_pages_fast()
        - internal_get_user_pages_fast()

          # fast path
          - lockless_pages_from_mm()
            - gup_{pgd,p4d,pud,pmd,pte}_range()
                ptep = pte_offset_map()		# not _lock()
                pte = ptep_get_lockless(ptep)

                page = pte_page(pte)
                try_grab_compound_head(page)	# inc refcount
                                            	# (RMW/barrier
                                             	#  on success)

                if (pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep)) # read PTE
                        put_compound_head(page) # dec refcount
                        			# go slow path

          # slow path
          - __gup_longterm_unlocked()
            - get_user_pages_unlocked()
              - __get_user_pages_locked()
                - __get_user_pages()
                  - follow_{page,p4d,pud,pmd}_mask()
                    - follow_page_pte()
                        ptep = pte_offset_map_lock()
                        pte = *ptep
                        page = vm_normal_page(pte)
                        try_grab_page(page)	# inc refcount
                        pte_unmap_unlock()

- Huge Pages:
  ==========

Regarding transparent hugepages, that logic shouldn't change, as MADV_FREE
(aka lazyfree) pages are PageAnon() &amp;&amp; !PageSwapBacked()
(madvise_free_pte_range() -&gt; mark_page_lazyfree() -&gt; lru_lazyfree_fn())
thus should reach shrink_page_list() -&gt; split_huge_page_to_list() before
try_to_unmap[_one](), so it deals with normal pages only.

(And in case unlikely/TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD/split_huge_pmd_address() happens,
which should not or be rare, the page refcount should be greater than
mapcount: the head page is referenced by tail pages.  That also prevents
checking the head `page` then incorrectly call page_remove_rmap(subpage)
for a tail page, that isn't even in the shrink_page_list()'s page_list (an
effect of split huge pmd/pmvw), as it might happen today in this unlikely
scenario.)

MADV_FREE'd buffers:
===================

So, back to the "if MADV_FREE pages are used as buffers" note.  The case
is arguable, and subject to multiple interpretations.

The madvise(2) manual page on the MADV_FREE advice value says:

1) 'After a successful MADV_FREE ... data will be lost when
   the kernel frees the pages.'
2) 'the free operation will be canceled if the caller writes
   into the page' / 'subsequent writes ... will succeed and
   then [the] kernel cannot free those dirtied pages'
3) 'If there is no subsequent write, the kernel can free the
   pages at any time.'

Thoughts, questions, considerations... respectively:

1) Since the kernel didn't actually free the page (page_ref_freeze()
   failed), should the data not have been lost? (on userspace read.)
2) Should writes performed by the direct IO read be able to cancel
   the free operation?
   - Should the direct IO read be considered as 'the caller' too,
     as it's been requested by 'the caller'?
   - Should the bio technique to dirty pages on return to userspace
     (bio_check_pages_dirty() is called/used by __blkdev_direct_IO())
     be considered in another/special way here?
3) Should an upcoming write from a previously requested direct IO
   read be considered as a subsequent write, so the kernel should
   not free the pages? (as it's known at the time of page reclaim.)

And lastly:

Technically, the last point would seem a reasonable consideration and
balance, as the madvise(2) manual page apparently (and fairly) seem to
assume that 'writes' are memory access from the userspace process (not
explicitly considering writes from the kernel or its corner cases; again,
fairly)..  plus the kernel fix implementation for the corner case of the
largely 'non-atomic write' encompassed by a direct IO read operation, is
relatively simple; and it helps.

Reproducer:
==========

@ test.c (simplified, but works)

	#define _GNU_SOURCE
	#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;

	int main() {
		int fd, i;
		char *buf;

		fd = open(DEV, O_RDONLY | O_DIRECT);

		buf = mmap(NULL, BUF_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                	   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);

		for (i = 0; i &lt; BUF_SIZE; i += PAGE_SIZE)
			buf[i] = 1; // init to non-zero

		madvise(buf, BUF_SIZE, MADV_FREE);

		read(fd, buf, BUF_SIZE);

		for (i = 0; i &lt; BUF_SIZE; i += PAGE_SIZE)
			printf("%p: 0x%x\n", &amp;buf[i], buf[i]);

		return 0;
	}

@ block/fops.c (formerly fs/block_dev.c)

	+#include &lt;linux/swap.h&gt;
	...
	... __blkdev_direct_IO[_simple](...)
	{
	...
	+	if (!strcmp(current-&gt;comm, "good"))
	+		shrink_all_memory(ULONG_MAX);
	+
         	ret = bio_iov_iter_get_pages(...);
	+
	+	if (!strcmp(current-&gt;comm, "bad"))
	+		shrink_all_memory(ULONG_MAX);
	...
	}

@ shell

        # NUM_PAGES=4
        # PAGE_SIZE=$(getconf PAGE_SIZE)

        # yes | dd of=test.img bs=${PAGE_SIZE} count=${NUM_PAGES}
        # DEV=$(losetup -f --show test.img)

        # gcc -DDEV=\"$DEV\" \
              -DBUF_SIZE=$((PAGE_SIZE * NUM_PAGES)) \
              -DPAGE_SIZE=${PAGE_SIZE} \
               test.c -o test

        # od -tx1 $DEV
        0000000 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a
        *
        0040000

        # mv test good
        # ./good
        0x7f7c10418000: 0x79
        0x7f7c10419000: 0x79
        0x7f7c1041a000: 0x79
        0x7f7c1041b000: 0x79

        # mv good bad
        # ./bad
        0x7fa1b8050000: 0x0
        0x7fa1b8051000: 0x0
        0x7fa1b8052000: 0x0
        0x7fa1b8053000: 0x0

Note: the issue is consistent on v5.17-rc3, but it's intermittent with the
support of MADV_FREE on v4.5 (60%-70% error; needs swap).  [wrap
do_direct_IO() in do_blockdev_direct_IO() @ fs/direct-io.c].

- v5.17-rc3:

        # for i in {1..1000}; do ./good; done \
            | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c
           4000  0x79

        # mv good bad
        # for i in {1..1000}; do ./bad; done \
            | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c
           4000  0x0

        # free | grep Swap
        Swap:             0           0           0

- v4.5:

        # for i in {1..1000}; do ./good; done \
            | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c
           4000  0x79

        # mv good bad
        # for i in {1..1000}; do ./bad; done \
            | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c
           2702  0x0
           1298  0x79

        # swapoff -av
        swapoff /swap

        # for i in {1..1000}; do ./bad; done \
            | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c
           4000  0x79

Ceph/TCMalloc:
=============

For documentation purposes, the use case driving the analysis/fix is Ceph
on Ubuntu 18.04, as the TCMalloc library there still uses MADV_FREE to
release unused memory to the system from the mmap'ed page heap (might be
committed back/used again; it's not munmap'ed.) - PageHeap::DecommitSpan()
-&gt; TCMalloc_SystemRelease() -&gt; madvise() - PageHeap::CommitSpan() -&gt;
TCMalloc_SystemCommit() -&gt; do nothing.

Note: TCMalloc switched back to MADV_DONTNEED a few commits after the
release in Ubuntu 18.04 (google-perftools/gperftools 2.5), so the issue
just 'disappeared' on Ceph on later Ubuntu releases but is still present
in the kernel, and can be hit by other use cases.

The observed issue seems to be the old Ceph bug #22464 [1], where checksum
mismatches are observed (and instrumentation with buffer dumps shows
zero-pages read from mmap'ed/MADV_FREE'd page ranges).

The issue in Ceph was reasonably deemed a kernel bug (comment #50) and
mostly worked around with a retry mechanism, but other parts of Ceph could
still hit that (rocksdb).  Anyway, it's less likely to be hit again as
TCMalloc switched out of MADV_FREE by default.

(Some kernel versions/reports from the Ceph bug, and relation with
the MADV_FREE introduction/changes; TCMalloc versions not checked.)
- 4.4 good
- 4.5 (madv_free: introduction)
- 4.9 bad
- 4.10 good? maybe a swapless system
- 4.12 (madv_free: no longer free instantly on swapless systems)
- 4.13 bad

[1] https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/22464

Thanks:
======

Several people contributed to analysis/discussions/tests/reproducers in
the first stages when drilling down on ceph/tcmalloc/linux kernel:

- Dan Hill
- Dan Streetman
- Dongdong Tao
- Gavin Guo
- Gerald Yang
- Heitor Alves de Siqueira
- Ioanna Alifieraki
- Jay Vosburgh
- Matthew Ruffell
- Ponnuvel Palaniyappan

Reviews, suggestions, corrections, comments:

- Minchan Kim
- Yu Zhao
- Huang, Ying
- John Hubbard
- Christoph Hellwig

[mfo@canonical.com: v4]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220209202659.183418-1-mfo@canonical.comLink: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220131230255.789059-1-mfo@canonical.com

Fixes: 802a3a92ad7a ("mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages")
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mfo@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Hill &lt;daniel.hill@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Streetman &lt;dan.streetman@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Dongdong Tao &lt;dongdong.tao@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Gavin Guo &lt;gavin.guo@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Gerald Yang &lt;gerald.yang@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Heitor Alves de Siqueira &lt;halves@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Ioanna Alifieraki &lt;ioanna-maria.alifieraki@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jay.vosburgh@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Ruffell &lt;matthew.ruffell@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Ponnuvel Palaniyappan &lt;ponnuvel.palaniyappan@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[mfo: backport: replace folio/test_flag with page/flag equivalents;
 different conditional needed: from PageSwapBacked() to TTU_LZFREE;
 real Fixes: 854e9ed09ded ("mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE)") in v4.]
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mfo@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit 6c8e2a256915a223f6289f651d6b926cd7135c9e upstream.

Problem:
=======

Userspace might read the zero-page instead of actual data from a direct IO
read on a block device if the buffers have been called madvise(MADV_FREE)
on earlier (this is discussed below) due to a race between page reclaim on
MADV_FREE and blkdev direct IO read.

- Race condition:
  ==============

During page reclaim, the MADV_FREE page check in try_to_unmap_one() checks
if the page is not dirty, then discards its rmap PTE(s) (vs.  remap back
if the page is dirty).

However, after try_to_unmap_one() returns to shrink_page_list(), it might
keep the page _anyway_ if page_ref_freeze() fails (it expects exactly
_one_ page reference, from the isolation for page reclaim).

Well, blkdev_direct_IO() gets references for all pages, and on READ
operations it only sets them dirty _later_.

So, if MADV_FREE'd pages (i.e., not dirty) are used as buffers for direct
IO read from block devices, and page reclaim happens during
__blkdev_direct_IO[_simple]() exactly AFTER bio_iov_iter_get_pages()
returns, but BEFORE the pages are set dirty, the situation happens.

The direct IO read eventually completes.  Now, when userspace reads the
buffers, the PTE is no longer there and the page fault handler
do_anonymous_page() services that with the zero-page, NOT the data!

A synthetic reproducer is provided.

- Page faults:
  ===========

If page reclaim happens BEFORE bio_iov_iter_get_pages() the issue doesn't
happen, because that faults-in all pages as writeable, so
do_anonymous_page() sets up a new page/rmap/PTE, and that is used by
direct IO.  The userspace reads don't fault as the PTE is there (thus
zero-page is not used/setup).

But if page reclaim happens AFTER it / BEFORE setting pages dirty, the PTE
is no longer there; the subsequent page faults can't help:

The data-read from the block device probably won't generate faults due to
DMA (no MMU) but even in the case it wouldn't use DMA, that happens on
different virtual addresses (not user-mapped addresses) because `struct
bio_vec` stores `struct page` to figure addresses out (which are different
from user-mapped addresses) for the read.

Thus userspace reads (to user-mapped addresses) still fault, then
do_anonymous_page() gets another `struct page` that would address/ map to
other memory than the `struct page` used by `struct bio_vec` for the read.
(The original `struct page` is not available, since it wasn't freed, as
page_ref_freeze() failed due to more page refs.  And even if it were
available, its data cannot be trusted anymore.)

Solution:
========

One solution is to check for the expected page reference count in
try_to_unmap_one().

There should be one reference from the isolation (that is also checked in
shrink_page_list() with page_ref_freeze()) plus one or more references
from page mapping(s) (put in discard: label).  Further references mean
that rmap/PTE cannot be unmapped/nuked.

(Note: there might be more than one reference from mapping due to
fork()/clone() without CLONE_VM, which use the same `struct page` for
references, until the copy-on-write page gets copied.)

So, additional page references (e.g., from direct IO read) now prevent the
rmap/PTE from being unmapped/dropped; similarly to the page is not freed
per shrink_page_list()/page_ref_freeze()).

- Races and Barriers:
  ==================

The new check in try_to_unmap_one() should be safe in races with
bio_iov_iter_get_pages() in get_user_pages() fast and slow paths, as it's
done under the PTE lock.

The fast path doesn't take the lock, but it checks if the PTE has changed
and if so, it drops the reference and leaves the page for the slow path
(which does take that lock).

The fast path requires synchronization w/ full memory barrier: it writes
the page reference count first then it reads the PTE later, while
try_to_unmap() writes PTE first then it reads page refcount.

And a second barrier is needed, as the page dirty flag should not be read
before the page reference count (as in __remove_mapping()).  (This can be
a load memory barrier only; no writes are involved.)

Call stack/comments:

- try_to_unmap_one()
  - page_vma_mapped_walk()
    - map_pte()			# see pte_offset_map_lock():
        pte_offset_map()
        spin_lock()

  - ptep_get_and_clear()	# write PTE
  - smp_mb()			# (new barrier) GUP fast path
  - page_ref_count()		# (new check) read refcount

  - page_vma_mapped_walk_done()	# see pte_unmap_unlock():
      pte_unmap()
      spin_unlock()

- bio_iov_iter_get_pages()
  - __bio_iov_iter_get_pages()
    - iov_iter_get_pages()
      - get_user_pages_fast()
        - internal_get_user_pages_fast()

          # fast path
          - lockless_pages_from_mm()
            - gup_{pgd,p4d,pud,pmd,pte}_range()
                ptep = pte_offset_map()		# not _lock()
                pte = ptep_get_lockless(ptep)

                page = pte_page(pte)
                try_grab_compound_head(page)	# inc refcount
                                            	# (RMW/barrier
                                             	#  on success)

                if (pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep)) # read PTE
                        put_compound_head(page) # dec refcount
                        			# go slow path

          # slow path
          - __gup_longterm_unlocked()
            - get_user_pages_unlocked()
              - __get_user_pages_locked()
                - __get_user_pages()
                  - follow_{page,p4d,pud,pmd}_mask()
                    - follow_page_pte()
                        ptep = pte_offset_map_lock()
                        pte = *ptep
                        page = vm_normal_page(pte)
                        try_grab_page(page)	# inc refcount
                        pte_unmap_unlock()

- Huge Pages:
  ==========

Regarding transparent hugepages, that logic shouldn't change, as MADV_FREE
(aka lazyfree) pages are PageAnon() &amp;&amp; !PageSwapBacked()
(madvise_free_pte_range() -&gt; mark_page_lazyfree() -&gt; lru_lazyfree_fn())
thus should reach shrink_page_list() -&gt; split_huge_page_to_list() before
try_to_unmap[_one](), so it deals with normal pages only.

(And in case unlikely/TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD/split_huge_pmd_address() happens,
which should not or be rare, the page refcount should be greater than
mapcount: the head page is referenced by tail pages.  That also prevents
checking the head `page` then incorrectly call page_remove_rmap(subpage)
for a tail page, that isn't even in the shrink_page_list()'s page_list (an
effect of split huge pmd/pmvw), as it might happen today in this unlikely
scenario.)

MADV_FREE'd buffers:
===================

So, back to the "if MADV_FREE pages are used as buffers" note.  The case
is arguable, and subject to multiple interpretations.

The madvise(2) manual page on the MADV_FREE advice value says:

1) 'After a successful MADV_FREE ... data will be lost when
   the kernel frees the pages.'
2) 'the free operation will be canceled if the caller writes
   into the page' / 'subsequent writes ... will succeed and
   then [the] kernel cannot free those dirtied pages'
3) 'If there is no subsequent write, the kernel can free the
   pages at any time.'

Thoughts, questions, considerations... respectively:

1) Since the kernel didn't actually free the page (page_ref_freeze()
   failed), should the data not have been lost? (on userspace read.)
2) Should writes performed by the direct IO read be able to cancel
   the free operation?
   - Should the direct IO read be considered as 'the caller' too,
     as it's been requested by 'the caller'?
   - Should the bio technique to dirty pages on return to userspace
     (bio_check_pages_dirty() is called/used by __blkdev_direct_IO())
     be considered in another/special way here?
3) Should an upcoming write from a previously requested direct IO
   read be considered as a subsequent write, so the kernel should
   not free the pages? (as it's known at the time of page reclaim.)

And lastly:

Technically, the last point would seem a reasonable consideration and
balance, as the madvise(2) manual page apparently (and fairly) seem to
assume that 'writes' are memory access from the userspace process (not
explicitly considering writes from the kernel or its corner cases; again,
fairly)..  plus the kernel fix implementation for the corner case of the
largely 'non-atomic write' encompassed by a direct IO read operation, is
relatively simple; and it helps.

Reproducer:
==========

@ test.c (simplified, but works)

	#define _GNU_SOURCE
	#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;

	int main() {
		int fd, i;
		char *buf;

		fd = open(DEV, O_RDONLY | O_DIRECT);

		buf = mmap(NULL, BUF_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                	   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);

		for (i = 0; i &lt; BUF_SIZE; i += PAGE_SIZE)
			buf[i] = 1; // init to non-zero

		madvise(buf, BUF_SIZE, MADV_FREE);

		read(fd, buf, BUF_SIZE);

		for (i = 0; i &lt; BUF_SIZE; i += PAGE_SIZE)
			printf("%p: 0x%x\n", &amp;buf[i], buf[i]);

		return 0;
	}

@ block/fops.c (formerly fs/block_dev.c)

	+#include &lt;linux/swap.h&gt;
	...
	... __blkdev_direct_IO[_simple](...)
	{
	...
	+	if (!strcmp(current-&gt;comm, "good"))
	+		shrink_all_memory(ULONG_MAX);
	+
         	ret = bio_iov_iter_get_pages(...);
	+
	+	if (!strcmp(current-&gt;comm, "bad"))
	+		shrink_all_memory(ULONG_MAX);
	...
	}

@ shell

        # NUM_PAGES=4
        # PAGE_SIZE=$(getconf PAGE_SIZE)

        # yes | dd of=test.img bs=${PAGE_SIZE} count=${NUM_PAGES}
        # DEV=$(losetup -f --show test.img)

        # gcc -DDEV=\"$DEV\" \
              -DBUF_SIZE=$((PAGE_SIZE * NUM_PAGES)) \
              -DPAGE_SIZE=${PAGE_SIZE} \
               test.c -o test

        # od -tx1 $DEV
        0000000 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a 79 0a
        *
        0040000

        # mv test good
        # ./good
        0x7f7c10418000: 0x79
        0x7f7c10419000: 0x79
        0x7f7c1041a000: 0x79
        0x7f7c1041b000: 0x79

        # mv good bad
        # ./bad
        0x7fa1b8050000: 0x0
        0x7fa1b8051000: 0x0
        0x7fa1b8052000: 0x0
        0x7fa1b8053000: 0x0

Note: the issue is consistent on v5.17-rc3, but it's intermittent with the
support of MADV_FREE on v4.5 (60%-70% error; needs swap).  [wrap
do_direct_IO() in do_blockdev_direct_IO() @ fs/direct-io.c].

- v5.17-rc3:

        # for i in {1..1000}; do ./good; done \
            | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c
           4000  0x79

        # mv good bad
        # for i in {1..1000}; do ./bad; done \
            | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c
           4000  0x0

        # free | grep Swap
        Swap:             0           0           0

- v4.5:

        # for i in {1..1000}; do ./good; done \
            | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c
           4000  0x79

        # mv good bad
        # for i in {1..1000}; do ./bad; done \
            | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c
           2702  0x0
           1298  0x79

        # swapoff -av
        swapoff /swap

        # for i in {1..1000}; do ./bad; done \
            | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq -c
           4000  0x79

Ceph/TCMalloc:
=============

For documentation purposes, the use case driving the analysis/fix is Ceph
on Ubuntu 18.04, as the TCMalloc library there still uses MADV_FREE to
release unused memory to the system from the mmap'ed page heap (might be
committed back/used again; it's not munmap'ed.) - PageHeap::DecommitSpan()
-&gt; TCMalloc_SystemRelease() -&gt; madvise() - PageHeap::CommitSpan() -&gt;
TCMalloc_SystemCommit() -&gt; do nothing.

Note: TCMalloc switched back to MADV_DONTNEED a few commits after the
release in Ubuntu 18.04 (google-perftools/gperftools 2.5), so the issue
just 'disappeared' on Ceph on later Ubuntu releases but is still present
in the kernel, and can be hit by other use cases.

The observed issue seems to be the old Ceph bug #22464 [1], where checksum
mismatches are observed (and instrumentation with buffer dumps shows
zero-pages read from mmap'ed/MADV_FREE'd page ranges).

The issue in Ceph was reasonably deemed a kernel bug (comment #50) and
mostly worked around with a retry mechanism, but other parts of Ceph could
still hit that (rocksdb).  Anyway, it's less likely to be hit again as
TCMalloc switched out of MADV_FREE by default.

(Some kernel versions/reports from the Ceph bug, and relation with
the MADV_FREE introduction/changes; TCMalloc versions not checked.)
- 4.4 good
- 4.5 (madv_free: introduction)
- 4.9 bad
- 4.10 good? maybe a swapless system
- 4.12 (madv_free: no longer free instantly on swapless systems)
- 4.13 bad

[1] https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/22464

Thanks:
======

Several people contributed to analysis/discussions/tests/reproducers in
the first stages when drilling down on ceph/tcmalloc/linux kernel:

- Dan Hill
- Dan Streetman
- Dongdong Tao
- Gavin Guo
- Gerald Yang
- Heitor Alves de Siqueira
- Ioanna Alifieraki
- Jay Vosburgh
- Matthew Ruffell
- Ponnuvel Palaniyappan

Reviews, suggestions, corrections, comments:

- Minchan Kim
- Yu Zhao
- Huang, Ying
- John Hubbard
- Christoph Hellwig

[mfo@canonical.com: v4]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220209202659.183418-1-mfo@canonical.comLink: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220131230255.789059-1-mfo@canonical.com

Fixes: 802a3a92ad7a ("mm: reclaim MADV_FREE pages")
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mfo@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Shi &lt;shy828301@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Hill &lt;daniel.hill@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Streetman &lt;dan.streetman@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Dongdong Tao &lt;dongdong.tao@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Gavin Guo &lt;gavin.guo@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Gerald Yang &lt;gerald.yang@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Heitor Alves de Siqueira &lt;halves@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Ioanna Alifieraki &lt;ioanna-maria.alifieraki@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Jay Vosburgh &lt;jay.vosburgh@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Ruffell &lt;matthew.ruffell@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Ponnuvel Palaniyappan &lt;ponnuvel.palaniyappan@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[mfo: backport: replace folio/test_flag with page/flag equivalents;
 different conditional needed: from PageSwapBacked() to TTU_LZFREE;
 real Fixes: 854e9ed09ded ("mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE)") in v4.]
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mfo@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: migration: fix migration of huge PMD shared pages</title>
<updated>2018-11-21T08:26:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Kravetz</name>
<email>mike.kravetz@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-05T22:51:29+00:00</published>
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commit 017b1660df89f5fb4bfe66c34e35f7d2031100c7 upstream.

The page migration code employs try_to_unmap() to try and unmap the source
page.  This is accomplished by using rmap_walk to find all vmas where the
page is mapped.  This search stops when page mapcount is zero.  For shared
PMD huge pages, the page map count is always 1 no matter the number of
mappings.  Shared mappings are tracked via the reference count of the PMD
page.  Therefore, try_to_unmap stops prematurely and does not completely
unmap all mappings of the source page.

This problem can result is data corruption as writes to the original
source page can happen after contents of the page are copied to the target
page.  Hence, data is lost.

This problem was originally seen as DB corruption of shared global areas
after a huge page was soft offlined due to ECC memory errors.  DB
developers noticed they could reproduce the issue by (hotplug) offlining
memory used to back huge pages.  A simple testcase can reproduce the
problem by creating a shared PMD mapping (note that this must be at least
PUD_SIZE in size and PUD_SIZE aligned (1GB on x86)), and using
migrate_pages() to migrate process pages between nodes while continually
writing to the huge pages being migrated.

To fix, have the try_to_unmap_one routine check for huge PMD sharing by
calling huge_pmd_unshare for hugetlbfs huge pages.  If it is a shared
mapping it will be 'unshared' which removes the page table entry and drops
the reference on the PMD page.  After this, flush caches and TLB.

mmu notifiers are called before locking page tables, but we can not be
sure of PMD sharing until page tables are locked.  Therefore, check for
the possibility of PMD sharing before locking so that notifiers can
prepare for the worst possible case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180823205917.16297-2-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
[mike.kravetz@oracle.com: make _range_in_vma() a static inline]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6063f215-a5c8-2f0c-465a-2c515ddc952d@oracle.com
Fixes: 39dde65c9940 ("shared page table for hugetlb page")
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 017b1660df89f5fb4bfe66c34e35f7d2031100c7 upstream.

The page migration code employs try_to_unmap() to try and unmap the source
page.  This is accomplished by using rmap_walk to find all vmas where the
page is mapped.  This search stops when page mapcount is zero.  For shared
PMD huge pages, the page map count is always 1 no matter the number of
mappings.  Shared mappings are tracked via the reference count of the PMD
page.  Therefore, try_to_unmap stops prematurely and does not completely
unmap all mappings of the source page.

This problem can result is data corruption as writes to the original
source page can happen after contents of the page are copied to the target
page.  Hence, data is lost.

This problem was originally seen as DB corruption of shared global areas
after a huge page was soft offlined due to ECC memory errors.  DB
developers noticed they could reproduce the issue by (hotplug) offlining
memory used to back huge pages.  A simple testcase can reproduce the
problem by creating a shared PMD mapping (note that this must be at least
PUD_SIZE in size and PUD_SIZE aligned (1GB on x86)), and using
migrate_pages() to migrate process pages between nodes while continually
writing to the huge pages being migrated.

To fix, have the try_to_unmap_one routine check for huge PMD sharing by
calling huge_pmd_unshare for hugetlbfs huge pages.  If it is a shared
mapping it will be 'unshared' which removes the page table entry and drops
the reference on the PMD page.  After this, flush caches and TLB.

mmu notifiers are called before locking page tables, but we can not be
sure of PMD sharing until page tables are locked.  Therefore, check for
the possibility of PMD sharing before locking so that notifiers can
prepare for the worst possible case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180823205917.16297-2-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
[mike.kravetz@oracle.com: make _range_in_vma() a static inline]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6063f215-a5c8-2f0c-465a-2c515ddc952d@oracle.com
Fixes: 39dde65c9940 ("shared page table for hugetlb page")
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm, mprotect: flush TLB if potentially racing with a parallel reclaim leaving stale TLB entries</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:49:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-02T20:31:52+00:00</published>
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commit 3ea277194daaeaa84ce75180ec7c7a2075027a68 upstream.

Nadav Amit identified a theoritical race between page reclaim and
mprotect due to TLB flushes being batched outside of the PTL being held.

He described the race as follows:

        CPU0                            CPU1
        ----                            ----
                                        user accesses memory using RW PTE
                                        [PTE now cached in TLB]
        try_to_unmap_one()
        ==&gt; ptep_get_and_clear()
        ==&gt; set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending()
                                        mprotect(addr, PROT_READ)
                                        ==&gt; change_pte_range()
                                        ==&gt; [ PTE non-present - no flush ]

                                        user writes using cached RW PTE
        ...

        try_to_unmap_flush()

The same type of race exists for reads when protecting for PROT_NONE and
also exists for operations that can leave an old TLB entry behind such
as munmap, mremap and madvise.

For some operations like mprotect, it's not necessarily a data integrity
issue but it is a correctness issue as there is a window where an
mprotect that limits access still allows access.  For munmap, it's
potentially a data integrity issue although the race is massive as an
munmap, mmap and return to userspace must all complete between the
window when reclaim drops the PTL and flushes the TLB.  However, it's
theoritically possible so handle this issue by flushing the mm if
reclaim is potentially currently batching TLB flushes.

Other instances where a flush is required for a present pte should be ok
as either the page lock is held preventing parallel reclaim or a page
reference count is elevated preventing a parallel free leading to
corruption.  In the case of page_mkclean there isn't an obvious path
that userspace could take advantage of without using the operations that
are guarded by this patch.  Other users such as gup as a race with
reclaim looks just at PTEs.  huge page variants should be ok as they
don't race with reclaim.  mincore only looks at PTEs.  userfault also
should be ok as if a parallel reclaim takes place, it will either fault
the page back in or read some of the data before the flush occurs
triggering a fault.

Note that a variant of this patch was acked by Andy Lutomirski but this
was for the x86 parts on top of his PCID work which didn't make the 4.13
merge window as expected.  His ack is dropped from this version and
there will be a follow-on patch on top of PCID that will include his
ack.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170717155523.emckq2esjro6hf3z@suse.de
Reported-by: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3ea277194daaeaa84ce75180ec7c7a2075027a68 upstream.

Nadav Amit identified a theoritical race between page reclaim and
mprotect due to TLB flushes being batched outside of the PTL being held.

He described the race as follows:

        CPU0                            CPU1
        ----                            ----
                                        user accesses memory using RW PTE
                                        [PTE now cached in TLB]
        try_to_unmap_one()
        ==&gt; ptep_get_and_clear()
        ==&gt; set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending()
                                        mprotect(addr, PROT_READ)
                                        ==&gt; change_pte_range()
                                        ==&gt; [ PTE non-present - no flush ]

                                        user writes using cached RW PTE
        ...

        try_to_unmap_flush()

The same type of race exists for reads when protecting for PROT_NONE and
also exists for operations that can leave an old TLB entry behind such
as munmap, mremap and madvise.

For some operations like mprotect, it's not necessarily a data integrity
issue but it is a correctness issue as there is a window where an
mprotect that limits access still allows access.  For munmap, it's
potentially a data integrity issue although the race is massive as an
munmap, mmap and return to userspace must all complete between the
window when reclaim drops the PTL and flushes the TLB.  However, it's
theoritically possible so handle this issue by flushing the mm if
reclaim is potentially currently batching TLB flushes.

Other instances where a flush is required for a present pte should be ok
as either the page lock is held preventing parallel reclaim or a page
reference count is elevated preventing a parallel free leading to
corruption.  In the case of page_mkclean there isn't an obvious path
that userspace could take advantage of without using the operations that
are guarded by this patch.  Other users such as gup as a race with
reclaim looks just at PTEs.  huge page variants should be ok as they
don't race with reclaim.  mincore only looks at PTEs.  userfault also
should be ok as if a parallel reclaim takes place, it will either fault
the page back in or read some of the data before the flush occurs
triggering a fault.

Note that a variant of this patch was acked by Andy Lutomirski but this
was for the x86 parts on top of his PCID work which didn't make the 4.13
merge window as expected.  His ack is dropped from this version and
there will be a follow-on patch on top of PCID that will include his
ack.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170717155523.emckq2esjro6hf3z@suse.de
Reported-by: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: rmap: fix huge file mmap accounting in the memcg stats</title>
<updated>2017-04-08T07:30:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-31T22:11:50+00:00</published>
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commit 553af430e7c981e6e8fa5007c5b7b5773acc63dd upstream.

Huge pages are accounted as single units in the memcg's "file_mapped"
counter.  Account the correct number of base pages, like we do in the
corresponding node counter.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170322005111.3156-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.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 553af430e7c981e6e8fa5007c5b7b5773acc63dd upstream.

Huge pages are accounted as single units in the memcg's "file_mapped"
counter.  Account the correct number of base pages, like we do in the
corresponding node counter.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170322005111.3156-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.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>
<entry>
<title>rmap: fix compound check logic in page_remove_file_rmap</title>
<updated>2016-08-10T23:40:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steve Capper</name>
<email>steve.capper@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-10T23:27:55+00:00</published>
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In page_remove_file_rmap(.) we have the following check:

  VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound &amp;&amp; !PageTransHuge(page), page);

This is meant to check for either HugeTLB pages or THP when a compound
page is passed in.

Unfortunately, if one disables CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE, then
PageTransHuge(.) will always return false, provoking BUGs when one runs
the libhugetlbfs test suite.

This patch replaces PageTransHuge(), with PageHead() which will work for
both HugeTLB and THP.

Fixes: dd78fedde4b9 ("rmap: support file thp")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470838217-5889-1-git-send-email-steve.capper@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Shijie &lt;shijie.huang@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.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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In page_remove_file_rmap(.) we have the following check:

  VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound &amp;&amp; !PageTransHuge(page), page);

This is meant to check for either HugeTLB pages or THP when a compound
page is passed in.

Unfortunately, if one disables CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE, then
PageTransHuge(.) will always return false, provoking BUGs when one runs
the libhugetlbfs test suite.

This patch replaces PageTransHuge(), with PageHead() which will work for
both HugeTLB and THP.

Fixes: dd78fedde4b9 ("rmap: support file thp")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470838217-5889-1-git-send-email-steve.capper@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Shijie &lt;shijie.huang@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, rmap: fix false positive VM_BUG() in page_add_file_rmap()</title>
<updated>2016-08-10T23:40:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-10T23:27:52+00:00</published>
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PageTransCompound() doesn't distinguish THP from from any other type of
compound pages.  This can lead to false-positive VM_BUG_ON() in
page_add_file_rmap() if called on compound page from a driver[1].

I think we can exclude such cases by checking if the page belong to a
mapping.

The VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() is downgraded to VM_WARN_ON_ONCE().  This path
should not cause any harm to non-THP page, but good to know if we step
on anything else.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c711e067-0bff-a6cb-3c37-04dfe77d2db1@redhat.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810161345.GA67522@black.fi.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@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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PageTransCompound() doesn't distinguish THP from from any other type of
compound pages.  This can lead to false-positive VM_BUG_ON() in
page_add_file_rmap() if called on compound page from a driver[1].

I think we can exclude such cases by checking if the page belong to a
mapping.

The VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() is downgraded to VM_WARN_ON_ONCE().  This path
should not cause any harm to non-THP page, but good to know if we step
on anything else.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c711e067-0bff-a6cb-3c37-04dfe77d2db1@redhat.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810161345.GA67522@black.fi.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@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: move most file-based accounting to the node</title>
<updated>2016-07-28T23:07:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-28T22:46:20+00:00</published>
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There are now a number of accounting oddities such as mapped file pages
being accounted for on the node while the total number of file pages are
accounted on the zone.  This can be coped with to some extent but it's
confusing so this patch moves the relevant file-based accounted.  Due to
throttling logic in the page allocator for reliable OOM detection, it is
still necessary to track dirty and writeback pages on a per-zone basis.

[mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING accounting]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468404004-5085-5-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-20-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.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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There are now a number of accounting oddities such as mapped file pages
being accounted for on the node while the total number of file pages are
accounted on the zone.  This can be coped with to some extent but it's
confusing so this patch moves the relevant file-based accounted.  Due to
throttling logic in the page allocator for reliable OOM detection, it is
still necessary to track dirty and writeback pages on a per-zone basis.

[mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING accounting]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468404004-5085-5-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-20-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED</title>
<updated>2016-07-28T23:07:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-28T22:46:17+00:00</published>
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NR_FILE_PAGES  is the number of        file pages.
NR_FILE_MAPPED is the number of mapped file pages.
NR_ANON_PAGES  is the number of mapped anon pages.

This is unhelpful naming as it's easy to confuse NR_FILE_MAPPED and
NR_ANON_PAGES for mapped pages.  This patch renames NR_ANON_PAGES so we
have

NR_FILE_PAGES  is the number of        file pages.
NR_FILE_MAPPED is the number of mapped file pages.
NR_ANON_MAPPED is the number of mapped anon pages.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-19-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.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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NR_FILE_PAGES  is the number of        file pages.
NR_FILE_MAPPED is the number of mapped file pages.
NR_ANON_PAGES  is the number of mapped anon pages.

This is unhelpful naming as it's easy to confuse NR_FILE_MAPPED and
NR_ANON_PAGES for mapped pages.  This patch renames NR_ANON_PAGES so we
have

NR_FILE_PAGES  is the number of        file pages.
NR_FILE_MAPPED is the number of mapped file pages.
NR_ANON_MAPPED is the number of mapped anon pages.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-19-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: move page mapped accounting to the node</title>
<updated>2016-07-28T23:07:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-28T22:46:14+00:00</published>
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Reclaim makes decisions based on the number of pages that are mapped but
it's mixing node and zone information.  Account NR_FILE_MAPPED and
NR_ANON_PAGES pages on the node.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-18-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.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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Reclaim makes decisions based on the number of pages that are mapped but
it's mixing node and zone information.  Account NR_FILE_MAPPED and
NR_ANON_PAGES pages on the node.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-18-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.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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