The patch titled
Subject: mm,page_owner: fix refcount imbalance
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is
mmpage_owner-fix-refcount-imbalance.patch
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mmpage_owner-fix-refcount-imbalance.patch
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From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm,page_owner: fix refcount imbalance
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 09:07:00 +0200
Current code does not contemplate scenarios were an allocation and free
operation on the same pages do not handle it in the same amount at once.
To give an example, page_alloc_exact(), where we will allocate a page of
enough order to stafisfy the size request, but we will free the remainings
right away.
In the above example, we will increment the stack_record refcount only
once, but we will decrease it the same number of times as number of unused
pages we have to free. This will lead to a warning because of refcount
imbalance.
Fix this by recording the number of base pages in the refcount field.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240404070702.2744-3-osalvador@xxxxxxx
Reported-by: syzbot+41bbfdb8d41003d12c0f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/00000000000090e8ff0613eda0e5@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 217b2119b9e2 ("mm,page_owner: implement the tracking of the stacks count")
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst | 73 +++++++++++++++---------------
mm/page_owner.c | 34 ++++++++-----
2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst~mmpage_owner-fix-refcount-imbalance
+++ a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ fragmentation statistics can be obtained
each page. It is already implemented and activated if page owner is
enabled. Other usages are more than welcome.
-It can also be used to show all the stacks and their outstanding
-allocations, which gives us a quick overview of where the memory is going
-without the need to screen through all the pages and match the allocation
-and free operation.
+It can also be used to show all the stacks and their current number of
+allocated base pages, which gives us a quick overview of where the memory
+is going without the need to screen through all the pages and match the
+allocation and free operation.
page owner is disabled by default. So, if you'd like to use it, you need
to add "page_owner=on" to your boot cmdline. If the kernel is built
@@ -75,42 +75,45 @@ Usage
cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks > stacks.txt
cat stacks.txt
- prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120
- get_page_from_freelist+0x7e6/0x2140
- __alloc_pages+0x18a/0x370
- new_slab+0xc8/0x580
- ___slab_alloc+0x1f2/0xaf0
- __slab_alloc.isra.86+0x22/0x40
- kmem_cache_alloc+0x31b/0x350
- __khugepaged_enter+0x39/0x100
- dup_mmap+0x1c7/0x5ce
- copy_process+0x1afe/0x1c90
- kernel_clone+0x9a/0x3c0
- __do_sys_clone+0x66/0x90
- do_syscall_64+0x7f/0x160
- entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0x74
- stack_count: 234
+ post_alloc_hook+0x177/0x1a0
+ get_page_from_freelist+0xd01/0xd80
+ __alloc_pages+0x39e/0x7e0
+ allocate_slab+0xbc/0x3f0
+ ___slab_alloc+0x528/0x8a0
+ kmem_cache_alloc+0x224/0x3b0
+ sk_prot_alloc+0x58/0x1a0
+ sk_alloc+0x32/0x4f0
+ inet_create+0x427/0xb50
+ __sock_create+0x2e4/0x650
+ inet_ctl_sock_create+0x30/0x180
+ igmp_net_init+0xc1/0x130
+ ops_init+0x167/0x410
+ setup_net+0x304/0xa60
+ copy_net_ns+0x29b/0x4a0
+ create_new_namespaces+0x4a1/0x820
+ nr_base_pages: 16
...
...
echo 7000 > /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/count_threshold
cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks> stacks_7000.txt
cat stacks_7000.txt
- prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120
- get_page_from_freelist+0x7e6/0x2140
- __alloc_pages+0x18a/0x370
- alloc_pages_mpol+0xdf/0x1e0
- folio_alloc+0x14/0x50
- filemap_alloc_folio+0xb0/0x100
- page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x97/0x180
- filemap_fault+0x4b4/0x1200
- __do_fault+0x2d/0x110
- do_pte_missing+0x4b0/0xa30
- __handle_mm_fault+0x7fa/0xb70
- handle_mm_fault+0x125/0x300
- do_user_addr_fault+0x3c9/0x840
- exc_page_fault+0x68/0x150
- asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
- stack_count: 8248
+ post_alloc_hook+0x177/0x1a0
+ get_page_from_freelist+0xd01/0xd80
+ __alloc_pages+0x39e/0x7e0
+ alloc_pages_mpol+0x22e/0x490
+ folio_alloc+0xd5/0x110
+ filemap_alloc_folio+0x78/0x230
+ page_cache_ra_order+0x287/0x6f0
+ filemap_get_pages+0x517/0x1160
+ filemap_read+0x304/0x9f0
+ xfs_file_buffered_read+0xe6/0x1d0 [xfs]
+ xfs_file_read_iter+0x1f0/0x380 [xfs]
+ __kernel_read+0x3b9/0x730
+ kernel_read_file+0x309/0x4d0
+ __do_sys_finit_module+0x381/0x730
+ do_syscall_64+0x8d/0x150
+ entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x62/0x6a
+ nr_base_pages: 20824
...
cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner > page_owner_full.txt
--- a/mm/page_owner.c~mmpage_owner-fix-refcount-imbalance
+++ a/mm/page_owner.c
@@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ static void add_stack_record_to_list(str
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&stack_list_lock, flags);
}
-static void inc_stack_record_count(depot_stack_handle_t handle, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+static void inc_stack_record_count(depot_stack_handle_t handle, gfp_t gfp_mask,
+ int nr_base_pages)
{
struct stack_record *stack_record = __stack_depot_get_stack_record(handle);
@@ -217,15 +218,20 @@ static void inc_stack_record_count(depot
/* Add the new stack_record to our list */
add_stack_record_to_list(stack_record, gfp_mask);
}
- refcount_inc(&stack_record->count);
+ refcount_add(nr_base_pages, &stack_record->count);
}
-static void dec_stack_record_count(depot_stack_handle_t handle)
+static void dec_stack_record_count(depot_stack_handle_t handle,
+ int nr_base_pages)
{
struct stack_record *stack_record = __stack_depot_get_stack_record(handle);
- if (stack_record)
- refcount_dec(&stack_record->count);
+ if (!stack_record)
+ return;
+
+ if (refcount_sub_and_test(nr_base_pages, &stack_record->count))
+ pr_warn("%s: refcount went to 0 for %u handle\n", __func__,
+ handle);
}
static inline void __update_page_owner_handle(struct page_ext *page_ext,
@@ -306,7 +312,7 @@ void __reset_page_owner(struct page *pag
* the machinery is not ready yet, we cannot decrement
* their refcount either.
*/
- dec_stack_record_count(alloc_handle);
+ dec_stack_record_count(alloc_handle, 1 << order);
}
noinline void __set_page_owner(struct page *page, unsigned short order,
@@ -325,7 +331,7 @@ noinline void __set_page_owner(struct pa
current->pid, current->tgid, ts_nsec,
current->comm);
page_ext_put(page_ext);
- inc_stack_record_count(handle, gfp_mask);
+ inc_stack_record_count(handle, gfp_mask, 1 << order);
}
void __set_page_owner_migrate_reason(struct page *page, int reason)
@@ -872,11 +878,11 @@ static void *stack_next(struct seq_file
return stack;
}
-static unsigned long page_owner_stack_threshold;
+static unsigned long page_owner_pages_threshold;
static int stack_print(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
{
- int i, stack_count;
+ int i, nr_base_pages;
struct stack *stack = v;
unsigned long *entries;
unsigned long nr_entries;
@@ -887,14 +893,14 @@ static int stack_print(struct seq_file *
nr_entries = stack_record->size;
entries = stack_record->entries;
- stack_count = refcount_read(&stack_record->count) - 1;
+ nr_base_pages = refcount_read(&stack_record->count) - 1;
- if (stack_count < 1 || stack_count < page_owner_stack_threshold)
+ if (nr_base_pages < 1 || nr_base_pages < page_owner_pages_threshold)
return 0;
for (i = 0; i < nr_entries; i++)
seq_printf(m, " %pS\n", (void *)entries[i]);
- seq_printf(m, "stack_count: %d\n\n", stack_count);
+ seq_printf(m, "nr_base_pages: %d\n\n", nr_base_pages);
return 0;
}
@@ -924,13 +930,13 @@ static const struct file_operations page
static int page_owner_threshold_get(void *data, u64 *val)
{
- *val = READ_ONCE(page_owner_stack_threshold);
+ *val = READ_ONCE(page_owner_pages_threshold);
return 0;
}
static int page_owner_threshold_set(void *data, u64 val)
{
- WRITE_ONCE(page_owner_stack_threshold, val);
+ WRITE_ONCE(page_owner_pages_threshold, val);
return 0;
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from osalvador@xxxxxxx are
mmpage_owner-update-metadata-for-tail-pages.patch
mmpage_owner-fix-refcount-imbalance.patch
mmpage_owner-fix-accounting-of-pages-when-migrating.patch
mmpage_owner-fix-printing-of-stack-records.patch
