Re: [PATCH] mm: mempolicy: fix THP allocations escaping mempolicy restrictions

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On Wed 08-12-21 19:53:43, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> alloc_pages_vma() may try to allocate THP page on the local
> NUMA node first:
> 	page = __alloc_pages_node(hpage_node,
> 		gfp | __GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NORETRY, order);
> 
> And if the allocation fails it retries allowing remote memory:
> 
> 	if (!page && (gfp & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM))
>     		page = __alloc_pages_node(hpage_node,
> 					gfp, order);
> 
> However, this retry allocation completely ignores memory policy
> nodemask allowing allocation to escape restrictions.
> 
> The first appearance of this bug seems to be the commit ac5b2c18911f
>  ("mm: thp: relax __GFP_THISNODE for MADV_HUGEPAGE mappings")
> The bug disappeared later in the commit 89c83fb539f9
>  ("mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask")
> and reappeared again in slightly different form in the commit 76e654cc91bb
>  ("mm, page_alloc: allow hugepage fallback to remote nodes when madvised")
> 
> Fix this by passing correct nodemask to the __alloc_pages() call.
> 
> The demonstration/reproducer of the problem:
>  $ mount -oremount,size=4G,huge=always /dev/shm/
>  $ echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
>  $ cat mbind_thp.c
>  #include <unistd.h>
>  #include <sys/mman.h>
>  #include <sys/stat.h>
>  #include <fcntl.h>
>  #include <assert.h>
>  #include <stdlib.h>
>  #include <stdio.h>
>  #include <numaif.h>
> 
>  #define SIZE 2ULL << 30
>  int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  {
>    int fd;
>    unsigned long long i;
>    char *addr;
>    pid_t pid;
>    char buf[100];
>    unsigned long nodemask = 1;
> 
>    fd = open("/dev/shm/test", O_RDWR|O_CREAT);
>    assert(fd > 0);
>    assert(ftruncate(fd, SIZE) == 0);
> 
>    addr = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
>                         MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
> 
>    assert(mbind(addr, SIZE, MPOL_BIND, &nodemask, 2, MPOL_MF_STRICT|MPOL_MF_MOVE)==0);
>    for (i = 0; i < SIZE; i+=4096) {
>      addr[i] = 1;
>    }
>    pid = getpid();
>    snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "grep shm /proc/%d/numa_maps", pid);
>    system(buf);
>    sleep(10000);
> 
>    return 0;
>  }
>  $ gcc mbind_thp.c -o mbind_thp -lnuma
>  $ numactl -H
>  available: 2 nodes (0-1)
>  node 0 cpus: 0 2
>  node 0 size: 1918 MB
>  node 0 free: 1595 MB
>  node 1 cpus: 1 3
>  node 1 size: 2014 MB
>  node 1 free: 1731 MB
>  node distances:
>  node   0   1
>    0:  10  20
>    1:  20  10
>  $ rm -f /dev/shm/test; taskset -c 0 ./mbind_thp
>  7fd970a00000 bind:0 file=/dev/shm/test dirty=524288 active=0 N0=396800 N1=127488 kernelpagesize_kB=4
> 
> Fixes: ac5b2c18911f ("mm: thp: relax __GFP_THISNODE for MADV_HUGEPAGE mappings")
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <arbn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me.
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> ---
>  mm/mempolicy.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
> index 10e9c87260ed..f6248affaf38 100644
> --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
> +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
> @@ -2140,8 +2140,7 @@ struct page *alloc_pages_vma(gfp_t gfp, int order, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  			 * memory with both reclaim and compact as well.
>  			 */
>  			if (!page && (gfp & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM))
> -				page = __alloc_pages_node(hpage_node,
> -								gfp, order);
> +				page = __alloc_pages(gfp, order, hpage_node, nmask);
>  
>  			goto out;
>  		}
> -- 
> 2.32.0

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs



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