Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] mm: make vma cache SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU

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On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 11:05 AM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 7:47 AM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 7:29 AM Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > * Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> [241113 10:25]:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 7:23 AM 'Liam R. Howlett' via kernel-team
> > > > <kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > * Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [241113 08:57]:
> > > > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 07:38:02AM -0500, Liam R. Howlett wrote:
> > > > > > > > Hi, I was wondering if we actually need the detached flag. Couldn't
> > > > > > > > "detached" simply mean vma->vm_mm == NULL and we save 4 bytes? Do we ever
> > > > > > > > need a vma that's detached but still has a mm pointer? I'd hope the places
> > > > > > > > that set detached to false have the mm pointer around so it's not inconvenient.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I think the gate vmas ruin this plan.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > But the gate VMAs aren't to be found in the VMA tree.  Used to be that
> > > > > > was because the VMA tree was the injective RB tree and so VMAs could
> > > > > > only be in one tree at a time.  We could change that now!
> > > > >
> > > > > \o/
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Anyway, we could use (void *)1 instead of NULL to indicate a "detached"
> > > > > > VMA if we need to distinguish between a detached VMA and a gate VMA.
> > > > >
> > > > > I was thinking a pointer to itself vma->vm_mm = vma, then a check for
> > > > > this, instead of null like we do today.
> > > >
> > > > The motivation for having a separate detached flag was that vma->vm_mm
> > > > is used when read/write locking the vma, so it has to stay valid even
> > > > when vma gets detached. Maybe we can be more cautious in
> > > > vma_start_read()/vma_start_write() about it but I don't recall if
> > > > those were the only places that was an issue.
> > >
> > > We have the mm form the callers though, so it could be passed in?
> >
> > Let me try and see if something else blows up. When I was implementing
> > per-vma locks I thought about using vma->vm_mm to indicate detached
> > state but there were some issues that caused me reconsider.
>
> Yeah, a quick change reveals the first mine explosion:
>
> [    2.838900] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000480
> [    2.840671] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> [    2.841958] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> [    2.843248] PGD 800000010835a067 P4D 800000010835a067 PUD 10835b067 PMD 0
> [    2.844920] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
> [    2.846078] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted
> 6.12.0-rc6-00258-ga587fcd91b06-dirty #111
> [    2.848277] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
> BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
> [    2.850673] RIP: 0010:unmap_vmas+0x84/0x190
> [    2.851717] Code: 00 00 00 00 48 c7 44 24 48 00 00 00 00 48 c7 44
> 24 18 00 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 28 4c 89 44 24 38 e8 b1 c0 d1 00 48 8b
> 44 24 28 <48> 83 b8 80 04 00 00 00 0f 85 dd 00 00 00 45 0f b6 ed 49 83
> ec 01
> [    2.856287] RSP: 0000:ffffa298c0017a18 EFLAGS: 00010246
> [    2.857599] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f48ccbb4000 RCX: 00007f48ccbb4000
> [    2.859382] RDX: ffff8918c26401e0 RSI: ffffa298c0017b98 RDI: ffffa298c0017ab0
> [    2.861156] RBP: 00007f48ccdb6000 R08: 00007f48ccdb6000 R09: 0000000000000001
> [    2.862941] R10: 0000000000000040 R11: ffff8918c2637108 R12: 0000000000000001
> [    2.864719] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff8918c26401e0 R15: ffffa298c0017b98
> [    2.866472] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8927bf080000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> [    2.868439] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [    2.869877] CR2: 0000000000000480 CR3: 000000010263e000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0
> [    2.871661] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> [    2.873419] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> [    2.875185] PKRU: 55555554
> [    2.875871] Call Trace:
> [    2.876503]  <TASK>
> [    2.877047]  ? __die+0x1e/0x60
> [    2.877824]  ? page_fault_oops+0x17b/0x4a0
> [    2.878857]  ? exc_page_fault+0x6b/0x150
> [    2.879841]  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
> [    2.880886]  ? unmap_vmas+0x84/0x190
> [    2.881783]  ? unmap_vmas+0x7f/0x190
> [    2.882680]  vms_clear_ptes+0x106/0x160
> [    2.883621]  vms_complete_munmap_vmas+0x53/0x170
> [    2.884762]  do_vmi_align_munmap+0x15e/0x1d0
> [    2.885838]  do_vmi_munmap+0xcb/0x160
> [    2.886760]  __vm_munmap+0xa4/0x150
> [    2.887637]  elf_load+0x1c4/0x250
> [    2.888473]  load_elf_binary+0xabb/0x1680
> [    2.889476]  ? __kernel_read+0x111/0x320
> [    2.890458]  ? load_misc_binary+0x1bc/0x2c0
> [    2.891510]  bprm_execve+0x23e/0x5e0
> [    2.892408]  kernel_execve+0xf3/0x140
> [    2.893331]  ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
> [    2.894356]  kernel_init+0xe5/0x1c0
> [    2.895241]  ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
> [    2.896141]  ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
> [    2.897164]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
> [    2.898148]  </TASK>
>
> Looks like we are detaching VMAs and then unmapping them, where
> vms_clear_ptes() uses vms->vma->vm_mm. I'll try to clean up this and
> other paths and will see how many changes are required to make this
> work.

Ok, my vma->detached deprecation effort got to the point that my QEMU
boots. The change is not pretty and I'm quite sure I did not cover all
cases yet (like hugepages):

 arch/arm/kernel/process.c             |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c              |   4 +-
 arch/loongarch/kernel/vdso.c          |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c            |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vas.c  |   2 +-
 arch/riscv/kernel/vdso.c              |   4 +-
 arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c               |   2 +-
 arch/s390/mm/gmap.c                   |   2 +-
 arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c             |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/encl.c        |   2 +-
 arch/x86/um/mem_32.c                  |   2 +-
 drivers/android/binder_alloc.c        |   2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_mm.c        |   4 +-
 drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c |   4 +-
 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grumain.c        |   2 +-
 fs/exec.c                             |   2 +-
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c                  |   3 +-
 include/linux/mm.h                    | 111 +++++++++++++++++---------
 include/linux/mm_types.h              |   6 --
 kernel/bpf/arena.c                    |   2 +-
 kernel/fork.c                         |   6 +-
 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c                 |   2 +-
 mm/internal.h                         |   2 +-
 mm/madvise.c                          |   4 +-
 mm/memory.c                           |  39 ++++-----
 mm/mmap.c                             |   9 +--
 mm/nommu.c                            |   6 +-
 mm/oom_kill.c                         |   2 +-
 mm/vma.c                              |  62 +++++++-------
 mm/vma.h                              |   2 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp.c                        |   4 +-
 31 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 136 deletions(-)

Many of the unmap_* and zap_* functions should get an `mm` parameter
to make this work.
So, if we take this route, it should definitely be a separate patch,
which will likely cause some instability issues for some time until
all the edge cases are ironed out. I would like to proceed with this
patch series first before attempting to deprecate vma->detached. Let
me know if you have objections to this plan.

>
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Either way, we should make it a function so it's easier to reuse for
> > > > > whatever we need in the future, wdyt?
> > > > >
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> > > > >





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