Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] powerpc: assert_pte_locked() use pte_offset_map_nolock()

[Hugh Dickins]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2023, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Instead of pte_lockptr(), use the recently added pte_offset_map_nolock()
> > in assert_pte_locked().  BUG if pte_offset_map_nolock() fails: this is
> > stricter than the previous implementation, which skipped when pmd_none()
> > (with a comment on khugepaged collapse transitions): but wouldn't we want
> > to know, if an assert_pte_locked() caller can be racing such transitions?
> >
> 
> The reason we had that pmd_none check there was to handle khugpaged. In
> case of khugepaged we do pmdp_collapse_flush and then do a ptep_clear.
> ppc64 had the assert_pte_locked check inside that ptep_clear.
> 
> _pmd = pmdp_collapse_flush(vma, address, pmd);
> ..
> ptep_clear()
> -> asset_ptep_locked()
> ---> pmd_none
> -----> BUG
> 
> 
> The problem is how assert_pte_locked() verify whether we are holding
> ptl. It does that by walking the page table again and in this specific
> case by the time we call the function we already had cleared pmd .

Aneesh, please clarify, I've spent hours on this.

>From all your use of past tense ("had"), I thought you were Acking my
patch; but now, after looking again at v3.11 source and today's,
I think you are NAKing my patch in its present form.

You are pointing out that anon THP's __collapse_huge_page_copy_succeeded()
uses ptep_clear() at a point after pmdp_collapse_flush() already cleared
*pmd, so my patch now leads that one use of assert_pte_locked() to BUG.
Is that your point?

I can easily restore that khugepaged comment (which had appeared to me
out of date at the time, but now looks still relevant) and pmd_none(*pmd)
check: but please clarify.

Thanks,
Hugh

> >
> > This mod might cause new crashes: which either expose my ignorance, or
> > indicate issues to be fixed, or limit the usage of assert_pte_locked().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c | 16 ++++++----------
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> > index cb2dcdb18f8e..16b061af86d7 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> > @@ -311,6 +311,8 @@ void assert_pte_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
> >  	p4d_t *p4d;
> >  	pud_t *pud;
> >  	pmd_t *pmd;
> > +	pte_t *pte;
> > +	spinlock_t *ptl;
> >  
> >  	if (mm == &init_mm)
> >  		return;
> > @@ -321,16 +323,10 @@ void assert_pte_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
> >  	pud = pud_offset(p4d, addr);
> >  	BUG_ON(pud_none(*pud));
> >  	pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
> > -	/*
> > -	 * khugepaged to collapse normal pages to hugepage, first set
> > -	 * pmd to none to force page fault/gup to take mmap_lock. After
> > -	 * pmd is set to none, we do a pte_clear which does this assertion
> > -	 * so if we find pmd none, return.
> > -	 */
> > -	if (pmd_none(*pmd))
> > -		return;
> > -	BUG_ON(!pmd_present(*pmd));
> > -	assert_spin_locked(pte_lockptr(mm, pmd));
> > +	pte = pte_offset_map_nolock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
> > +	BUG_ON(!pte);
> > +	assert_spin_locked(ptl);
> > +	pte_unmap(pte);
> >  }
> >  #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_VM */
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.35.3