Hi Anshuman,
On 7/21/21 2:50 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
On 7/21/21 4:59 AM, Gavin Shan wrote:
On 7/20/21 4:42 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
On 7/19/21 6:31 PM, Gavin Shan wrote:
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) &&
+ has_transparent_hugepage()) {
+ page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
+ if (page) {
+ args->pmd_pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
+ args->pte_pfn = args->pmd_pfn;
+ return 0;
+ }
+ }
+
As syzbot reported against v1 series, we could allocate pages larger than (1 << (MAX_ORDER - 1)) here.
So __GFP_NOWARN is needed here. I will fix it in v3 series.
I could find the following build error reported from lkp on V2.
mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:445:8: warning: variable 'pud' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
Yes, The following line is missed in PATCH[v2 09/12] and fixed in
PATCH[v3 09/12]: WARN_ON(!pud_none(pud)). With this line added,
the variable @pud is used in v3.
Could you please point to the syzbot reported problem on V1 as you
have mentioned above. Are there configs where HPAGE_[PMD|PUD]_ORDER
is greater than (MAX_ORDER - 1) ? If yes, how adding __GFP_NOWARN
solves the problem ?
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8730ec44a441a434a2c8
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=29a82c885e192046
The kernel config has the following options:
CONFIG_X86_64=y
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD=y
#define PUD_SHIFT 30
#define PMD_SHIFT 21
CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER=n
#define MAX_ORDER 11
(HPAGE_PUD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) >= (1 << MAX_ORDER)
(HPAGE_PMD_ORDER) < (1 << MAX_ORDER)
The warning is triggered in the following path, __GFP_NOWARN helps to
avoid the WARNING_ON_ONCE(), but NULL is returned as expected.
alloc_pages
__alloc_pages
if (unlikely(order >= MAX_ORDER)) {
WARN_ON_ONCE(!(gfp & __GFP_NOWARN));
return NULL;
}
But then that does not allocate the PUD element for the test which
subsequently will be skipped. Isn't it ? So if the order is greater
than MAX_ORDER, allocation needs to happen via alloc_contig_pages()
or something similar.
Yes, the corresponding (modifying) tests will be skipped if we fail
to allocate the PUD huge page. And we need to use alloc_contig_pages()
when CONFIG_CONTIG_ALLOC is enabled. Otherwise, alloc_pages() is still
used as best-effort before we fail completely.
It's explained to you when we're discussion on PATCH[v3 01/12].
Thanks,
Gavin
