On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 09:29:05PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 15:23 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch fix the below crash
> >
> > NIP [c00000000004cee4] .__hash_page_thp+0x2a4/0x440
> > LR [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0
> > ...
> > Call Trace:
> > [c000000736103c40] [00001ffffb000000] 0x1ffffb000000(unreliable)
> > [437908.479693] [c000000736103d50] [c0000000000439ac] .hash_page+0x18c/0x5e0
> > [437908.479699] [c000000736103e30] [c00000000000924c] .do_hash_page+0x4c/0x58
> >
> > On ppc64 we use the pgtable for storing the hpte slot information and
> > store address to the pgtable at a constant offset (PTRS_PER_PMD) from
> > pmd. On mremap, when we switch the pmd, we need to withdraw and deposit
> > the pgtable again, so that we find the pgtable at PTRS_PER_PMD offset
> > from new pmd.
> >
> > We also want to move the withdraw and deposit before the set_pmd so
> > that, when page fault find the pmd as trans huge we can be sure that
> > pgtable can be located at the offset.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > NOTE:
> > For other archs we would just be removing the pgtable from the list and adding it back.
> > I didn't find an easy way to make it not do that without lots of #ifdef around. Any
> > suggestion around that is welcome.
>
> What about
>
> - if (new_ptl != old_ptl) {
> + if (new_ptl != old_ptl || ARCH_THP_MOVE_PMD_ALWAYS_WITHDRAW) {
>
> Or something similar ?
Looks sane to me. Or something with IS_ENABLED(), if needed.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
> > mm/huge_memory.c | 21 ++++++++++-----------
> > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > index 7de1bf85f683..eb2e60d9ba45 100644
> > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > @@ -1500,24 +1500,23 @@ int move_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct *new_vma,
> > */
> > ret = __pmd_trans_huge_lock(old_pmd, vma, &old_ptl);
> > if (ret == 1) {
> > + pgtable_t pgtable;
> > +
> > new_ptl = pmd_lockptr(mm, new_pmd);
> > if (new_ptl != old_ptl)
> > spin_lock_nested(new_ptl, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
> > pmd = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pmd);
> > VM_BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*new_pmd));
> > + /*
> > + * Archs like ppc64 use pgtable to store per pmd
> > + * specific information. So when we switch the pmd,
> > + * we should also withdraw and deposit the pgtable
> > + */
> > + pgtable = pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(mm, old_pmd);
> > + pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(mm, new_pmd, pgtable);
> > set_pmd_at(mm, new_addr, new_pmd, pmd_mksoft_dirty(pmd));
> > - if (new_ptl != old_ptl) {
> > - pgtable_t pgtable;
> > -
> > - /*
> > - * Move preallocated PTE page table if new_pmd is on
> > - * different PMD page table.
> > - */
Please don't lose the comment.
> > - pgtable = pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(mm, old_pmd);
> > - pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(mm, new_pmd, pgtable);
> > -
> > + if (new_ptl != old_ptl)
> > spin_unlock(new_ptl);
> > - }
> > spin_unlock(old_ptl);
> > }
> > out:
>
>
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