linux-toradex.git/mm/mprotect.c, branch v4.17-rc7

sched/numa: avoid trapping faults and attempting migration of file-backed dirty pages

2018-04-11T17:28:31+00:00

change_pte_range is called from task work context to mark PTEs for
receiving NUMA faulting hints.  If the marked pages are dirty then
migration may fail.  Some filesystems cannot migrate dirty pages without
blocking so are skipped in MIGRATE_ASYNC mode which just wastes CPU.
Even when they can, it can be a waste of cycles when the pages are
shared forcing higher scan rates.  This patch avoids marking shared
dirty pages for hinting faults but also will skip a migration if the
page was dirtied after the scanner updated a clean page.

This is most noticeable running the NASA Parallel Benchmark when backed
by btrfs, the default root filesystem for some distributions, but also
noticeable when using XFS.

The following are results from a 4-socket machine running a 4.16-rc4
kernel with some scheduler patches that are pending for the next merge
window.

                        4.16.0-rc4             4.16.0-rc4
                 schedtip-20180309          nodirty-v1
  Time cg.D      459.07 (   0.00%)      444.21 (   3.24%)
  Time ep.D       76.96 (   0.00%)       77.69 (  -0.95%)
  Time is.D       25.55 (   0.00%)       27.85 (  -9.00%)
  Time lu.D      601.58 (   0.00%)      596.87 (   0.78%)
  Time mg.D      107.73 (   0.00%)      108.22 (  -0.45%)

is.D regresses slightly in terms of absolute time but note that that
particular load varies quite a bit from run to run.  The more relevant
observation is the total system CPU usage.

            4.16.0-rc4  4.16.0-rc4
          schedtip-20180309 nodirty-v1
  User        71471.91    70627.04
  System      11078.96     8256.13
  Elapsed       661.66      632.74

That is a substantial drop in system CPU usage and overall the workload
completes faster.  The NUMA balancing statistics are also interesting

  NUMA base PTE updates        111407972   139848884
  NUMA huge PMD updates           206506      264869
  NUMA page range updates      217139044   275461812
  NUMA hint faults               4300924     3719784
  NUMA hint local faults         3012539     3416618
  NUMA hint local percent             70          91
  NUMA pages migrated            1517487     1358420

While more PTEs are scanned due to changes in what faults are gathered,
it's clear that a far higher percentage of faults are local as the bulk
of the remote hits were dirty pages that, in this case with btrfs, had
no chance of migrating.

The following is a comparison when using XFS as that is a more realistic
filesystem choice for a data partition

                        4.16.0-rc4             4.16.0-rc4
                 schedtip-20180309          nodirty-v1r47
  Time cg.D      485.28 (   0.00%)      442.62 (   8.79%)
  Time ep.D       77.68 (   0.00%)       77.54 (   0.18%)
  Time is.D       26.44 (   0.00%)       24.79 (   6.24%)
  Time lu.D      597.46 (   0.00%)      597.11 (   0.06%)
  Time mg.D      142.65 (   0.00%)      105.83 (  25.81%)

That is a reasonable gain on two relatively long-lived workloads.  While
not presented, there is also a substantial drop in system CPu usage and
the NUMA balancing stats show similar improvements in locality as btrfs
did.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180326094334.zserdec62gwmmfqf@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Clear arch specific VM flags on protection change

2018-03-18T14:38:47+00:00

When protection bits are changed on a VMA, some of the architecture
specific flags should be cleared as well. An examples of this are the
PKEY flags on x86. This patch expands the current code that clears
PKEY flags for x86, to support similar functionality for other
architectures as well.

Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz 
Cc: Khalid Aziz 
Reviewed-by: Anthony Yznaga 
Acked-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mm: Add address parameter to arch_validate_prot()

2018-03-18T14:38:47+00:00

A protection flag may not be valid across entire address space and
hence arch_validate_prot() might need the address a protection bit is
being set on to ensure it is a valid protection flag. For example, sparc
processors support memory corruption detection (as part of ADI feature)
flag on memory addresses mapped on to physical RAM but not on PFN mapped
pages or addresses mapped on to devices. This patch adds address to the
parameters being passed to arch_validate_prot() so protection bits can
be validated in the relevant context.

Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz 
Cc: Khalid Aziz 
Reviewed-by: Anthony Yznaga 
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman  (powerpc)
Acked-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mm: numa: do not trap faults on shared data section pages.

2018-02-01T01:18:40+00:00

Workloads consisting of a large number of processes running the same
program with a very large shared data segment may experience performance
problems when numa balancing attempts to migrate the shared cow pages.
This manifests itself with many processes or tasks in
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state waiting for the shared pages to be migrated.

The program listed below simulates the conditions with these results
when run with 288 processes on a 144 core/8 socket machine.

Average throughput 	Average throughput     Average throughput
with numa_balancing=0	with numa_balancing=1  with numa_balancing=1
     			without the patch      with the patch
---------------------	---------------------  ---------------------
2118782			2021534		       2107979

Complex production environments show less variability and fewer poorly
performing outliers accompanied with a smaller number of processes
waiting on NUMA page migration with this patch applied.  In some cases,
%iowait drops from 16%-26% to 0.

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
  /*
   * Copyright (c) 2017 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
   */
  #include 
  #include 
  #include 
  #include 

  int a[1000000] = {13};

  int  main(int argc, const char **argv)
  {
	int n = 0;
	int i;
	pid_t pid;
	int stat;
	int *count_array;
	int cpu_count = 288;
	long total = 0;

	struct timeval t1, t2 = {(argc > 1 ? atoi(argv[1]) : 10), 0};

	if (argc > 2)
		cpu_count = atoi(argv[2]);

	count_array = mmap(NULL, cpu_count * sizeof(int),
			   (PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE),
			   (MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS), 0, 0);

	if (count_array == MAP_FAILED) {
		perror("mmap:");
		return 0;
	}

	for (i = 0; i < cpu_count; ++i) {
		pid = fork();
		if (pid <= 0)
			break;
		if ((i & 0xf) == 0)
			usleep(2);
	}

	if (pid != 0) {
		if (i == 0) {
			perror("fork:");
			return 0;
		}

		for (;;) {
			pid = wait(&stat);
			if (pid < 0)
				break;
		}

		for (i = 0; i < cpu_count; ++i)
			total += count_array[i];

		printf("Total %ld\n", total);
		munmap(count_array, cpu_count * sizeof(int));
		return 0;
	}

	gettimeofday(&t1, 0);
	timeradd(&t1, &t2, &t1);
	while (timercmp(&t2, &t1, <)) {
		int b = 0;
		int j;

		for (j = 0; j < 1000000; j++)
			b += a[j];
		gettimeofday(&t2, 0);
		n++;
	}
	count_array[i] = n;
	return 0;
  }

This patch changes change_pte_range() to skip shared copy-on-write pages
when called from change_prot_numa().

NOTE: change_prot_numa() is nominally called from task_numa_work() and
queue_pages_test_walk().  task_numa_work() is the auto NUMA balancing
path, and queue_pages_test_walk() is part of explicit NUMA policy
management.  However, queue_pages_test_walk() only calls
change_prot_numa() when MPOL_MF_LAZY is specified and currently that is
not allowed, so change_prot_numa() is only called from auto NUMA
balancing.

In the case of explicit NUMA policy management, shared pages are not
migrated unless MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL is specified, and MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL
depends on CAP_SYS_NICE.  Currently, there is no way to pass information
about MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL to change_pte_range.  This will have to be fixed
if MPOL_MF_LAZY is enabled and MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL is to be honored in lazy
migration mode.

task_numa_work() skips the read-only VMAs of programs and shared
libraries.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516751617-7369-1-git-send-email-henry.willard@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Henry Willard 
Reviewed-by: Håkon Bugge 
Reviewed-by: Steve Sistare 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Kate Stewart 
Cc: Zi Yan 
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/mprotect: add a cond_resched() inside change_pmd_range()

2018-01-05T00:45:09+00:00

While testing on a large CPU system, detected the following RCU stall
many times over the span of the workload.  This problem is solved by
adding a cond_resched() in the change_pmd_range() function.

  INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
   154-....: (670 ticks this GP) idle=022/140000000000000/0 softirq=2825/2825 fqs=612
   (detected by 955, t=6002 jiffies, g=4486, c=4485, q=90864)
  Sending NMI from CPU 955 to CPUs 154:
  NMI backtrace for cpu 154
  CPU: 154 PID: 147071 Comm: workload Not tainted 4.15.0-rc3+ #3
  NIP:  c0000000000b3f64 LR: c0000000000b33d4 CTR: 000000000000aa18
  REGS: 00000000a4b0fb44 TRAP: 0501   Not tainted  (4.15.0-rc3+)
  MSR:  8000000000009033   CR: 22422082  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: 00000000006cf8f0 SOFTE: 1
  GPR00: 0010000000000000 c00003ef9b1cb8c0 c0000000010cc600 0000000000000000
  GPR04: 8e0000018c32b200 40017b3858fd6e00 8e0000018c32b208 40017b3858fd6e00
  GPR08: 8e0000018c32b210 40017b3858fd6e00 8e0000018c32b218 40017b3858fd6e00
  GPR12: ffffffffffffffff c00000000fb25100
  NIP [c0000000000b3f64] plpar_hcall9+0x44/0x7c
  LR [c0000000000b33d4] pSeries_lpar_flush_hash_range+0x384/0x420
  Call Trace:
    flush_hash_range+0x48/0x100
    __flush_tlb_pending+0x44/0xd0
    hpte_need_flush+0x408/0x470
    change_protection_range+0xaac/0xf10
    change_prot_numa+0x30/0xb0
    task_numa_work+0x2d0/0x3e0
    task_work_run+0x130/0x190
    do_notify_resume+0x118/0x120
    ret_from_except_lite+0x70/0x74
  Instruction dump:
  60000000 f8810028 7ca42b78 7cc53378 7ce63b78 7d074378 7d284b78 7d495378
  e9410060 e9610068 e9810070 44000022 <7d806378> e9810028 f88c0000 f8ac0008

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171214140551.5794-1-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual 
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/ZONE_DEVICE: new type of ZONE_DEVICE for unaddressable memory

2017-09-09T01:26:46+00:00

HMM (heterogeneous memory management) need struct page to support
migration from system main memory to device memory.  Reasons for HMM and
migration to device memory is explained with HMM core patch.

This patch deals with device memory that is un-addressable memory (ie CPU
can not access it).  Hence we do not want those struct page to be manage
like regular memory.  That is why we extend ZONE_DEVICE to support
different types of memory.

A persistent memory type is define for existing user of ZONE_DEVICE and a
new device un-addressable type is added for the un-addressable memory
type.  There is a clear separation between what is expected from each
memory type and existing user of ZONE_DEVICE are un-affected by new
requirement and new use of the un-addressable type.  All specific code
path are protect with test against the memory type.

Because memory is un-addressable we use a new special swap type for when a
page is migrated to device memory (this reduces the number of maximum swap
file).

The main two additions beside memory type to ZONE_DEVICE is two callbacks.
First one, page_free() is call whenever page refcount reach 1 (which
means the page is free as ZONE_DEVICE page never reach a refcount of 0).
This allow device driver to manage its memory and associated struct page.

The second callback page_fault() happens when there is a CPU access to an
address that is back by a device page (which are un-addressable by the
CPU).  This callback is responsible to migrate the page back to system
main memory.  Device driver can not block migration back to system memory,
HMM make sure that such page can not be pin into device memory.

If device is in some error condition and can not migrate memory back then
a CPU page fault to device memory should end with SIGBUS.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix warning]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170823133213.712917-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170817000548.32038-8-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Dan Williams 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: David Nellans 
Cc: Evgeny Baskakov 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: John Hubbard 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Mark Hairgrove 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Sherry Cheung 
Cc: Subhash Gutti 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Bob Liu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: thp: check pmd migration entry in common path

2017-09-09T01:26:45+00:00

When THP migration is being used, memory management code needs to handle
pmd migration entries properly.  This patch uses !pmd_present() or
is_swap_pmd() (depending on whether pmd_none() needs separate code or
not) to check pmd migration entries at the places where a pmd entry is
present.

Since pmd-related code uses split_huge_page(), split_huge_pmd(),
pmd_trans_huge(), pmd_trans_unstable(), or
pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), this patch:

1. adds pmd migration entry split code in split_huge_pmd(),

2. takes care of pmd migration entries whenever pmd_trans_huge() is present,

3. makes pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() pmd migration entry aware.

Since split_huge_page() uses split_huge_pmd() and pmd_trans_unstable()
is equivalent to pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), we do not change
them.

Until this commit, a pmd entry should be:
1. pointing to a pte page,
2. is_swap_pmd(),
3. pmd_trans_huge(),
4. pmd_devmap(), or
5. pmd_none().

Signed-off-by: Zi Yan 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Anshuman Khandual 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: David Nellans 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: migrate: prevent racy access to tlb_flush_pending

2017-08-10T22:54:07+00:00

Patch series "fixes of TLB batching races", v6.

It turns out that Linux TLB batching mechanism suffers from various
races.  Races that are caused due to batching during reclamation were
recently handled by Mel and this patch-set deals with others.  The more
fundamental issue is that concurrent updates of the page-tables allow
for TLB flushes to be batched on one core, while another core changes
the page-tables.  This other core may assume a PTE change does not
require a flush based on the updated PTE value, while it is unaware that
TLB flushes are still pending.

This behavior affects KSM (which may result in memory corruption) and
MADV_FREE and MADV_DONTNEED (which may result in incorrect behavior).  A
proof-of-concept can easily produce the wrong behavior of MADV_DONTNEED.
Memory corruption in KSM is harder to produce in practice, but was
observed by hacking the kernel and adding a delay before flushing and
replacing the KSM page.

Finally, there is also one memory barrier missing, which may affect
architectures with weak memory model.

This patch (of 7):

Setting and clearing mm->tlb_flush_pending can be performed by multiple
threads, since mmap_sem may only be acquired for read in
task_numa_work().  If this happens, tlb_flush_pending might be cleared
while one of the threads still changes PTEs and batches TLB flushes.

This can lead to the same race between migration and
change_protection_range() that led to the introduction of
tlb_flush_pending.  The result of this race was data corruption, which
means that this patch also addresses a theoretically possible data
corruption.

An actual data corruption was not observed, yet the race was was
confirmed by adding assertion to check tlb_flush_pending is not set by
two threads, adding artificial latency in change_protection_range() and
using sysctl to reduce kernel.numa_balancing_scan_delay_ms.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802000818.4760-2-namit@vmware.com
Fixes: 20841405940e ("mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and
change_protection_range")
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Acked-by: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, mprotect: flush TLB if potentially racing with a parallel reclaim leaving stale TLB entries

2017-08-02T23:34:46+00:00

Nadav Amit identified a theoritical race between page reclaim and
mprotect due to TLB flushes being batched outside of the PTL being held.

He described the race as follows:

        CPU0                            CPU1
        ----                            ----
                                        user accesses memory using RW PTE
                                        [PTE now cached in TLB]
        try_to_unmap_one()
        ==> ptep_get_and_clear()
        ==> set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending()
                                        mprotect(addr, PROT_READ)
                                        ==> change_pte_range()
                                        ==> [ PTE non-present - no flush ]

                                        user writes using cached RW PTE
        ...

        try_to_unmap_flush()

The same type of race exists for reads when protecting for PROT_NONE and
also exists for operations that can leave an old TLB entry behind such
as munmap, mremap and madvise.

For some operations like mprotect, it's not necessarily a data integrity
issue but it is a correctness issue as there is a window where an
mprotect that limits access still allows access.  For munmap, it's
potentially a data integrity issue although the race is massive as an
munmap, mmap and return to userspace must all complete between the
window when reclaim drops the PTL and flushes the TLB.  However, it's
theoritically possible so handle this issue by flushing the mm if
reclaim is potentially currently batching TLB flushes.

Other instances where a flush is required for a present pte should be ok
as either the page lock is held preventing parallel reclaim or a page
reference count is elevated preventing a parallel free leading to
corruption.  In the case of page_mkclean there isn't an obvious path
that userspace could take advantage of without using the operations that
are guarded by this patch.  Other users such as gup as a race with
reclaim looks just at PTEs.  huge page variants should be ok as they
don't race with reclaim.  mincore only looks at PTEs.  userfault also
should be ok as if a parallel reclaim takes place, it will either fault
the page back in or read some of the data before the flush occurs
triggering a fault.

Note that a variant of this patch was acked by Andy Lutomirski but this
was for the x86 parts on top of his PCID work which didn't make the 4.13
merge window as expected.  His ack is dropped from this version and
there will be a follow-on patch on top of PCID that will include his
ack.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170717155523.emckq2esjro6hf3z@suse.de
Reported-by: Nadav Amit 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: 	[v4.4+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds