mremap: enforce rmap src/dst vma ordering in case of vma_merge() succeeding in copy_vma()
migrate was doing an rmap_walk with speculative lock-less access on
pagetables. That could lead it to not serializing properly against mremap
PT locks. But a second problem remains in the order of vmas in the
same_anon_vma list used by the rmap_walk.
If vma_merge succeeds in copy_vma, the src vma could be placed after the
dst vma in the same_anon_vma list. That could still lead to migrate
missing some pte.
This patch adds an anon_vma_moveto_tail() function to force the dst vma at
the end of the list before mremap starts to solve the problem.
If the mremap is very large and there are a lots of parents or childs
sharing the anon_vma root lock, this should still scale better than taking
the anon_vma root lock around every pte copy practically for the whole
duration of mremap.
Update: Hugh noticed special care is needed in the error path where
move_page_tables goes in the reverse direction, a second
anon_vma_moveto_tail() call is needed in the error path.
This program exercises the anon_vma_moveto_tail:
===
int main()
{
static struct timeval oldstamp, newstamp;
long diffsec;
char *p, *p2, *p3, *p4;
if (posix_memalign((void **)&p, 2*1024*1024, SIZE))
perror("memalign"), exit(1);
if (posix_memalign((void **)&p2, 2*1024*1024, SIZE))
perror("memalign"), exit(1);
if (posix_memalign((void **)&p3, 2*1024*1024, SIZE))
perror("memalign"), exit(1);
memset(p, 0xff, SIZE);
printf("%p\n", p);
memset(p2, 0xff, SIZE);
memset(p3, 0x77, 4096);
if (memcmp(p, p2, SIZE))
printf("error\n");
p4 = mremap(p+SIZE/2, SIZE/2, SIZE/2, MREMAP_FIXED|MREMAP_MAYMOVE, p3);
if (p4 != p3)
perror("mremap"), exit(1);
p4 = mremap(p4, SIZE/2, SIZE/2, MREMAP_FIXED|MREMAP_MAYMOVE, p+SIZE/2);
if (p4 != p+SIZE/2)
perror("mremap"), exit(1);
if (memcmp(p, p2, SIZE))
printf("error\n");
printf("ok\n");
return 0;
}
===
$ perf probe -a anon_vma_moveto_tail
Add new event:
probe:anon_vma_moveto_tail (on anon_vma_moveto_tail)
You can now use it on all perf tools, such as:
perf record -e probe:anon_vma_moveto_tail -aR sleep 1
$ perf record -e probe:anon_vma_moveto_tail -aR ./anon_vma_moveto_tail
0x7f2ca2800000
ok
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.043 MB perf.data (~1860 samples) ]
$ perf report --stdio
100.00% anon_vma_moveto [kernel.kallsyms] [k] anon_vma_moveto_tail
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Pawel Sikora <pluto@agmk.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index d6959cb..87bb839 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -221,6 +221,15 @@
moved_len = move_page_tables(vma, old_addr, new_vma, new_addr, old_len);
if (moved_len < old_len) {
/*
+ * Before moving the page tables from the new vma to
+ * the old vma, we need to be sure the old vma is
+ * queued after new vma in the same_anon_vma list to
+ * prevent SMP races with rmap_walk (that could lead
+ * rmap_walk to miss some page table).
+ */
+ anon_vma_moveto_tail(vma);
+
+ /*
* On error, move entries back from new area to old,
* which will succeed since page tables still there,
* and then proceed to unmap new area instead of old.