linux-toradex.git/mm, branch v4.9.107

mm: fix the NULL mapping case in __isolate_lru_page()

2018-06-06T14:44:39+00:00

commit 145e1a71e090575c74969e3daa8136d1e5b99fc8 upstream.

George Boole would have noticed a slight error in 4.16 commit
69d763fc6d3a ("mm: pin address_space before dereferencing it while
isolating an LRU page").  Fix it, to match both the comment above it,
and the original behaviour.

Although anonymous pages are not marked PageDirty at first, we have an
old habit of calling SetPageDirty when a page is removed from swap
cache: so there's a category of ex-swap pages that are easily
migratable, but were inadvertently excluded from compaction's async
migration in 4.16.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1805302014001.12558@eggly.anvils
Fixes: 69d763fc6d3a ("mm: pin address_space before dereferencing it while isolating an LRU page")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Minchan Kim 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Reported-by:  Ivan Kalvachev 
Cc: "Huang, Ying" 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fix races between address_space dereference and free in page_evicatable

2018-05-30T05:50:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit e92bb4dd9673945179b1fc738c9817dd91bfb629 ]

When page_mapping() is called and the mapping is dereferenced in
page_evicatable() through shrink_active_list(), it is possible for the
inode to be truncated and the embedded address space to be freed at the
same time.  This may lead to the following race.

CPU1                                                CPU2

truncate(inode)                                     shrink_active_list()
  ...                                                 page_evictable(page)
  truncate_inode_page(mapping, page);
    delete_from_page_cache(page)
      spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
        __delete_from_page_cache(page, NULL)
          page_cache_tree_delete(..)
            ...                                         mapping = page_mapping(page);
            page->mapping = NULL;
            ...
      spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
      page_cache_free_page(mapping, page)
        put_page(page)
          if (put_page_testzero(page)) -> false
- inode now has no pages and can be freed including embedded address_space

                                                        mapping_unevictable(mapping)
							  test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE, &mapping->flags);
- we've dereferenced mapping which is potentially already free.

Similar race exists between swap cache freeing and page_evicatable()
too.

The address_space in inode and swap cache will be freed after a RCU
grace period.  So the races are fixed via enclosing the page_mapping()
and address_space usage in rcu_read_lock/unlock().  Some comments are
added in code to make it clear what is protected by the RCU read lock.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212081227.1940-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: "Huang, Ying" 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/ksm: fix interaction with THP

2018-05-30T05:50:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit 77da2ba0648a4fd52e5ff97b8b2b8dd312aec4b0 ]

This patch fixes a corner case for KSM.  When two pages belong or
belonged to the same transparent hugepage, and they should be merged,
KSM fails to split the page, and therefore no merging happens.

This bug can be reproduced by:
* making sure ksm is running (in case disabling ksmtuned)
* enabling transparent hugepages
* allocating a THP-aligned 1-THP-sized buffer
  e.g. on amd64: posix_memalign(&p, 1<<21, 1<<21)
* filling it with the same values
  e.g. memset(p, 42, 1<<21)
* performing madvise to make it mergeable
  e.g. madvise(p, 1<<21, MADV_MERGEABLE)
* waiting for KSM to perform a few scans

The expected outcome is that the all the pages get merged (1 shared and
the rest sharing); the actual outcome is that no pages get merged (1
unshared and the rest volatile)

The reason of this behaviour is that we increase the reference count
once for both pages we want to merge, but if they belong to the same
hugepage (or compound page), the reference counter used in both cases is
the one of the head of the compound page.  This means that
split_huge_page will find a value of the reference counter too high and
will fail.

This patch solves this problem by testing if the two pages to merge
belong to the same hugepage when attempting to merge them.  If so, the
hugepage is split safely.  This means that the hugepage is not split if
not necessary.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521548069-24758-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda 
Co-authored-by: Gerald Schaefer 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

swap: divide-by-zero when zero length swap file on ssd

2018-05-30T05:50:40+00:00

[ Upstream commit a06ad633a37c64a0cd4c229fc605cee8725d376e ]

Calling swapon() on a zero length swap file on SSD can lead to a
divide-by-zero.

Although creating such files isn't possible with mkswap and they woud be
considered invalid, it would be better for the swapon code to be more
robust and handle this condition gracefully (return -EINVAL).
Especially since the fix is small and straightforward.

To help with wear leveling on SSD, the swapon syscall calculates a
random position in the swap file using modulo p->highest_bit, which is
set to maxpages - 1 in read_swap_header.

If the swap file is zero length, read_swap_header sets maxpages=1 and
last_page=0, resulting in p->highest_bit=0 and we divide-by-zero when we
modulo p->highest_bit in swapon syscall.

This can be prevented by having read_swap_header return zero if
last_page is zero.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5AC747C1020000A7001FA82C@prv-mh.provo.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Abraham 
Reported-by: 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/kmemleak.c: wait for scan completion before disabling free

2018-05-30T05:50:39+00:00

[ Upstream commit 914b6dfff790544d9b77dfd1723adb3745ec9700 ]

A crash is observed when kmemleak_scan accesses the object->pointer,
likely due to the following race.

  TASK A             TASK B                     TASK C
  kmemleak_write
   (with "scan" and
   NOT "scan=on")
  kmemleak_scan()
                     create_object
                     kmem_cache_alloc fails
                     kmemleak_disable
                     kmemleak_do_cleanup
                     kmemleak_free_enabled = 0
                                                kfree
                                                kmemleak_free bails out
                                                 (kmemleak_free_enabled is 0)
                                                slub frees object->pointer
  update_checksum
  crash - object->pointer
   freed (DEBUG_PAGEALLOC)

kmemleak_do_cleanup waits for the scan thread to complete, but not for
direct call to kmemleak_scan via kmemleak_write.  So add a wait for
kmemleak_scan completion before disabling kmemleak_free, and while at it
fix the comment on stop_scan_thread.

[vinmenon@codeaurora.org: fix stop_scan_thread comment]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522219972-22809-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522063429-18992-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon 
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, thp: do not cause memcg oom for thp

2018-05-30T05:50:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9d3c3354bb85bab4d865fe95039443f09a4c8394 ]

Commit 2516035499b9 ("mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and
madvised allocations") changed the page allocator to no longer detect
thp allocations based on __GFP_NORETRY.

It did not, however, modify the mem cgroup try_charge() path to avoid
oom kill for either khugepaged collapsing or thp faulting.  It is never
expected to oom kill a process to allocate a hugepage for thp; reclaim
is governed by the thp defrag mode and MADV_HUGEPAGE, but allocations
(and charging) should fallback instead of oom killing processes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1803191409420.124411@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Fixes: 2516035499b9 ("mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and madvised allocations")
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/mempolicy.c: avoid use uninitialized preferred_node

2018-05-30T05:50:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8970a63e965b43288c4f5f40efbc2bbf80de7f16 ]

Alexander reported a use of uninitialized memory in __mpol_equal(),
which is caused by incorrect use of preferred_node.

When mempolicy in mode MPOL_PREFERRED with flags MPOL_F_LOCAL, it uses
numa_node_id() instead of preferred_node, however, __mpol_equal() uses
preferred_node without checking whether it is MPOL_F_LOCAL or not.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: slight comment tweak]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ebee1c2-57f6-bcb8-0e2d-1833d1ee0bb7@huawei.com
Fixes: fc36b8d3d819 ("mempolicy: use MPOL_F_LOCAL to Indicate Preferred Local Policy")
Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie 
Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko 
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/fadvise: discard partial page if endbyte is also EOF

2018-05-30T05:50:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit a7ab400d6fe73d0119fdc234e9982a6f80faea9f ]

During our recent testing with fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED), we find that if
given offset/length is not page-aligned, the last page will not be
discarded.  The tool we use is vmtouch (https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/),
we map a 10KB-sized file into memory and then try to run this tool to
evict the whole file mapping, but the last single page always remains
staying in the memory:

$./vmtouch -e test_10K
           Files: 1
     Directories: 0
   Evicted Pages: 3 (12K)
         Elapsed: 2.1e-05 seconds

$./vmtouch test_10K
           Files: 1
     Directories: 0
  Resident Pages: 1/3  4K/12K  33.3%
         Elapsed: 5.5e-05 seconds

However when we test with an older kernel, say 3.10, this problem is
gone.  So we wonder if this is a regression:

$./vmtouch -e test_10K
           Files: 1
     Directories: 0
   Evicted Pages: 3 (12K)
         Elapsed: 8.2e-05 seconds

$./vmtouch test_10K
           Files: 1
     Directories: 0
  Resident Pages: 0/3  0/12K  0%  <-- partial page also discarded
         Elapsed: 5e-05 seconds

After digging a little bit into this problem, we find it seems not a
regression.  Not discarding partial page is likely to be on purpose
according to commit 441c228f817f ("mm: fadvise: document the
fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) behaviour for partial pages") written by Mel
Gorman.  He explained why partial pages should be preserved instead of
being discarded when using fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED).

However, the interesting part is that the actual code did NOT work as
the same as it was described, the partial page was still discarded
anyway, due to a calculation mistake of `end_index' passed to
invalidate_mapping_pages().  This mistake has not been fixed until
recently, that's why we fail to reproduce our problem in old kernels.
The fix is done in commit 18aba41cbf ("mm/fadvise.c: do not discard
partial pages with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED") by Oleg Drokin.

Back to the original testing, our problem becomes that there is a
special case that, if the page-unaligned `endbyte' is also the end of
file, it is not necessary at all to preserve the last partial page, as
we all know no one else will use the rest of it.  It should be safe
enough if we just discard the whole page.  So we add an EOF check in
this patch.

We also find a poosbile real world issue in mainline kernel.  Assume
such scenario: A userspace backup application want to backup a huge
amount of small files (<4k) at once, the developer might (I guess) want
to use fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) to save memory.  However, FADV_DONTNEED
won't really happen since the only page mapped is a partial page, and
kernel will preserve it.  Our patch also fixes this problem, since we
know the endbyte is EOF, so we discard it.

Here is a simple reproducer to reproduce and verify each scenario we
described above:

  test_fadvise.c
  ==============================
  #include 
  #include 
  #include 
  #include 
  #include 
  #include 
  #include 

  int main(int argc, char **argv)
  {
  	int i, fd, ret, len;
  	struct stat buf;
  	void *addr;
  	unsigned char *vec;
  	char *strbuf;
  	ssize_t pagesize = getpagesize();
  	ssize_t filesize;

  	fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR|O_CREAT, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR);
  	if (fd < 0)
  		return -1;
  	filesize = strtoul(argv[2], NULL, 10);

  	strbuf = malloc(filesize);
  	memset(strbuf, 42, filesize);
  	write(fd, strbuf, filesize);
  	free(strbuf);
  	fsync(fd);

  	len = (filesize + pagesize - 1) / pagesize;
  	printf("length of pages: %d\n", len);

  	addr = mmap(NULL, filesize, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
  	if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
  		return -1;

  	ret = posix_fadvise(fd, 0, filesize, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED);
  	if (ret < 0)
  		return -1;

  	vec = malloc(len);
  	ret = mincore(addr, filesize, (void *)vec);
  	if (ret < 0)
  		return -1;

  	for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
  		printf("pages[%d]: %x\n", i, vec[i] & 0x1);

  	free(vec);
  	close(fd);

  	return 0;
  }
  ==============================

Test 1: running on kernel with commit 18aba41cbf reverted:

  [root@caspar ~]# uname -r
  4.15.0-rc6.revert+
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise file1 1024
  length of pages: 1
  pages[0]: 0    # <-- partial page discarded
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise file2 8192
  length of pages: 2
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise file3 10240
  length of pages: 3
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  pages[2]: 0    # <-- partial page discarded

Test 2: running on mainline kernel:

  [root@caspar ~]# uname -r
  4.15.0-rc6+
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test1 1024
  length of pages: 1
  pages[0]: 1    # <-- partial and the only page not discarded
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test2 8192
  length of pages: 2
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test3 10240
  length of pages: 3
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  pages[2]: 1    # <-- partial page not discarded

Test 3: running on kernel with this patch:

  [root@caspar ~]# uname -r
  4.15.0-rc6.patched+
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test1 1024
  length of pages: 1
  pages[0]: 0    # <-- partial page and EOF, discarded
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test2 8192
  length of pages: 2
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test3 10240
  length of pages: 3
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  pages[2]: 0    # <-- partial page and EOF, discarded

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak code comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5222da9ee20e1695eaabb69f631f200d6e6b8876.1515132470.git.jinli.zjl@alibaba-inc.com
Signed-off-by: shidao.ytt 
Signed-off-by: Caspar Zhang 
Reviewed-by: Oliver Yang 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: pin address_space before dereferencing it while isolating an LRU page

2018-05-30T05:50:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit 69d763fc6d3aee787a3e8c8c35092b4f4960fa5d ]

Minchan Kim asked the following question -- what locks protects
address_space destroying when race happens between inode trauncation and
__isolate_lru_page? Jan Kara clarified by describing the race as follows

CPU1                                            CPU2

truncate(inode)                                 __isolate_lru_page()
  ...
  truncate_inode_page(mapping, page);
    delete_from_page_cache(page)
      spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
        __delete_from_page_cache(page, NULL)
          page_cache_tree_delete(..)
            ...                                   mapping = page_mapping(page);
            page->mapping = NULL;
            ...
      spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
      page_cache_free_page(mapping, page)
        put_page(page)
          if (put_page_testzero(page)) -> false
- inode now has no pages and can be freed including embedded address_space

                                                  if (mapping && !mapping->a_ops->migratepage)
- we've dereferenced mapping which is potentially already free.

The race is theoretically possible but unlikely.  Before the
delete_from_page_cache, truncate_cleanup_page is called so the page is
likely to be !PageDirty or PageWriteback which gets skipped by the only
caller that checks the mappping in __isolate_lru_page.  Even if the race
occurs, a substantial amount of work has to happen during a tiny window
with no preemption but it could potentially be done using a virtual
machine to artifically slow one CPU or halt it during the critical
window.

This patch should eliminate the race with truncation by try-locking the
page before derefencing mapping and aborting if the lock was not
acquired.  There was a suggestion from Huang Ying to use RCU as a
side-effect to prevent mapping being freed.  However, I do not like the
solution as it's an unconventional means of preserving a mapping and
it's not a context where rcu_read_lock is obviously protecting rcu data.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180104102512.2qos3h5vqzeisrek@techsingularity.net
Fixes: c82449352854 ("mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware again")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Minchan Kim 
Cc: "Huang, Ying" 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: thp: use down_read_trylock() in khugepaged to avoid long block

2018-05-30T05:50:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3b454ad35043dfbd3b5d2bb92b0991d6342afb44 ]

In the current design, khugepaged needs to acquire mmap_sem before
scanning an mm.  But in some corner cases, khugepaged may scan a process
which is modifying its memory mapping, so khugepaged blocks in
uninterruptible state.  But the process might hold the mmap_sem for a
long time when modifying a huge memory space and it may trigger the
below khugepaged hung issue:

  INFO: task khugepaged:270 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
  Tainted: G E 4.9.65-006.ali3000.alios7.x86_64 #1
  "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
  khugepaged D 0 270 2 0x00000000 
  ffff883f3deae4c0 0000000000000000 ffff883f610596c0 ffff883f7d359440
  ffff883f63818000 ffffc90019adfc78 ffffffff817079a5 d67e5aa8c1860a64
  0000000000000246 ffff883f7d359440 ffffc90019adfc88 ffff883f610596c0
  Call Trace:
    schedule+0x36/0x80
    rwsem_down_read_failed+0xf0/0x150
    call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x18/0x30
    down_read+0x20/0x40
    khugepaged+0x476/0x11d0
    kthread+0xe6/0x100
    ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30

So it sounds pointless to just block khugepaged waiting for the
semaphore so replace down_read() with down_read_trylock() to move to
scan the next mm quickly instead of just blocking on the semaphore so
that other processes can get more chances to install THP.  Then
khugepaged can come back to scan the skipped mm when it has finished the
current round full_scan.

And it appears that the change can improve khugepaged efficiency a
little bit.

Below is the test result when running LTP on a 24 cores 4GB memory 2
nodes NUMA VM:

                                    pristine          w/ trylock
  full_scan                         197               187
  pages_collapsed                   21                26
  thp_fault_alloc                   40818             44466
  thp_fault_fallback                18413             16679
  thp_collapse_alloc                21                150
  thp_collapse_alloc_failed         14                16
  thp_file_alloc                    369               369

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
[arnd@arndb.de: avoid uninitialized variable use]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171215125129.2948634-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1513281203-54878-1-git-send-email-yang.s@alibaba-inc.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman