This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: avoid reinserting isolated balloon pages into LRU lists
to the 3.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-avoid-reinserting-isolated-balloon-pages-into-lru-lists.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 117aad1e9e4d97448d1df3f84b08bd65811e6d6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:45:16 -0700
Subject: mm: avoid reinserting isolated balloon pages into LRU lists
From: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 117aad1e9e4d97448d1df3f84b08bd65811e6d6a upstream.
Isolated balloon pages can wrongly end up in LRU lists when
migrate_pages() finishes its round without draining all the isolated
page list.
The same issue can happen when reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() tries to
reclaim pages from an isolated page list, before migration, in the CMA
path. Such balloon page leak opens a race window against LRU lists
shrinkers that leads us to the following kernel panic:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
IP: [<ffffffff810c2625>] shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
PGD 3cda2067 PUD 3d713067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 340 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc1-22626-g4367597 #87
Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
RIP: shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
RSP: 0000:ffff88003da499b8 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88003e82bd60 RCX: 00000000000657d5
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000031f RDI: ffff88003e82bd40
RBP: ffff88003da49ab0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000081121a45
R10: ffffffff81121a45 R11: ffff88003c4a9a28 R12: ffff88003e82bd40
R13: ffff88003da0e800 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88003da49d58
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000067d9000 CR3: 000000003ace5000 CR4: 00000000000407b0
Call Trace:
shrink_inactive_list+0x240/0x3de
shrink_lruvec+0x3e0/0x566
__shrink_zone+0x94/0x178
shrink_zone+0x3a/0x82
balance_pgdat+0x32a/0x4c2
kswapd+0x2f0/0x372
kthread+0xa2/0xaa
ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
Code: 80 7d 8f 01 48 83 95 68 ff ff ff 00 4c 89 e7 e8 5a 7b 00 00 48 85 c0 49 89 c5 75 08 80 7d 8f 00 74 3e eb 31 48 8b 80 18 01 00 00 <48> 8b 74 0d 48 8b 78 30 be 02 00 00 00 ff d2 eb
RIP [<ffffffff810c2625>] shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
RSP <ffff88003da499b8>
CR2: 0000000000000028
---[ end trace 703d2451af6ffbfd ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
This patch fixes the issue, by assuring the proper tests are made at
putback_movable_pages() & reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() to avoid
isolated balloon pages being wrongly reinserted in LRU lists.
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: clarify awkward comment text]
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/balloon_compaction.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/migrate.c | 2 +-
mm/vmscan.c | 4 +++-
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
+++ b/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
@@ -159,6 +159,26 @@ static inline bool balloon_page_movable(
}
/*
+ * isolated_balloon_page - identify an isolated balloon page on private
+ * compaction/migration page lists.
+ *
+ * After a compaction thread isolates a balloon page for migration, it raises
+ * the page refcount to prevent concurrent compaction threads from re-isolating
+ * the same page. For that reason putback_movable_pages(), or other routines
+ * that need to identify isolated balloon pages on private pagelists, cannot
+ * rely on balloon_page_movable() to accomplish the task.
+ */
+static inline bool isolated_balloon_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ /* Already isolated balloon pages, by default, have a raised refcount */
+ if (page_flags_cleared(page) && !page_mapped(page) &&
+ page_count(page) >= 2)
+ return __is_movable_balloon_page(page);
+
+ return false;
+}
+
+/*
* balloon_page_insert - insert a page into the balloon's page list and make
* the page->mapping assignment accordingly.
* @page : page to be assigned as a 'balloon page'
@@ -242,6 +262,11 @@ static inline bool balloon_page_movable(
{
return false;
}
+
+static inline bool isolated_balloon_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ return false;
+}
static inline bool balloon_page_isolate(struct page *page)
{
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ void putback_movable_pages(struct list_h
list_del(&page->lru);
dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
page_is_file_cache(page));
- if (unlikely(balloon_page_movable(page)))
+ if (unlikely(isolated_balloon_page(page)))
balloon_page_putback(page);
else
putback_lru_page(page);
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
#include <asm/div64.h>
#include <linux/swapops.h>
+#include <linux/balloon_compaction.h>
#include "internal.h"
@@ -1060,7 +1061,8 @@ unsigned long reclaim_clean_pages_from_l
LIST_HEAD(clean_pages);
list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, page_list, lru) {
- if (page_is_file_cache(page) && !PageDirty(page)) {
+ if (page_is_file_cache(page) && !PageDirty(page) &&
+ !isolated_balloon_page(page)) {
ClearPageActive(page);
list_move(&page->lru, &clean_pages);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aquini@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.11/mm-avoid-reinserting-isolated-balloon-pages-into-lru-lists.patch
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