mm: Close races between THP migration and PMD numa clearing

THP migration uses the page lock to guard against parallel allocations
but there are cases like this still open

  Task A					Task B
  ---------------------				---------------------
  do_huge_pmd_numa_page				do_huge_pmd_numa_page
  lock_page
  mpol_misplaced == -1
  unlock_page
  goto clear_pmdnuma
						lock_page
						mpol_misplaced == 2
						migrate_misplaced_transhuge
  pmd = pmd_mknonnuma
  set_pmd_at

During hours of testing, one crashed with weird errors and while I have
no direct evidence, I suspect something like the race above happened.
This patch extends the page lock to being held until the pmd_numa is
cleared to prevent migration starting in parallel while the pmd_numa is
being cleared. It also flushes the old pmd entry and orders pagetable
insertion before rmap insertion.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-9-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 00ddfcdd810e..cca80d96e509 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1304,24 +1304,25 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	target_nid = mpol_misplaced(page, vma, haddr);
 	if (target_nid == -1) {
 		/* If the page was locked, there are no parallel migrations */
-		if (page_locked) {
-			unlock_page(page);
+		if (page_locked)
 			goto clear_pmdnuma;
-		}
 
-		/* Otherwise wait for potential migrations and retry fault */
+		/*
+		 * Otherwise wait for potential migrations and retry. We do
+		 * relock and check_same as the page may no longer be mapped.
+		 * As the fault is being retried, do not account for it.
+		 */
 		spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 		wait_on_page_locked(page);
+		page_nid = -1;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
 	/* Page is misplaced, serialise migrations and parallel THP splits */
 	get_page(page);
 	spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
-	if (!page_locked) {
+	if (!page_locked)
 		lock_page(page);
-		page_locked = true;
-	}
 	anon_vma = page_lock_anon_vma_read(page);
 
 	/* Confirm the PTE did not while locked */
@@ -1329,32 +1330,28 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (unlikely(!pmd_same(pmd, *pmdp))) {
 		unlock_page(page);
 		put_page(page);
+		page_nid = -1;
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
-	/* Migrate the THP to the requested node */
+	/*
+	 * Migrate the THP to the requested node, returns with page unlocked
+	 * and pmd_numa cleared.
+	 */
 	spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 	migrated = migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(mm, vma,
 				pmdp, pmd, addr, page, target_nid);
 	if (migrated)
 		page_nid = target_nid;
-	else
-		goto check_same;
 
 	goto out;
-
-check_same:
-	spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
-	if (unlikely(!pmd_same(pmd, *pmdp))) {
-		/* Someone else took our fault */
-		page_nid = -1;
-		goto out_unlock;
-	}
 clear_pmdnuma:
+	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
 	pmd = pmd_mknonnuma(pmd);
 	set_pmd_at(mm, haddr, pmdp, pmd);
 	VM_BUG_ON(pmd_numa(*pmdp));
 	update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, addr, pmdp);
+	unlock_page(page);
 out_unlock:
 	spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);