On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:52:03PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:17:13AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>
> < snip >
> > > diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> > > index 36c774f..7408ddc 100644
> > > --- a/mm/memory.c
> > > +++ b/mm/memory.c
> > > @@ -3637,18 +3637,20 @@ static int __handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
> > > if (pmd_protnone(orig_pmd) && vma_is_accessible(vma))
> > > return do_huge_pmd_numa_page(&vmf, orig_pmd);
> > >
> > > - if ((vmf.flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) &&
> > > - !pmd_write(orig_pmd)) {
> > > - ret = wp_huge_pmd(&vmf, orig_pmd);
> > > - if (!(ret & VM_FAULT_FALLBACK))
> > > + if (vmf.flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) {
> > > + if (!pmd_write(orig_pmd)) {
> > > + ret = wp_huge_pmd(&vmf, orig_pmd);
> > > + if (ret == VM_FAULT_FALLBACK)
> >
> > In theory, more than one flag can be set and it would lead to
> > false-negative. Bit check was the right thing.
> >
> > And I don't understand why do you need to change code in
> > __handle_mm_fault() at all.
> > From what I see change to huge_pmd_set_accessed() should be enough.
>
> Yeb. Thanks for the review. Here v2 goes.
>
> From b3ec95c0df91ad113525968a4a6b53030fd0b48d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 23:43:49 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH v2] mm: pmd dirty emulation in page fault handler
>
> Andreas reported [1] made a test in jemalloc hang in THP mode in arm64.
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/mvmmvfy37g1.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> The problem is page fault handler supports only accessed flag emulation
> for THP page of SW-dirty/accessed architecture.
>
> This patch enables dirty-bit emulation for those architectures.
> Without it, MADV_FREE makes application hang by repeated fault forever.
>
> [1] b8d3c4c3009d, mm/huge_memory.c: don't split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called
>
> Cc: Jason Evans <je@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [4.5+]
> Fixes: b8d3c4c3009d ("mm/huge_memory.c: don't split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is called")
> Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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