Re: [PATCH V4 1/6] mm: Introduce a general RCU get_user_pages_fast.

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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:06:18PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 12:44:28 +0100
> 
> > Also, as a heads up for Sparc. I don't see any definition of
> > __get_user_pages_fast. Does this mean that a futex on THP tail page
> > can cause an infinite loop?
> 
> I have no idea, I didn't realize this was required to be implemented.

In get_futex_key, a call is made to __get_user_pages_fast to handle the
case where a THP tail page needs to be pinned for the futex. There is a
stock implementation of __get_user_pages_fast, but this is just an
empty function that returns 0. Unfortunately this will provoke a goto
to "again:" and end up in an infinite loop. The process will appear
to hang with a high system cpu usage.

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