Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: detect race if fail to COW

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:11:28 +0100
Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri 18-11-11 23:23:12, Hillf Danton wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Fri 18-11-11 22:04:37, Hillf Danton wrote:
> > >> In the error path that we fail to allocate new huge page, before try again, we
> > >> have to check race since page_table_lock is re-acquired.
> > >
> > > I do not think we can race here because we are serialized by
> > > hugetlb_instantiation_mutex AFAIU. Without this lock, however, we could
> > > fall into avoidcopy and shortcut despite the fact that other thread has
> > > already did the job.
> > >
> > > The mutex usage is not obvious in hugetlb_cow so maybe we want to be
> > > explicit about it (either a comment or do the recheck).
> > >
> > 
> > Then the following check is unnecessary, no?
> 
> Hmm, thinking about it some more, I guess we have to recheck because we
> can still race with page migration. So we need you patch.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

So we need a new changelog.  How does this look?


From: Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: hugetlb: detect race upon page allocation failure during COW

In the error path where we failed to allocate a new huge page, we should
check whether a racing thread has added this page for us while this thread
waited for the page_table_lock.

We are serialized by hugetlb_instantiation_mutex on the pagefault patch
but this race can occur when another thread is performing page migration.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/hugetlb.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-detect-race-upon-page-allocation-failure-during-cow mm/hugetlb.c
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-detect-race-upon-page-allocation-failure-during-cow
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2407,7 +2407,14 @@ retry_avoidcopy:
 				BUG_ON(page_count(old_page) != 1);
 				BUG_ON(huge_pte_none(pte));
 				spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
-				goto retry_avoidcopy;
+				ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address & huge_page_mask(h));
+				if (likely(pte_same(huge_ptep_get(ptep), pte)))
+					goto retry_avoidcopy;
+				/*
+				 * race occurs while re-acquiring page_table_lock, and
+				 * our job is done.
+				 */
+				return 0;
 			}
 			WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
 		}
_

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