Re: [PATCH] mm/thp: flush file for !is_shmem PageDirty() case in collapse_file()

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On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:07:36 -0700 Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> wrote:

> For non-shmem file THPs, khugepaged only collapses read only .text mapping
> (VM_DENYWRITE). These pages should not be dirty except the case where the
> file hasn't been flushed since first write.
> 
> Call filemap_flush() in collapse_file() to accelerate the write back in
> such cases.
> 
> Also add warning if PageDirty() triggered for pages from readahead path.
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+efb9e48b9fbdc49bb34a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

If sysbot reported something then we definitely want to be able to
review that report when reviewing the patch!  So please do include a
Link: for that sort of thing.

A bit of sleuthing leads me to
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/000000000000c50fd70595fdd5b2@xxxxxxxxxx

which shows that this patch is in fact a fix against
mmthp-recheck-each-page-before-collapsing-file-thp.patch.  This very
important information wasn't in the changelog.

And this patch doesn't really fix the sysbot hang, does it?  The patch
restores the flush which was removed in order to fix the sysbot hang.

In general, please do try to include all this sort of information when
preparing changelogs.


> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -1601,6 +1601,33 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  					result = SCAN_FAIL;
>  					goto xa_unlocked;
>  				}
> +				if (WARN_ON_ONCE(PageDirty(page))) {

I'm not understanding what guarantees this.  Can't another process
which has the file open for writing come in and dirty the page after
the readahead has completed and before this process locks the page?

> +					/*
> +					 * page from readahead should not
> +					 * be dirty. Show warning if this
> +					 * somehow happens.
> +					 */
> +					result = SCAN_FAIL;
> +					goto out_unlock;
> +				}
> +			} else if (PageDirty(page)) {
> +				/*
> +				 * khugepaged only works on read-only fd,
> +				 * so this page is dirty because it hasn't
> +				 * been flushed since first write. There
> +				 * won't be new dirty pages.
> +				 *
> +				 * Trigger async flush here and hope the
> +				 * writeback is done when khugepaged
> +				 * revisits this page.
> +				 *
> +				 * This is a one-off situation. We are not
> +				 * forcing writeback in loop.
> +				 */
> +				xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
> +				filemap_flush(mapping);
> +				result = SCAN_FAIL;
> +				goto xa_unlocked;
>  			} else if (trylock_page(page)) {
>  				get_page(page);
>  				xas_unlock_irq(&xas);

The patch mmthp-recheck-each-page-before-collapsing-file-thp.patch has
undergone quite a bit of churn so I don't think it should be mainlined
without more testing and review.  But it fixes a significant issue.  So
could the appropriate developers please take some time to recheck and
retest it all?

To that end, here's the combination of
mmthp-recheck-each-page-before-collapsing-file-thp.patch and this
patch:

From: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
Subject: mm,thp: recheck each page before collapsing file THP

In collapse_file(), for !is_shmem case, current check cannot guarantee
the locked page is up-to-date.  Specifically, xas_unlock_irq() should
not be called before lock_page() and get_page(); and it is necessary to
recheck PageUptodate() after locking the page.  

With this bug and CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS=y, madvise(HUGE)'ed .text
may contain corrupted data.  This is because khugepaged mistakenly
collapses some not up-to-date sub pages into a huge page, and assumes
the huge page is up-to-date.  This will NOT corrupt data in the disk,
because the page is read-only and never written back.  Fix this by
properly checking PageUptodate() after locking the page.  This check
replaces "VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageUptodate(page), page);".  

Also, move PageDirty() check after locking the page.  Current
khugepaged should not try to collapse dirty file THP, because it is
limited to read-only .text.  Add a warning with the PageDirty() check
as it should not happen.  This warning is added after page_mapping()
check, because if the page is truncated, it might be dirty.

[songliubraving@xxxxxx: flush file for !is_shmem PageDirty() case in collapse_file()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191030200736.3455046-1-songliubraving@xxxxxx
[songliubraving@xxxxxx: v4]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022191006.411277-1-songliubraving@xxxxxx
[songliubraving@xxxxxx: fix deadlock in collapse_file()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191028221414.3685035-1-songliubraving@xxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191018180345.4188310-1-songliubraving@xxxxxx
Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/khugepaged.c |   49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/khugepaged.c~mmthp-recheck-each-page-before-collapsing-file-thp
+++ a/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1601,17 +1601,33 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_stru
 					result = SCAN_FAIL;
 					goto xa_unlocked;
 				}
-			} else if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
-				xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
-				wait_on_page_locked(page);
-				if (!trylock_page(page)) {
-					result = SCAN_PAGE_LOCK;
-					goto xa_unlocked;
+				if (WARN_ON_ONCE(PageDirty(page))) {
+					/*
+					 * page from readahead should not
+					 * be dirty. Show warning if this
+					 * somehow happens.
+					 */
+					result = SCAN_FAIL;
+					goto out_unlock;
 				}
-				get_page(page);
 			} else if (PageDirty(page)) {
+				/*
+				 * khugepaged only works on read-only fd,
+				 * so this page is dirty because it hasn't
+				 * been flushed since first write. There
+				 * won't be new dirty pages.
+				 *
+				 * Trigger async flush here and hope the
+				 * writeback is done when khugepaged
+				 * revisits this page.
+				 *
+				 * This is a one-off situation. We are not
+				 * forcing writeback in loop.
+				 */
+				xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
+				filemap_flush(mapping);
 				result = SCAN_FAIL;
-				goto xa_locked;
+				goto xa_unlocked;
 			} else if (trylock_page(page)) {
 				get_page(page);
 				xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
@@ -1626,7 +1642,12 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_stru
 		 * without racing with truncate.
 		 */
 		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
-		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageUptodate(page), page);
+
+		/* double check the page is up to date */
+		if (unlikely(!PageUptodate(page))) {
+			result = SCAN_FAIL;
+			goto out_unlock;
+		}
 
 		/*
 		 * If file was truncated then extended, or hole-punched, before
@@ -1642,6 +1663,16 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_stru
 			goto out_unlock;
 		}
 
+		if (!is_shmem && PageDirty(page)) {
+			/*
+			 * khugepaged only works on read-only fd, so this
+			 * page is dirty because it hasn't been flushed
+			 * since first write.
+			 */
+			result = SCAN_FAIL;
+			goto out_unlock;
+		}
+
 		if (isolate_lru_page(page)) {
 			result = SCAN_DEL_PAGE_LRU;
 			goto out_unlock;
_





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