On 8/1/24 19:18, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 01.08.24 15:43, Will Deacon wrote:
On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 03:26:57PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 01.08.24 15:13, David Hildenbrand wrote:
To dampen the tradeoff, we could do this in shmem_fault()
instead? But
then, this would mean that we do this in all
kinds of vma->vm_ops->fault, only when we discover another
reference
count race condition :) Doing this in do_fault()
should solve this once and for all. In fact, do_pte_missing()
may call
do_anonymous_page() or do_fault(), and I just
noticed that the former already checks this using
vmf_pte_changed().
What I am still missing is why this is (a) arm64 only; and (b) if
this
is something we should really worry about. There are other reasons
(e.g., speculative references) why migration could temporarily fail,
does it happen that often that it is really something we have to
worry
about?
(a) See discussion at [1]; I guess it passes on x86, which is quite
strange since the race is clearly arch-independent.
Yes, I think this is what we have to understand. Is the race simply
less
likely to trigger on x86?
I would assume that it would trigger on any arch.
I just ran it on a x86 VM with 2 NUMA nodes and it also seems to
work here.
Is this maybe related to deferred flushing? Such that the other CPU
will
by accident just observe the !pte_none a little less likely?
But arm64 also usually defers flushes, right? At least unless
ARM64_WORKAROUND_REPEAT_TLBI is around. With that we never do deferred
flushes.
Bingo!
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index e51ed44f8b53..ce94b810586b 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -718,10 +718,7 @@ static void set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(struct
mm_struct
*mm, pte_t pteval,
*/
static bool should_defer_flush(struct mm_struct *mm, enum
ttu_flags flags)
{
- if (!(flags & TTU_BATCH_FLUSH))
- return false;
-
- return arch_tlbbatch_should_defer(mm);
+ return false;
}
On x86:
# ./migration
TAP version 13
1..1
# Starting 1 tests from 1 test cases.
# RUN migration.shared_anon ...
Didn't migrate 1 pages
# migration.c:170:shared_anon:Expected migrate(ptr, self->n1,
self->n2) (-2)
== 0 (0)
# shared_anon: Test terminated by assertion
# FAIL migration.shared_anon
not ok 1 migration.shared_anon
It fails all of the time!
Nice work! I suppose that makes sense as, with the eager TLB
invalidation, the window between the other CPU faulting and the
migration entry being written is fairly wide.
Not sure about a fix though :/ It feels a bit overkill to add a new
invalid pte encoding just for this.
Something like that might make the test happy in most cases:
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c
b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c
index 6908569ef406..4c18bfc13b94 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ int migrate(uint64_t *ptr, int n1, int n2)
int ret, tmp;
int status = 0;
struct timespec ts1, ts2;
+ int errors = 0;
if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts1))
return -1;
@@ -79,12 +80,17 @@ int migrate(uint64_t *ptr, int n1, int n2)
ret = move_pages(0, 1, (void **) &ptr, &n2, &status,
MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL);
if (ret) {
- if (ret > 0)
+ if (ret > 0) {
+ if (++errors < 100)
+ continue;
printf("Didn't migrate %d pages\n", ret);
- else
+ } else {
perror("Couldn't migrate pages");
+ }
return -2;
}
+ /* Progress! */
+ errors = 0;
tmp = n2;
n2 = n1;
[root@localhost mm]# ./migration
TAP version 13
1..1
# Starting 1 tests from 1 test cases.
# RUN migration.shared_anon ...
# OK migration.shared_anon
ok 1 migration.shared_anon
# PASSED: 1 / 1 tests passed.
# Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
This does make the test pass, to my surprise, since what you are doing
from userspace
should have been done by the kernel, because it retries folio unmapping
and moving
NR_MAX_MIGRATE_(A)SYNC_RETRY times; I had already tested pumping up these
macros and the original test was still failing. Now, I digged in more,
and, if the
following assertion is correct:
Any thread having a reference on a folio will end up calling folio_lock()
then it seems to me that the retry for loop wrapped around
migrate_folio_move(), inside
migrate_pages_batch(), is useless; if migrate_folio_move() fails on the
first iteration, it is
going to fail for all iterations since, if I am reading the code path
correctly, the only way it
fails is when the actual refcount is not equal to expected refcount (in
folio_migrate_mapping()),
and there is no way that the extra refcount is going to get released
since the migration path
has the folio lock.
And therefore, this begs the question: isn't it logical to assert the
actual refcount against the
expected refcount, just after we have changed the PTEs, so that if this
assertion fails, we can
go to the next iteration of the for loop for migrate_folio_unmap()
inside migrate_pages_batch()
by calling migrate_folio_undo_src()/dst() to restore the old state? I am
trying to implement
this but is not as straightforward as it seemed to me this morning.
