Re: list corruption in deferred_split_scan()

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On 7/18/19 5:54 PM, Qian Cai wrote:

On Jul 12, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On 7/11/19 2:07 PM, Qian Cai wrote:
On Wed, 2019-07-10 at 17:16 -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
Hi Qian,


Thanks for reporting the issue. But, I can't reproduce it on my machine.
Could you please share more details about your test? How often did you
run into this problem?
I can almost reproduce it every time on a HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 server. Here
is some more information.

# cat .config

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cailca/linux-mm/master/x86.config
I tried your kernel config, but I still can't reproduce it. My compiler doesn't have retpoline support, so CONFIG_RETPOLINE is disabled in my test, but I don't think this would make any difference for this case.

According to the bug call trace in the earlier email, it looks deferred _split_scan lost race with put_compound_page. The put_compound_page would call free_transhuge_page() which delete the page from the deferred split queue, but it may still appear on the deferred list due to some reason.

Would you please try the below patch?

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index b7f709d..66bd9db 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2765,7 +2765,7 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
         if (!mapcount && page_ref_freeze(head, 1 + extra_pins)) {
                 if (!list_empty(page_deferred_list(head))) {
                         ds_queue->split_queue_len--;
-                       list_del(page_deferred_list(head));
+                       list_del_init(page_deferred_list(head));
                 }
                 if (mapping)
                         __dec_node_page_state(page, NR_SHMEM_THPS);
@@ -2814,7 +2814,7 @@ void free_transhuge_page(struct page *page)
         spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags);
         if (!list_empty(page_deferred_list(page))) {
                 ds_queue->split_queue_len--;
-               list_del(page_deferred_list(page));
+               list_del_init(page_deferred_list(page));
         }
         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags);
         free_compound_page(page);
Unfortunately, I am no longer be able to reproduce the original list corruption with today’s linux-next.

It is because the patches have been dropped from -mm tree by Andrew due to this problem I guess. You have to use next-20190711, or apply the patches on today's linux-next.





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