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<title>mm/pagewalk.c: fix walk_page_range() access of wrong PTEs</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:08:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen LinX</name>
<email>linx.z.chen@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-30T20:56:18+00:00</published>
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commit 3017f079efd6af199b0852b5c425364513db460e upstream.

When walk_page_range walk a memory map's page tables, it'll skip
VM_PFNMAP area, then variable 'next' will to assign to vma-&gt;vm_end, it
maybe larger than 'end'.  In next loop, 'addr' will be larger than
'next'.  Then in /proc/XXXX/pagemap file reading procedure, the 'addr'
will growing forever in pagemap_pte_range, pte_to_pagemap_entry will
access the wrong pte.

  BUG: Bad page map in process procrank  pte:8437526f pmd:785de067
  addr:9108d000 vm_flags:00200073 anon_vma:f0d99020 mapping:  (null) index:9108d
  CPU: 1 PID: 4974 Comm: procrank Tainted: G    B   W  O 3.10.1+ #1
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x16/0x18
    print_bad_pte+0x114/0x1b0
    vm_normal_page+0x56/0x60
    pagemap_pte_range+0x17a/0x1d0
    walk_page_range+0x19e/0x2c0
    pagemap_read+0x16e/0x200
    vfs_read+0x84/0x150
    SyS_read+0x4a/0x80
    syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Signed-off-by: Liu ShuoX &lt;shuox.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen LinX &lt;linx.z.chen@intel.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;
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 3017f079efd6af199b0852b5c425364513db460e upstream.

When walk_page_range walk a memory map's page tables, it'll skip
VM_PFNMAP area, then variable 'next' will to assign to vma-&gt;vm_end, it
maybe larger than 'end'.  In next loop, 'addr' will be larger than
'next'.  Then in /proc/XXXX/pagemap file reading procedure, the 'addr'
will growing forever in pagemap_pte_range, pte_to_pagemap_entry will
access the wrong pte.

  BUG: Bad page map in process procrank  pte:8437526f pmd:785de067
  addr:9108d000 vm_flags:00200073 anon_vma:f0d99020 mapping:  (null) index:9108d
  CPU: 1 PID: 4974 Comm: procrank Tainted: G    B   W  O 3.10.1+ #1
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x16/0x18
    print_bad_pte+0x114/0x1b0
    vm_normal_page+0x56/0x60
    pagemap_pte_range+0x17a/0x1d0
    walk_page_range+0x19e/0x2c0
    pagemap_read+0x16e/0x200
    vfs_read+0x84/0x150
    SyS_read+0x4a/0x80
    syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Signed-off-by: Liu ShuoX &lt;shuox.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen LinX &lt;linx.z.chen@intel.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;
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: Account for a THP NUMA hinting update as one PTE update</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:08:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T10:28:47+00:00</published>
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commit 0255d491848032f6c601b6410c3b8ebded3a37b1 upstream.

A THP PMD update is accounted for as 512 pages updated in vmstat.  This is
large difference when estimating the cost of automatic NUMA balancing and
can be misleading when comparing results that had collapsed versus split
THP. This patch addresses the accounting issue.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-10-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0255d491848032f6c601b6410c3b8ebded3a37b1 upstream.

A THP PMD update is accounted for as 512 pages updated in vmstat.  This is
large difference when estimating the cost of automatic NUMA balancing and
can be misleading when comparing results that had collapsed versus split
THP. This patch addresses the accounting issue.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-10-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: Close races between THP migration and PMD numa clearing</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:08:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T10:28:46+00:00</published>
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commit 3f926ab945b60a5824369d21add7710622a2eac0 upstream.

THP migration uses the page lock to guard against parallel allocations
but there are cases like this still open

  Task A					Task B
  ---------------------				---------------------
  do_huge_pmd_numa_page				do_huge_pmd_numa_page
  lock_page
  mpol_misplaced == -1
  unlock_page
  goto clear_pmdnuma
						lock_page
						mpol_misplaced == 2
						migrate_misplaced_transhuge
  pmd = pmd_mknonnuma
  set_pmd_at

During hours of testing, one crashed with weird errors and while I have
no direct evidence, I suspect something like the race above happened.
This patch extends the page lock to being held until the pmd_numa is
cleared to prevent migration starting in parallel while the pmd_numa is
being cleared. It also flushes the old pmd entry and orders pagetable
insertion before rmap insertion.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-9-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3f926ab945b60a5824369d21add7710622a2eac0 upstream.

THP migration uses the page lock to guard against parallel allocations
but there are cases like this still open

  Task A					Task B
  ---------------------				---------------------
  do_huge_pmd_numa_page				do_huge_pmd_numa_page
  lock_page
  mpol_misplaced == -1
  unlock_page
  goto clear_pmdnuma
						lock_page
						mpol_misplaced == 2
						migrate_misplaced_transhuge
  pmd = pmd_mknonnuma
  set_pmd_at

During hours of testing, one crashed with weird errors and while I have
no direct evidence, I suspect something like the race above happened.
This patch extends the page lock to being held until the pmd_numa is
cleared to prevent migration starting in parallel while the pmd_numa is
being cleared. It also flushes the old pmd entry and orders pagetable
insertion before rmap insertion.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-9-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: numa: Sanitize task_numa_fault() callsites</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:08:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T10:28:45+00:00</published>
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commit c61109e34f60f6e85bb43c5a1cd51c0e3db40847 upstream.

There are three callers of task_numa_fault():

 - do_huge_pmd_numa_page():
     Accounts against the current node, not the node where the
     page resides, unless we migrated, in which case it accounts
     against the node we migrated to.

 - do_numa_page():
     Accounts against the current node, not the node where the
     page resides, unless we migrated, in which case it accounts
     against the node we migrated to.

 - do_pmd_numa_page():
     Accounts not at all when the page isn't migrated, otherwise
     accounts against the node we migrated towards.

This seems wrong to me; all three sites should have the same
sementaics, furthermore we should accounts against where the page
really is, we already know where the task is.

So modify all three sites to always account; we did after all receive
the fault; and always account to where the page is after migration,
regardless of success.

They all still differ on when they clear the PTE/PMD; ideally that
would get sorted too.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-8-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c61109e34f60f6e85bb43c5a1cd51c0e3db40847 upstream.

There are three callers of task_numa_fault():

 - do_huge_pmd_numa_page():
     Accounts against the current node, not the node where the
     page resides, unless we migrated, in which case it accounts
     against the node we migrated to.

 - do_numa_page():
     Accounts against the current node, not the node where the
     page resides, unless we migrated, in which case it accounts
     against the node we migrated to.

 - do_pmd_numa_page():
     Accounts not at all when the page isn't migrated, otherwise
     accounts against the node we migrated towards.

This seems wrong to me; all three sites should have the same
sementaics, furthermore we should accounts against where the page
really is, we already know where the task is.

So modify all three sites to always account; we did after all receive
the fault; and always account to where the page is after migration,
regardless of success.

They all still differ on when they clear the PTE/PMD; ideally that
would get sorted too.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-8-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Prevent parallel splits during THP migration</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:08:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T10:28:44+00:00</published>
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commit 587fe586f44a48f9691001ba6c45b86c8e4ba21f upstream.

THP migrations are serialised by the page lock but on its own that does
not prevent THP splits. If the page is split during THP migration then
the pmd_same checks will prevent page table corruption but the unlock page
and other fix-ups potentially will cause corruption. This patch takes the
anon_vma lock to prevent parallel splits during migration.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-7-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 587fe586f44a48f9691001ba6c45b86c8e4ba21f upstream.

THP migrations are serialised by the page lock but on its own that does
not prevent THP splits. If the page is split during THP migration then
the pmd_same checks will prevent page table corruption but the unlock page
and other fix-ups potentially will cause corruption. This patch takes the
anon_vma lock to prevent parallel splits during migration.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-7-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Wait for THP migrations to complete during NUMA hinting faults</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:08:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T10:28:43+00:00</published>
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commit 42836f5f8baa33085f547098b74aa98991ee9216 upstream.

The locking for migrating THP is unusual. While normal page migration
prevents parallel accesses using a migration PTE, THP migration relies on
a combination of the page_table_lock, the page lock and the existance of
the NUMA hinting PTE to guarantee safety but there is a bug in the scheme.

If a THP page is currently being migrated and another thread traps a
fault on the same page it checks if the page is misplaced. If it is not,
then pmd_numa is cleared. The problem is that it checks if the page is
misplaced without holding the page lock meaning that the racing thread
can be migrating the THP when the second thread clears the NUMA bit
and faults a stale page.

This patch checks if the page is potentially being migrated and stalls
using the lock_page if it is potentially being migrated before checking
if the page is misplaced or not.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-6-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 42836f5f8baa33085f547098b74aa98991ee9216 upstream.

The locking for migrating THP is unusual. While normal page migration
prevents parallel accesses using a migration PTE, THP migration relies on
a combination of the page_table_lock, the page lock and the existance of
the NUMA hinting PTE to guarantee safety but there is a bug in the scheme.

If a THP page is currently being migrated and another thread traps a
fault on the same page it checks if the page is misplaced. If it is not,
then pmd_numa is cleared. The problem is that it checks if the page is
misplaced without holding the page lock meaning that the racing thread
can be migrating the THP when the second thread clears the NUMA bit
and faults a stale page.

This patch checks if the page is potentially being migrated and stalls
using the lock_page if it is potentially being migrated before checking
if the page is misplaced or not.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-6-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: numa: Do not account for a hinting fault if we raced</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:08:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-07T10:28:42+00:00</published>
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commit 1dd49bfa3465756b3ce72214b58a33e4afb67aa3 upstream.

If another task handled a hinting fault in parallel then do not double
account for it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-5-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1dd49bfa3465756b3ce72214b58a33e4afb67aa3 upstream.

If another task handled a hinting fault in parallel then do not double
account for it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-5-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: make generic_access_phys available for modules</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:08:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-07T11:02:52+00:00</published>
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commit 5a73633ef01cd8772defa6a3c34a588376a1df4c upstream.

In the next commit this function will be used in the uio subsystem

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5a73633ef01cd8772defa6a3c34a588376a1df4c upstream.

In the next commit this function will be used in the uio subsystem

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>writeback: fix negative bdi max pause</title>
<updated>2013-11-04T12:35:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fengguang Wu</name>
<email>fengguang.wu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-16T20:47:03+00:00</published>
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commit e3b6c655b91e01a1dade056cfa358581b47a5351 upstream.

Toralf runs trinity on UML/i386.  After some time it hangs and the last
message line is

	BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [trinity-child0:1521]

It's found that pages_dirtied becomes very large.  More than 1000000000
pages in this case:

	period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
	BUG_ON(pages_dirtied &gt; 2000000000);
	BUG_ON(pages_dirtied &gt; 1000000000);      &lt;---------

UML debug printf shows that we got negative pause here:

	ick: pause : -984
	ick: pages_dirtied : 0
	ick: task_ratelimit: 0

	 pause:
	+       if (pause &lt; 0)  {
	+               extern int printf(char *, ...);
	+               printf("ick : pause : %li\n", pause);
	+               printf("ick: pages_dirtied : %lu\n", pages_dirtied);
	+               printf("ick: task_ratelimit: %lu\n", task_ratelimit);
	+               BUG_ON(1);
	+       }
	        trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,

Since pause is bounded by [min_pause, max_pause] where min_pause is also
bounded by max_pause.  It's suspected and demonstrated that the
max_pause calculation goes wrong:

	ick: pause : -717
	ick: min_pause : -177
	ick: max_pause : -717
	ick: pages_dirtied : 14
	ick: task_ratelimit: 0

The problem lies in the two "long = unsigned long" assignments in
bdi_max_pause() which might go negative if the highest bit is 1, and the
min_t(long, ...) check failed to protect it falling under 0.  Fix all of
them by using "unsigned long" throughout the function.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Toralf Förster &lt;toralf.foerster@gmx.de&gt;
Tested-by: Toralf Förster &lt;toralf.foerster@gmx.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.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 e3b6c655b91e01a1dade056cfa358581b47a5351 upstream.

Toralf runs trinity on UML/i386.  After some time it hangs and the last
message line is

	BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [trinity-child0:1521]

It's found that pages_dirtied becomes very large.  More than 1000000000
pages in this case:

	period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
	BUG_ON(pages_dirtied &gt; 2000000000);
	BUG_ON(pages_dirtied &gt; 1000000000);      &lt;---------

UML debug printf shows that we got negative pause here:

	ick: pause : -984
	ick: pages_dirtied : 0
	ick: task_ratelimit: 0

	 pause:
	+       if (pause &lt; 0)  {
	+               extern int printf(char *, ...);
	+               printf("ick : pause : %li\n", pause);
	+               printf("ick: pages_dirtied : %lu\n", pages_dirtied);
	+               printf("ick: task_ratelimit: %lu\n", task_ratelimit);
	+               BUG_ON(1);
	+       }
	        trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,

Since pause is bounded by [min_pause, max_pause] where min_pause is also
bounded by max_pause.  It's suspected and demonstrated that the
max_pause calculation goes wrong:

	ick: pause : -717
	ick: min_pause : -177
	ick: max_pause : -717
	ick: pages_dirtied : 14
	ick: task_ratelimit: 0

The problem lies in the two "long = unsigned long" assignments in
bdi_max_pause() which might go negative if the highest bit is 1, and the
min_t(long, ...) check failed to protect it falling under 0.  Fix all of
them by using "unsigned long" throughout the function.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Toralf Förster &lt;toralf.foerster@gmx.de&gt;
Tested-by: Toralf Förster &lt;toralf.foerster@gmx.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.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: fix BUG in __split_huge_page_pmd</title>
<updated>2013-11-04T12:35:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-16T20:47:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=08899aecf62e61328acbadd35b8c98dbda7a5ec4'/>
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commit 750e8165f5e87b6a142be953640eabb13a9d350a upstream.

Occasionally we hit the BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) at the end of
__split_huge_page_pmd(): seen when doing madvise(,,MADV_DONTNEED).

It's invalid: we don't always have down_write of mmap_sem there: a racing
do_huge_pmd_wp_page() might have copied-on-write to another huge page
before our split_huge_page() got the anon_vma lock.

Forget the BUG_ON, just go back and try again if this happens.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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 750e8165f5e87b6a142be953640eabb13a9d350a upstream.

Occasionally we hit the BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) at the end of
__split_huge_page_pmd(): seen when doing madvise(,,MADV_DONTNEED).

It's invalid: we don't always have down_write of mmap_sem there: a racing
do_huge_pmd_wp_page() might have copied-on-write to another huge page
before our split_huge_page() got the anon_vma lock.

Forget the BUG_ON, just go back and try again if this happens.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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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