[patch 01/11] mm: do not drop unused pages when userfaultd is running

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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: do not drop unused pages when userfaultd is running

KVM guests on s390 can notify the host of unused pages.  This can result
in pte_unused callbacks to be true for KVM guest memory.

If a page is unused (checked with pte_unused) we might drop this page
instead of paging it.  This can have side-effects on userfaultd, when the
page in question was already migrated:

The next access of that page will trigger a fault and a user fault instead
of faulting in a new and empty zero page.  As QEMU does not expect a
userfault on an already migrated page this migration will fail.

The most straightforward solution is to ignore the pte_unused hint if a
userfault context is active for this VMA.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703171854.63981-1-borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/rmap.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN mm/rmap.c~mm-do-not-drop-unused-pages-when-userfaultd-is-running mm/rmap.c
--- a/mm/rmap.c~mm-do-not-drop-unused-pages-when-userfaultd-is-running
+++ a/mm/rmap.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 #include <linux/page_idle.h>
 #include <linux/memremap.h>
+#include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
@@ -1481,11 +1482,16 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct page
 				set_pte_at(mm, address, pvmw.pte, pteval);
 			}
 
-		} else if (pte_unused(pteval)) {
+		} else if (pte_unused(pteval) && !userfaultfd_armed(vma)) {
 			/*
 			 * The guest indicated that the page content is of no
 			 * interest anymore. Simply discard the pte, vmscan
 			 * will take care of the rest.
+			 * A future reference will then fault in a new zero
+			 * page. When userfaultfd is active, we must not drop
+			 * this page though, as its main user (postcopy
+			 * migration) will not expect userfaults on already
+			 * copied pages.
 			 */
 			dec_mm_counter(mm, mm_counter(page));
 			/* We have to invalidate as we cleared the pte */
_



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