[PATCH] mm/folio: Avoid special handling for order value 0 in folio_set_order

From: Tarun Sahu
Date: Fri Apr 14 2023 - 15:49:10 EST


folio_set_order(folio, 0); which is an abuse of folio_set_order as 0-order
folio does not have any tail page to set order. folio->_folio_nr_pages is
set to 0 for order 0 in folio_set_order. It is required because
_folio_nr_pages overlapped with page->mapping and leaving it non zero
caused "bad page" error while freeing gigantic hugepages. This was fixed in
Commit ba9c1201beaa ("mm/hugetlb: clear compound_nr before freeing gigantic
pages"). Also commit a01f43901cfb ("hugetlb: be sure to free demoted CMA
pages to CMA") now explicitly clear page->mapping and hence we won't see
the bad page error even if _folio_nr_pages remains unset. Also the order 0
folios are not supposed to call folio_set_order, So now we can get rid of
folio_set_order(folio, 0) from hugetlb code path to clear the confusion.

The patch also moves _folio_set_head and folio_set_order calls in
__prep_compound_gigantic_folio() such that we avoid clearing them in the
error path.

Testing: I have run LTP tests, which all passes. and also I have written
the test in LTP which tests the bug caused by compound_nr and page->mapping
overlapping.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230413090753.883953-1-tsahu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Running on older kernel ( < 5.10-rc7) with the above bug this fails while
on newer kernel and, also with this patch it passes.

Signed-off-by: Tarun Sahu <tsahu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 9 +++------
mm/internal.h | 8 ++------
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index f16b25b1a6b9..e2540269c1dc 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1489,7 +1489,6 @@ static void __destroy_compound_gigantic_folio(struct folio *folio,
set_page_refcounted(p);
}

- folio_set_order(folio, 0);
__folio_clear_head(folio);
}

@@ -1951,9 +1950,6 @@ static bool __prep_compound_gigantic_folio(struct folio *folio,
struct page *p;

__folio_clear_reserved(folio);
- __folio_set_head(folio);
- /* we rely on prep_new_hugetlb_folio to set the destructor */
- folio_set_order(folio, order);
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
p = folio_page(folio, i);

@@ -1999,6 +1995,9 @@ static bool __prep_compound_gigantic_folio(struct folio *folio,
if (i != 0)
set_compound_head(p, &folio->page);
}
+ __folio_set_head(folio);
+ /* we rely on prep_new_hugetlb_folio to set the destructor */
+ folio_set_order(folio, order);
atomic_set(&folio->_entire_mapcount, -1);
atomic_set(&folio->_nr_pages_mapped, 0);
atomic_set(&folio->_pincount, 0);
@@ -2017,8 +2016,6 @@ static bool __prep_compound_gigantic_folio(struct folio *folio,
p = folio_page(folio, j);
__ClearPageReserved(p);
}
- folio_set_order(folio, 0);
- __folio_clear_head(folio);
return false;
}

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 18cda26b8a92..0d96a3bc1d58 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -425,16 +425,12 @@ int split_free_page(struct page *free_page,
*/
static inline void folio_set_order(struct folio *folio, unsigned int order)
{
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!folio_test_large(folio)))
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!order || !folio_test_large(folio)))
return;

folio->_folio_order = order;
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
- /*
- * When hugetlb dissolves a folio, we need to clear the tail
- * page, rather than setting nr_pages to 1.
- */
- folio->_folio_nr_pages = order ? 1U << order : 0;
+ folio->_folio_nr_pages = 1U << order;
#endif
}

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2.31.1