[PATCH] mremap: enforce rmap src/dst vma ordering in case of vma_merge succeeding in copy_vma

[Andrea Arcangeli]

migrate was doing a rmap_walk with speculative lock-less access on
pagetables. That could lead it to not serialize properly against
mremap PT locks. But a second problem remains in the order of vmas in
the same_anon_vma list used by the rmap_walk.

If vma_merge would succeed in copy_vma, the src vma could be placed
after the dst vma in the same_anon_vma list. That could still lead
migrate to miss some pte.

This patch adds a anon_vma_moveto_tail() function to force the dst vma
at the end of the list before mremap starts to solve the problem.

If the mremap is very large and there are a lots of parents or childs
sharing the anon_vma root lock, this should still scale better than
taking the anon_vma root lock around every pte copy practically for
the whole duration of mremap.

Update: Hugh noticed special care is needed in the error path where
move_page_tables goes in the reverse direction, a second
anon_vma_moveto_tail() call is needed in the error path.

This program exercises the anon_vma_moveto_tail:

===

int main()
{
	static struct timeval oldstamp, newstamp;
	long diffsec;
	char *p, *p2, *p3, *p4;
	if (posix_memalign((void **)&p, 2*1024*1024, SIZE))
		perror("memalign"), exit(1);
	if (posix_memalign((void **)&p2, 2*1024*1024, SIZE))
		perror("memalign"), exit(1);
	if (posix_memalign((void **)&p3, 2*1024*1024, SIZE))
		perror("memalign"), exit(1);

	memset(p, 0xff, SIZE);
	printf("%p\n", p);
	memset(p2, 0xff, SIZE);
	memset(p3, 0x77, 4096);
	if (memcmp(p, p2, SIZE))
		printf("error\n");
	p4 = mremap(p+SIZE/2, SIZE/2, SIZE/2, MREMAP_FIXED|MREMAP_MAYMOVE, p3);
	if (p4 != p3)
		perror("mremap"), exit(1);
	p4 = mremap(p4, SIZE/2, SIZE/2, MREMAP_FIXED|MREMAP_MAYMOVE, p+SIZE/2);
	if (p4 != p+SIZE/2)
		perror("mremap"), exit(1);
	if (memcmp(p, p2, SIZE))
		printf("error\n");
	printf("ok\n");

	return 0;
}
===

$ perf probe -a anon_vma_moveto_tail
Add new event:
  probe:anon_vma_moveto_tail (on anon_vma_moveto_tail)

You can now use it on all perf tools, such as:

        perf record -e probe:anon_vma_moveto_tail -aR sleep 1

$ perf record -e probe:anon_vma_moveto_tail -aR ./anon_vma_moveto_tail
0x7f2ca2800000
ok
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.043 MB perf.data (~1860 samples) ]
$ perf report --stdio
   100.00%  anon_vma_moveto  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] anon_vma_moveto_tail

Reported-by: Nai Xia <nai.xia@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/rmap.h |    1 +
 mm/mmap.c            |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 mm/mremap.c          |    1 +
 mm/rmap.c            |   45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h
index 2148b12..1afb995 100644
--- a/include/linux/rmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/rmap.h
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ void anon_vma_init(void);	/* create anon_vma_cachep */
 int  anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *);
 void unlink_anon_vmas(struct vm_area_struct *);
 int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
+void anon_vma_moveto_tail(struct vm_area_struct *);
 int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
 void __anon_vma_link(struct vm_area_struct *);
 
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 3c0061f..948513d 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2322,13 +2322,16 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **vmap,
 	struct vm_area_struct *new_vma, *prev;
 	struct rb_node **rb_link, *rb_parent;
 	struct mempolicy *pol;
+	bool faulted_in_anon_vma = true;
 
 	/*
 	 * If anonymous vma has not yet been faulted, update new pgoff
 	 * to match new location, to increase its chance of merging.
 	 */
-	if (!vma->vm_file && !vma->anon_vma)
+	if (!vma->vm_file && !vma->anon_vma) {
 		pgoff = addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+		faulted_in_anon_vma = false;
+	}
 
 	find_vma_prepare(mm, addr, &prev, &rb_link, &rb_parent);
 	new_vma = vma_merge(mm, prev, addr, addr + len, vma->vm_flags,
@@ -2338,8 +2341,23 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **vmap,
 		 * Source vma may have been merged into new_vma
 		 */
 		if (vma_start >= new_vma->vm_start &&
-		    vma_start < new_vma->vm_end)
+		    vma_start < new_vma->vm_end) {
+			/*
+			 * The only way we can get a vma_merge with
+			 * self during an mremap is if the vma hasn't
+			 * been faulted in yet and we were allowed to
+			 * reset the dst vma->vm_pgoff to the
+			 * destination address of the mremap to allow
+			 * the merge to happen. mremap must change the
+			 * vm_pgoff linearity between src and dst vmas
+			 * (in turn preventing a vma_merge) to be
+			 * safe. It is only safe to keep the vm_pgoff
+			 * linear if there are no pages mapped yet.
+			 */
+			VM_BUG_ON(faulted_in_anon_vma);
 			*vmap = new_vma;
+		} else
+			anon_vma_moveto_tail(new_vma);
 	} else {
 		new_vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (new_vma) {
diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index d6959cb..d845537 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		 * which will succeed since page tables still there,
 		 * and then proceed to unmap new area instead of old.
 		 */
+		anon_vma_moveto_tail(vma);
 		move_page_tables(new_vma, new_addr, vma, old_addr, moved_len);
 		vma = new_vma;
 		old_len = new_len;
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 6541cf7..9832f03 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -272,6 +272,51 @@ int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Some rmap walk that needs to find all ptes/hugepmds without false
+ * negatives (like migrate and split_huge_page) running concurrent
+ * with operations that copy or move pagetables (like mremap() and
+ * fork()) to be safe. They depend on the anon_vma "same_anon_vma"
+ * list to be in a certain order: the dst_vma must be placed after the
+ * src_vma in the list. This is always guaranteed by fork() but
+ * mremap() needs to call this function to enforce it in case the
+ * dst_vma isn't newly allocated and chained with the anon_vma_clone()
+ * function but just an extension of a pre-existing vma through
+ * vma_merge.
+ *
+ * NOTE: the same_anon_vma list can still be changed by other
+ * processes while mremap runs because mremap doesn't hold the
+ * anon_vma mutex to prevent modifications to the list while it
+ * runs. All we need to enforce is that the relative order of this
+ * process vmas isn't changing (we don't care about other vmas
+ * order). Each vma corresponds to an anon_vma_chain structure so
+ * there's no risk that other processes calling anon_vma_moveto_tail()
+ * and changing the same_anon_vma list under mremap() will screw with
+ * the relative order of this process vmas in the list, because we
+ * they can't alter the order of any vma that belongs to this
+ * process. And there can't be another anon_vma_moveto_tail() running
+ * concurrently with mremap() coming from this process because we hold
+ * the mmap_sem for the whole mremap(). fork() ordering dependency
+ * also shouldn't be affected because fork() only cares that the
+ * parent vmas are placed in the list before the child vmas and
+ * anon_vma_moveto_tail() won't reorder vmas from either the fork()
+ * parent or child.
+ */
+void anon_vma_moveto_tail(struct vm_area_struct *dst)
+{
+	struct anon_vma_chain *pavc;
+	struct anon_vma *root = NULL;
+
+	list_for_each_entry_reverse(pavc, &dst->anon_vma_chain, same_vma) {
+		struct anon_vma *anon_vma = pavc->anon_vma;
+		VM_BUG_ON(pavc->vma != dst);
+		root = lock_anon_vma_root(root, anon_vma);
+		list_del(&pavc->same_anon_vma);
+		list_add_tail(&pavc->same_anon_vma, &anon_vma->head);
+	}
+	unlock_anon_vma_root(root);
+}
+
+/*
  * Attach vma to its own anon_vma, as well as to the anon_vmas that
  * the corresponding VMA in the parent process is attached to.
  * Returns 0 on success, non-zero on failure.
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