On Wed 08-01-14 20:09:30, Bob Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > If I was debugging this I would simply add printk into page_address_in_vma
> > error paths.
> >
> > Anyway, I think that at least hugetlbfs part should be reverted because
> > it might paper over real bugs. Although the migration would fail for
> > such hugetlb page we should catch that a weird page was tried to be
> > migrated. What about the patch below?
>
> Looks good to me. But we need to confirm whether our assumption is right.
Which assumption you have in mind? non-linear mapping or failing on
anon_vma or f_mapping checks?
> Sasha, could you please have a test with Michal's patch?
I obviously doesn't have anything against testing but we should really
focus on the original issue. This patch simply restores hugetlb code
path.
> Thanks,
> -Bob
>
> > ---
> > From 2d61421f26a3b63b4670d71b7adc67e2191b6157 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:57:41 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] mm: new_vma_page cannot see NULL vma for hugetlb pages
> >
> > 11c731e81bb0 (mm/mempolicy: fix !vma in new_vma_page()) has removed
> > BUG_ON(!vma) from new_vma_page which is partially correct because
> > page_address_in_vma will return EFAULT for non-linear mappings and at
> > least shared shmem might be mapped this way.
> >
> > The patch also tried to prevent NULL ptr for hugetlb pages which is not
> > correct AFAICS because hugetlb pages cannot be mapped as VM_NONLINEAR
> > and other conditions in page_address_in_vma seem to be legit and catch
> > real bugs.
> >
> > This patch restores BUG_ON for PageHuge to catch potential issues when
> > the to-be-migrated page is not setup properly.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > mm/mempolicy.c | 6 ++----
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
> > index 9e8d2d86978a..f3f51464a23b 100644
> > --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
> > +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
> > @@ -1199,10 +1199,8 @@ static struct page *new_vma_page(struct page *page, unsigned long private, int *
> > }
> >
> > if (PageHuge(page)) {
> > - if (vma)
> > - return alloc_huge_page_noerr(vma, address, 1);
> > - else
> > - return NULL;
> > + BUG_ON(vma)
> > + return alloc_huge_page_noerr(vma, address, 1);
> > }
> > /*
> > * if !vma, alloc_page_vma() will use task or system default policy
> > --
> > 1.8.5.2
> >
> > --
> > Michal Hocko
> > SUSE Labs
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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