On 12/18/2013 05:36 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 12/18/2013 01:42 AM, Bob Liu wrote:
>> This BUG_ON() was triggered when called from try_to_unmap_cluster() which
>> didn't lock the page.
>> And it's safe to mlock_vma_page() without PageLocked, so this patch
>> fix this
>> issue by removing that BUG_ON() simply.
>
> I think it might be correct, but needs better explanation why it's safe.
> The check appeared in both mlock_vma_page and munlock_vma_page since the
> original commit b291f0003. Munlock definitely needs it for
> try_to_munlock(), but mlock doesn't seem to be doing anything that would
> need it.
>
> In case it's really not needed, it might be useful to remove the
> now-useless lock from the callers, if they acquire it just for this call.
Thank you, I will take a look at the place your mentioned.
> I quickly checked:
> - follow_trans_huge_pmd only rechecks page->mapping besides calling this
> so it might be a candidate?
> - try_to_merge_one_page is definitely a candidate
> - follow_page_mask checks page->mapping only outside of the lock, which
> seems strangely different from follow_trans_huge_pmd at first glance.
> So it only does lru_add_drain() under the lock and is probably a
> candidate. Or, it should be rechecking page->mapping as well.
>
I'm prefer to make this patch a separate one which just fixing the issue
Sasha reported in case more bugs might be introduced if removed lock
page in other place.
>
>> [ 253.869145] kernel BUG at mm/mlock.c:82!
>> [ 253.869549] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>> [ 253.870098] Dumping ftrace buffer:
>> [ 253.870098] (ftrace buffer empty)
>> [ 253.870098] Modules linked in:
>> [ 253.870098] CPU: 10 PID: 9162 Comm: trinity-child75 Tainted:
>> G W
>> 3.13.0-rc4-next-20131216-sasha-00011-g5f105ec-dirty #4137
>> [ 253.873310] task: ffff8800c98cb000 ti: ffff8804d34e8000 task.ti:
>> ffff8804d34e8000
>> [ 253.873310] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81281f28>] [<ffffffff81281f28>]
>> mlock_vma_page+0x18/0xc0
>> [ 253.873310] RSP: 0000:ffff8804d34e99e8 EFLAGS: 00010246
>> [ 253.873310] RAX: 006fffff8038002c RBX: ffffea00474944c0 RCX:
>> ffff880807636000
>> [ 253.873310] RDX: ffffea0000000000 RSI: 00007f17a9bca000 RDI:
>> ffffea00474944c0
>> [ 253.873310] RBP: ffff8804d34e99f8 R08: ffff880807020000 R09:
>> 0000000000000000
>> [ 253.873310] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000002000 R12:
>> 00007f17a9bca000
>> [ 253.873310] R13: ffffea00474944c0 R14: 00007f17a9be0000 R15:
>> ffff880807020000
>> [ 253.873310] FS: 00007f17aa31a700(0000) GS:ffff8801c9c00000(0000)
>> knlGS:0000000000000000
>> [ 253.873310] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
>> [ 253.873310] CR2: 00007f17a94fa000 CR3: 00000004d3b02000 CR4:
>> 00000000000006e0
>> [ 253.873310] DR0: 00007f17a74ca000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2:
>> 0000000000000000
>> [ 253.873310] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7:
>> 0000000000000600
>> [ 253.873310] Stack:
>> [ 253.873310] 0000000b3de28067 ffff880b3de28e50 ffff8804d34e9aa8
>> ffffffff8128bc31
>> [ 253.873310] 0000000000000301 ffffea0011850220 ffff8809a4039000
>> ffffea0011850238
>> [ 253.873310] ffff8804d34e9aa8 ffff880807636060 0000000000000001
>> ffff880807636348
>> [ 253.873310] Call Trace:
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff8128bc31>] try_to_unmap_cluster+0x1c1/0x340
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff8128c60a>] try_to_unmap_file+0x20a/0x2e0
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff8128c7b3>] try_to_unmap+0x73/0x90
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff812b526d>] __unmap_and_move+0x18d/0x250
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff812b53e9>] unmap_and_move+0xb9/0x180
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff812b559b>] migrate_pages+0xeb/0x2f0
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff812a0660>] ? queue_pages_pte_range+0x1a0/0x1a0
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff812a193c>] migrate_to_node+0x9c/0xc0
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff812a30b8>] do_migrate_pages+0x1b8/0x240
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff812a3456>] SYSC_migrate_pages+0x316/0x380
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff812a31ec>] ? SYSC_migrate_pages+0xac/0x380
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff811763c6>] ? vtime_account_user+0x96/0xb0
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff812a34ce>] SyS_migrate_pages+0xe/0x10
>> [ 253.873310] [<ffffffff843c4990>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
>> [ 253.873310] Code: 0f 1f 00 65 48 ff 04 25 10 25 1d 00 48 83 c4 08
>> 5b c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 53 48 83 ec 08 66 66 66 66 90 48 8b 07 48 89 fb
>> a8 01 75 10 <0f> 0b 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 eb fe 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 f0 0f ba
>> 2f 15
>> [ 253.873310] RIP [<ffffffff81281f28>] mlock_vma_page+0x18/0xc0
>> [ 253.873310] RSP <ffff8804d34e99e8>
>> [ 253.904194] ---[ end trace be59c4a7f8edab3f ]---
>>
>> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/mlock.c | 2 --
>> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
>> index d480cd6..5488d44 100644
>> --- a/mm/mlock.c
>> +++ b/mm/mlock.c
>> @@ -79,8 +79,6 @@ void clear_page_mlock(struct page *page)
>> */
>> void mlock_vma_page(struct page *page)
>> {
>> - BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
>> -
>> if (!TestSetPageMlocked(page)) {
>> mod_zone_page_state(page_zone(page), NR_MLOCK,
>> hpage_nr_pages(page));
>>
>
--
Regards,
-Bob
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