remap_anon_pages (unlike remap_file_pages) tries to be non intrusive
in the rmap code.
As far as the rmap code is concerned, rmap_anon_pages only alters the
page->mapping and page->index. It does it while holding the page
lock. However there are a few places that in presence of anon pages
are allowed to do rmap walks without the page lock (split_huge_page
and page_referenced_anon). Those places that are doing rmap walks
without taking the page lock first, must be updated to re-check that
the page->mapping didn't change after they obtained the anon_vma
lock. remap_anon_pages takes the anon_vma lock for writing before
altering the page->mapping, so if the page->mapping is still the same
after obtaining the anon_vma lock (without the page lock), the rmap
walks can go ahead safely (and remap_anon_pages will wait them to
complete before proceeding).
remap_anon_pages serializes against itself with the page lock.
All other places taking the anon_vma lock while holding the mmap_sem
for writing, don't need to check if the page->mapping has changed
after taking the anon_vma lock, regardless of the page lock, because
remap_anon_pages holds the mmap_sem for reading.
Overall this looks a fairly small change to the rmap code, notably
less intrusive than the nonlinear vmas created by remap_file_pages.
There's one constraint enforced to allow this simplification: the
source pages passed to remap_anon_pages must be mapped only in one
vma, but this is not a limitation when used to handle userland page
faults with MADV_USERFAULT. The source addresses passed to
remap_anon_pages should be set as VM_DONTCOPY with MADV_DONTFORK to
avoid any risk of the mapcount of the pages increasing, if fork runs
in parallel in another thread, before or while remap_anon_pages runs.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
mm/rmap.c | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 1928463..94c37ca 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1907,6 +1907,7 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
{
struct anon_vma *anon_vma;
int ret = 1;
+ struct address_space *mapping;
BUG_ON(is_huge_zero_page(page));
BUG_ON(!PageAnon(page));
@@ -1918,10 +1919,24 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
* page_lock_anon_vma_read except the write lock is taken to serialise
* against parallel split or collapse operations.
*/
- anon_vma = page_get_anon_vma(page);
- if (!anon_vma)
- goto out;
- anon_vma_lock_write(anon_vma);
+ for (;;) {
+ mapping = ACCESS_ONCE(page->mapping);
+ anon_vma = page_get_anon_vma(page);
+ if (!anon_vma)
+ goto out;
+ anon_vma_lock_write(anon_vma);
+ /*
+ * We don't hold the page lock here so
+ * remap_anon_pages_huge_pmd can change the anon_vma
+ * from under us until we obtain the anon_vma
+ * lock. Verify that we obtained the anon_vma lock
+ * before remap_anon_pages did.
+ */
+ if (likely(mapping == ACCESS_ONCE(page->mapping)))
+ break;
+ anon_vma_unlock_write(anon_vma);
+ put_anon_vma(anon_vma);
+ }
ret = 0;
if (!PageCompound(page))
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
* Prevent all access to pagetables with the exception of
* gup_fast later hanlded by the ptep_clear_flush and the VM
* handled by the anon_vma lock + PG_lock.
+ * remap_anon_pages is prevented to race as well by the mmap_sem.
*/
down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
if (unlikely(khugepaged_test_exit(mm)))
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index b7e94eb..59a7e7d 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -450,6 +450,7 @@ struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma_read(struct page *page)
struct anon_vma *root_anon_vma;
unsigned long anon_mapping;
+repeat:
rcu_read_lock();
anon_mapping = (unsigned long) ACCESS_ONCE(page->mapping);
if ((anon_mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS) != PAGE_MAPPING_ANON)
@@ -488,6 +489,14 @@ struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma_read(struct page *page)
rcu_read_unlock();
anon_vma_lock_read(anon_vma);
+ /* check if remap_anon_pages changed the anon_vma */
+ if (unlikely((unsigned long) ACCESS_ONCE(page->mapping) != anon_mapping)) {
+ anon_vma_unlock_read(anon_vma);
+ put_anon_vma(anon_vma);
+ anon_vma = NULL;
+ goto repeat;
+ }
+
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&anon_vma->refcount)) {
/*
* Oops, we held the last refcount, release the lock
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