The patch titled Subject: mm: thp: fix MADV_REMOVE deadlock on shmem THP has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-thp-fix-madv_remove-deadlock-on-shmem-thp.patch
This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-thp-fix-madv_remove-deadlock-on... and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-thp-fix-madv_remove-deadlock-on...
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Subject: mm: thp: fix MADV_REMOVE deadlock on shmem THP
Sergey reported deadlock between kswapd correctly doing its usual lock_page(page) followed by down_read(page->mapping->i_mmap_rwsem), and madvise(MADV_REMOVE) on an madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) area doing down_write(page->mapping->i_mmap_rwsem) followed by lock_page(page).
This happened when shmem_fallocate(punch hole)'s unmap_mapping_range() reaches zap_pmd_range()'s call to __split_huge_pmd(). The same deadlock could occur when partially truncating a mapped huge tmpfs file, or using fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) on it.
__split_huge_pmd()'s page lock was added in 5.8, to make sure that any concurrent use of reuse_swap_page() (holding page lock) could not catch the anon THP's mapcounts and swapcounts while they were being split.
Fortunately, reuse_swap_page() is never applied to a shmem or file THP (not even by khugepaged, which checks PageSwapCache before calling), and anonymous THPs are never created in shmem or file areas: so that __split_huge_pmd()'s page lock can only be necessary for anonymous THPs, on which there is no risk of deadlock with i_mmap_rwsem.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2101161409470.2022@eggly.anvils Fixes: c444eb564fb1 ("mm: thp: make the THP mapcount atomic against __split_huge_pmd_locked()") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/huge_memory.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-thp-fix-madv_remove-deadlock-on-shmem-thp +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2202,7 +2202,7 @@ void __split_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_str { spinlock_t *ptl; struct mmu_notifier_range range; - bool was_locked = false; + bool do_unlock_page = false; pmd_t _pmd;
mmu_notifier_range_init(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR, 0, vma, vma->vm_mm, @@ -2218,7 +2218,6 @@ void __split_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_str VM_BUG_ON(freeze && !page); if (page) { VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!PageLocked(page)); - was_locked = true; if (page != pmd_page(*pmd)) goto out; } @@ -2227,19 +2226,29 @@ repeat: if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) { if (!page) { page = pmd_page(*pmd); - if (unlikely(!trylock_page(page))) { - get_page(page); - _pmd = *pmd; - spin_unlock(ptl); - lock_page(page); - spin_lock(ptl); - if (unlikely(!pmd_same(*pmd, _pmd))) { - unlock_page(page); + /* + * An anonymous page must be locked, to ensure that a + * concurrent reuse_swap_page() sees stable mapcount; + * but reuse_swap_page() is not used on shmem or file, + * and page lock must not be taken when zap_pmd_range() + * calls __split_huge_pmd() while i_mmap_lock is held. + */ + if (PageAnon(page)) { + if (unlikely(!trylock_page(page))) { + get_page(page); + _pmd = *pmd; + spin_unlock(ptl); + lock_page(page); + spin_lock(ptl); + if (unlikely(!pmd_same(*pmd, _pmd))) { + unlock_page(page); + put_page(page); + page = NULL; + goto repeat; + } put_page(page); - page = NULL; - goto repeat; } - put_page(page); + do_unlock_page = true; } } if (PageMlocked(page)) @@ -2249,7 +2258,7 @@ repeat: __split_huge_pmd_locked(vma, pmd, range.start, freeze); out: spin_unlock(ptl); - if (!was_locked && page) + if (do_unlock_page) unlock_page(page); /* * No need to double call mmu_notifier->invalidate_range() callback. _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@google.com are
mm-thp-fix-madv_remove-deadlock-on-shmem-thp.patch