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| author | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2017-07-06 15:39:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -0700 |
| commit | a3e328556d41bb61c55f9dfcc62d6a826ea97b85 (patch) | |
| tree | 59d5688e7cfa92d0bd513c3ea6b361a3053d8c97 /mm | |
| parent | f0b38d65c9d0b42f3e6d861a18906d49441bf78e (diff) | |
mm, gup: remove broken VM_BUG_ON_PAGE compound check for hugepages
When operating on hugepages with DEBUG_VM enabled, the GUP code checks
the compound head for each tail page prior to calling
page_cache_add_speculative. This is broken, because on the fast-GUP
path (where we don't hold any page table locks) we can be racing with a
concurrent invocation of split_huge_page_to_list.
split_huge_page_to_list deals with this race by using page_ref_freeze to
freeze the page and force concurrent GUPs to fail whilst the component
pages are modified. This modification includes clearing the
compound_head field for the tail pages, so checking this prior to a
successful call to page_cache_add_speculative can lead to false
positives: In fact, page_cache_add_speculative *already* has this check
once the page refcount has been successfully updated, so we can simply
remove the broken calls to VM_BUG_ON_PAGE.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170522133604.11392-2-punit.agrawal@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/gup.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1426,7 +1426,6 @@ static int gup_huge_pmd(pmd_t orig, pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, head = pmd_page(orig); page = head + ((addr & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); do { - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_head(page) != head, page); pages[*nr] = page; (*nr)++; page++; @@ -1465,7 +1464,6 @@ static int gup_huge_pud(pud_t orig, pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr, head = pud_page(orig); page = head + ((addr & ~PUD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); do { - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_head(page) != head, page); pages[*nr] = page; (*nr)++; page++; @@ -1503,7 +1501,6 @@ static int gup_huge_pgd(pgd_t orig, pgd_t *pgdp, unsigned long addr, head = pgd_page(orig); page = head + ((addr & ~PGDIR_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT); do { - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_head(page) != head, page); pages[*nr] = page; (*nr)++; page++; |