mm: hugetlbfs: fix hugetlbfs optimization
Commit 7cb2ef56e6a8 ("mm: fix aio performance regression for database
caused by THP") can cause dereference of a dangling pointer if
split_huge_page runs during PageHuge() if there are updates to the
tail_page->private field.
Also it is repeating compound_head twice for hugetlbfs and it is running
compound_head+compound_trans_head for THP when a single one is needed in
both cases.
The new code within the PageSlab() check doesn't need to verify that the
THP page size is never bigger than the smallest hugetlbfs page size, to
avoid memory corruption.
A longstanding theoretical race condition was found while fixing the
above (see the change right after the skip_unlock label, that is
relevant for the compound_lock path too).
By re-establishing the _mapcount tail refcounting for all compound
pages, this also fixes the below problem:
echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
BUG: Bad page state in process bash pfn:59a01
page:ffffea000139b038 count:0 mapcount:10 mapping: (null) index:0x0
page flags: 0x1c00000000008000(tail)
Modules linked in:
CPU: 6 PID: 2018 Comm: bash Not tainted 3.12.0+ #25
Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x55/0x76
bad_page+0xd5/0x130
free_pages_prepare+0x213/0x280
__free_pages+0x36/0x80
update_and_free_page+0xc1/0xd0
free_pool_huge_page+0xc2/0xe0
set_max_huge_pages.part.58+0x14c/0x220
nr_hugepages_store_common.isra.60+0xd0/0xf0
nr_hugepages_store+0x13/0x20
kobj_attr_store+0xf/0x20
sysfs_write_file+0x189/0x1e0
vfs_write+0xc5/0x1f0
SyS_write+0x55/0xb0
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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