This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86,mm: fix pte_special versus pte_numa
to the 3.16-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:
x86-mm-fix-pte_special-versus-pte_numa.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b38af4721f59d0b564468f623b3e52a638195015 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:18:44 -0700
Subject: x86,mm: fix pte_special versus pte_numa
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit b38af4721f59d0b564468f623b3e52a638195015 upstream.
Sasha Levin has shown oopses on ffffea0003480048 and ffffea0003480008 at
mm/memory.c:1132, running Trinity on different 3.16-rc-next kernels:
where zap_pte_range() checks page->mapping to see if PageAnon(page).
Those addresses fit struct pages for pfns d2001 and d2000, and in each
dump a register or a stack slot showed d2001730 or d2000730: pte flags
0x730 are PCD ACCESSED PROTNONE SPECIAL IOMAP; and Sasha's e820 map has
a hole between cfffffff and 100000000, which would need special access.
Commit c46a7c817e66 ("x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on
the PMD and PTE levels") has broken vm_normal_page(): a PROTNONE SPECIAL
pte no longer passes the pte_special() test, so zap_pte_range() goes on
to try to access a non-existent struct page.
Fix this by refining pte_special() (SPECIAL with PRESENT or PROTNONE) to
complement pte_numa() (SPECIAL with neither PRESENT nor PROTNONE). A
hint that this was a problem was that c46a7c817e66 added pte_numa() test
to vm_normal_page(), and moved its is_zero_pfn() test from slow to fast
path: This was papering over a pte_special() snag when the zero page was
encountered during zap. This patch reverts vm_normal_page() to how it
was before, relying on pte_special().
It still appears that this patch may be incomplete: aren't there other
places which need to be handling PROTNONE along with PRESENT? For
example, pte_mknuma() clears _PAGE_PRESENT and sets _PAGE_NUMA, but on a
PROT_NONE area, that would make it pte_special(). This is side-stepped
by the fact that NUMA hinting faults skipped PROT_NONE VMAs and there
are no grounds where a NUMA hinting fault on a PROT_NONE VMA would be
interesting.
Fixes: c46a7c817e66 ("x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on the PMD and PTE levels")
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 9 +++++++--
mm/memory.c | 7 +++----
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -131,8 +131,13 @@ static inline int pte_exec(pte_t pte)
static inline int pte_special(pte_t pte)
{
- return (pte_flags(pte) & (_PAGE_PRESENT|_PAGE_SPECIAL)) ==
- (_PAGE_PRESENT|_PAGE_SPECIAL);
+ /*
+ * See CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING pte_numa in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h.
+ * On x86 we have _PAGE_BIT_NUMA == _PAGE_BIT_GLOBAL+1 ==
+ * __PAGE_BIT_SOFTW1 == _PAGE_BIT_SPECIAL.
+ */
+ return (pte_flags(pte) & _PAGE_SPECIAL) &&
+ (pte_flags(pte) & (_PAGE_PRESENT|_PAGE_PROTNONE));
}
static inline unsigned long pte_pfn(pte_t pte)
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ struct page *vm_normal_page(struct vm_ar
unsigned long pfn = pte_pfn(pte);
if (HAVE_PTE_SPECIAL) {
- if (likely(!pte_special(pte) || pte_numa(pte)))
+ if (likely(!pte_special(pte)))
goto check_pfn;
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP))
return NULL;
@@ -777,15 +777,14 @@ struct page *vm_normal_page(struct vm_ar
}
}
+ if (is_zero_pfn(pfn))
+ return NULL;
check_pfn:
if (unlikely(pfn > highest_memmap_pfn)) {
print_bad_pte(vma, addr, pte, NULL);
return NULL;
}
- if (is_zero_pfn(pfn))
- return NULL;
-
/*
* NOTE! We still have PageReserved() pages in the page tables.
* eg. VDSO mappings can cause them to exist.
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/x86-mm-fix-pte_special-versus-pte_numa.patch
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