+ hugetlbfs-add-swap-entry-check-in-follow_hugetlb_page.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: hugetlbfs: add swap entry check in follow_hugetlb_page()
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     hugetlbfs-add-swap-entry-check-in-follow_hugetlb_page.patch

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From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: hugetlbfs: add swap entry check in follow_hugetlb_page()

With applying the previous patch "hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in
initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB)" to reenable hugepage coredump, if a memory
error happens on a hugepage and the affected processes try to access the
error hugepage, we hit VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) <= 0) in
get_page().

The reason for this bug is that coredump-related code doesn't recognise
"hugepage hwpoison entry" with which a pmd entry is replaced when a memory
error occurs on a hugepage.

In other words, physical address information is stored in different bit
layout between hugepage hwpoison entry and pmd entry, so
follow_hugetlb_page() which is called in get_dump_page() returns a wrong
page from a given address.

The expected behavior is like this:

  absent   is_swap_pte   FOLL_DUMP   Expected behavior
  -------------------------------------------------------------------
   true     false         false       hugetlb_fault
   false    true          false       hugetlb_fault
   false    false         false       return page
   true     false         true        skip page (to avoid allocation)
   false    true          true        hugetlb_fault
   false    false         true        return page

With this patch, we can call hugetlb_fault() and take proper actions (we
wait for migration entries, fail with VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE for
hwpoisoned entries,) and as the result we can dump all hugepages except
for hwpoisoned ones.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>	[2.6.34+?]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/hugetlb.c |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlbfs-add-swap-entry-check-in-follow_hugetlb_page mm/hugetlb.c
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlbfs-add-swap-entry-check-in-follow_hugetlb_page
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2961,7 +2961,17 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struc
 			break;
 		}
 
-		if (absent ||
+		/*
+		 * We need call hugetlb_fault for both hugepages under migration
+		 * (in which case hugetlb_fault waits for the migration,) and
+		 * hwpoisoned hugepages (in which case we need to prevent the
+		 * caller from accessing to them.) In order to do this, we use
+		 * here is_swap_pte instead of is_hugetlb_entry_migration and
+		 * is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned. This is because it simply covers
+		 * both cases, and because we can't follow correct pages
+		 * directly from any kind of swap entries.
+		 */
+		if (absent || is_swap_pte(huge_ptep_get(pte)) ||
 		    ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_write(huge_ptep_get(pte)))) {
 			int ret;
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are

hugetlbfs-stop-setting-vm_dontdump-in-initializing-vmavm_hugetlb.patch
fix-hugetlb-memory-check-in-vma_dump_size.patch
hugetlbfs-add-swap-entry-check-in-follow_hugetlb_page.patch
hwpoison-check-dirty-flag-to-match-against-clean-page.patch

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