Re: [PATCH] mm: fix hugetlb page unmap count balance issue

From: James Houghton
Date: Fri May 12 2023 - 17:27:31 EST


On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 12:20 AM Junxiao Chang <junxiao.chang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> hugetlb page usually is mapped with pmd, but occasionally it might be
> mapped with pte. QEMU can use udma-buf to create host dmabufs for guest
> framebuffers. When QEMU is launched with parameter "hugetlb=on",
> udmabuffer driver maps hugetlb page with pte in page fault handler.
> Call chain looks like:
>
> page_add_file_rmap
> do_set_pte
> finish_fault
> __do_fault -> udmabuf_vm_fault, it maps hugetlb page here.
> do_read_fault
>
> In function page_add_file_rmap, compound is false since it is pte mapping.
>
> When qemu exits and page is unmapped in function page_remove_rmap, the
> hugetlb page should not be handled in pmd way.
>
> This change is to check compound parameter as well as hugetlb flag. It
> fixes below kernel bug which is reproduced with 6.3 kernel:
>
> [ 114.027754] BUG: Bad page cache in process qemu-system-x86 pfn:37aa00
> [ 114.034288] page:000000000dd2153b refcount:514 mapcount:-4 mapping:000000004b01ca30 index:0x13800 pfn:0x37aa00
> [ 114.044277] head:000000000dd2153b order:9 entire_mapcount:-4 nr_pages_mapped:4 pincount:512
> [ 114.052623] aops:hugetlbfs_aops ino:6f93
> [ 114.056552] flags: 0x17ffffc0010001(locked|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
> [ 114.064115] raw: 0017ffffc0010001 fffff7338deb0008 fffff7338dea0008 ffff98dc855ea870
> [ 114.071847] raw: 000000000000009c 0000000000000002 00000202ffffffff 0000000000000000
> [ 114.079572] page dumped because: still mapped when deleted
> [ 114.085048] CPU: 0 PID: 3122 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Tainted: G BU W E 6.3.0-v3+ #62
> [ 114.093566] Hardware name: Intel Corporation Alder Lake Client Platform DDR5 SODIMM SBS RVP, BIOS ADLPFWI1.R00.3084.D89.2303211034 03/21/2023
> [ 114.106839] Call Trace:
> [ 114.109291] <TASK>
> [ 114.111405] dump_stack_lvl+0x4c/0x70
> [ 114.115073] dump_stack+0x14/0x20
> [ 114.118395] filemap_unaccount_folio+0x159/0x220
> [ 114.123021] filemap_remove_folio+0x54/0x110
> [ 114.127295] remove_inode_hugepages+0x111/0x5b0
> [ 114.131834] hugetlbfs_evict_inode+0x23/0x50
> [ 114.136111] evict+0xcd/0x1e0
> [ 114.139083] iput.part.0+0x183/0x1e0
> [ 114.142663] iput+0x20/0x30
> [ 114.145466] dentry_unlink_inode+0xcc/0x130
> [ 114.149655] __dentry_kill+0xec/0x1a0
> [ 114.153325] dput+0x1ca/0x3c0
> [ 114.156293] __fput+0xf4/0x280
> [ 114.159357] ____fput+0x12/0x20
> [ 114.162502] task_work_run+0x62/0xa0
> [ 114.166088] do_exit+0x352/0xae0
> [ 114.169321] do_group_exit+0x39/0x90
> [ 114.172892] get_signal+0xa09/0xa30
> [ 114.176391] arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x33/0x280
> [ 114.181098] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x11f/0x190
> [ 114.185893] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x2a/0x50
> [ 114.190509] do_syscall_64+0x4c/0x90
> [ 114.194095] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
>
> Fixes: 53f9263baba6 ("mm: rework mapcount accounting to enable 4k mapping of THPs")
> Signed-off-by: Junxiao Chang <junxiao.chang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/rmap.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
> index 19392e090bec6..b42fc0389c243 100644
> --- a/mm/rmap.c
> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> @@ -1377,9 +1377,9 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>
> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound && !PageHead(page), page);
>
> - /* Hugetlb pages are not counted in NR_*MAPPED */
> - if (unlikely(folio_test_hugetlb(folio))) {
> - /* hugetlb pages are always mapped with pmds */
> + /* Hugetlb pages usually are not counted in NR_*MAPPED */
> + if (unlikely(folio_test_hugetlb(folio) && compound)) {
> + /* hugetlb pages are mapped with pmds */
> atomic_dec(&folio->_entire_mapcount);
> return;
> }

This alone doesn't fix mapcounting for PTE-mapped HugeTLB pages. You
need something like [1]. I can resend it if that's what we should be
doing, but this mapcounting scheme doesn't work when the page structs
have been freed.

It seems like it was a mistake to include support for hugetlb memfds in udmabuf.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230306230004.1387007-2-jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx/

- James