KVM guests on s390 can notify the host of unused pages. This can result
in pte_unused callbacks to be true for KVM guest memory.
If a page is unused (checked with pte_unused) we might drop this page
instead of paging it. This can have side-effects on userfaultd, when the
page in question was already migrated:
The next access of that page will trigger a fault and a user fault
instead of faulting in a new and empty zero page. As QEMU does not
expect a userfault on an already migrated page this migration will fail.
The most straightforward solution is to ignore the pte_unused hint if a
userfault context is active for this VMA.
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2->v3 : improve comment
RFC->v2: user userfaultfd_active
mm/rmap.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 6db729dc4c50..eb477809a5c0 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <linux/page_idle.h>
#include <linux/memremap.h>
+#include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
@@ -1481,11 +1482,16 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
set_pte_at(mm, address, pvmw.pte, pteval);
}
- } else if (pte_unused(pteval)) {
+ } else if (pte_unused(pteval) && !userfaultfd_armed(vma)) {
/*
* The guest indicated that the page content is of no
* interest anymore. Simply discard the pte, vmscan
* will take care of the rest.
+ * A future reference will then fault in a new zero
+ * page. When userfaultfd is active, we must not drop
+ * this page though, as its main user (postcopy
+ * migration) will not expect userfaults on already
+ * copied pages.
*/
dec_mm_counter(mm, mm_counter(page));
/* We have to invalidate as we cleared the pte */
--
2.17.0
