Revision 3ad33b2436b545cbe8b28e53f3710432cad457ab authored by Lee Schermerhorn on 15 November 2007, 00:59:10 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 15 November 2007, 02:45:38 UTC
We hit the BUG_ON() in mm/rmap.c:vma_address() when trying to migrate via
mbind(MPOL_MF_MOVE) a non-anon region that spans multiple vmas.  For
anon-regions, we just fail to migrate any pages beyond the 1st vma in the
range.

This occurs because do_mbind() collects a list of pages to migrate by
calling check_range().  check_range() walks the task's mm, spanning vmas as
necessary, to collect the migratable pages into a list.  Then, do_mbind()
calls migrate_pages() passing the list of pages, a function to allocate new
pages based on vma policy [new_vma_page()], and a pointer to the first vma
of the range.

For each page in the list, new_vma_page() calls page_address_in_vma()
passing the page and the vma [first in range] to obtain the address to get
for alloc_page_vma().  The page address is needed to get interleaving
policy correct.  If the pages in the list come from multiple vmas,
eventually, new_page_address() will pass that page to page_address_in_vma()
with the incorrect vma.  For !PageAnon pages, this will result in a bug
check in rmap.c:vma_address().  For anon pages, vma_address() will just
return EFAULT and fail the migration.

This patch modifies new_vma_page() to check the return value from
page_address_in_vma().  If the return value is EFAULT, new_vma_page()
searchs forward via vm_next for the vma that maps the page--i.e., that does
not return EFAULT.  This assumes that the pages in the list handed to
migrate_pages() is in address order.  This is currently case.  The patch
documents this assumption in a new comment block for new_vma_page().

If new_vma_page() cannot locate the vma mapping the page in a forward
search in the mm, it will pass a NULL vma to alloc_page_vma().  This will
result in the allocation using the task policy, if any, else system default
policy.  This situation is unlikely, but the patch documents this behavior
with a comment.

Note, this patch results in restarting from the first vma in a multi-vma
range each time new_vma_page() is called.  If this is not acceptable, we
can make the vma argument a pointer, both in new_vma_page() and it's caller
unmap_and_move() so that the value held by the loop in migrate_pages()
always passes down the last vma in which a page was found.  This will
require changes to all new_page_t functions passed to migrate_pages().  Is
this necessary?

For this patch to work, we can't bug check in vma_address() for pages
outside the argument vma.  This patch removes the BUG_ON().  All other
callers [besides new_vma_page()] already check the return status.

Tested on x86_64, 4 node NUMA platform.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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a.out.h
/*
 *  include/asm-s390/a.out.h
 *
 *  S390 version
 *    Copyright (C) 1999 IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, IBM Corporation
 *
 *  Derived from "include/asm-i386/a.out.h"
 *    Copyright (C) 1992, Linus Torvalds
 *
 * I don't think we'll ever need a.out ...
 */

#ifndef __S390_A_OUT_H__
#define __S390_A_OUT_H__

struct exec
{
  unsigned long a_info;		/* Use macros N_MAGIC, etc for access */
  unsigned a_text;		/* length of text, in bytes */
  unsigned a_data;		/* length of data, in bytes */
  unsigned a_bss;		/* length of uninitialized data area for file, in bytes */
  unsigned a_syms;		/* length of symbol table data in file, in bytes */
  unsigned a_entry;		/* start address */
  unsigned a_trsize;		/* length of relocation info for text, in bytes */
  unsigned a_drsize;		/* length of relocation info for data, in bytes */
};

#define N_TRSIZE(a)	((a).a_trsize)
#define N_DRSIZE(a)	((a).a_drsize)
#define N_SYMSIZE(a)	((a).a_syms)

#ifdef __KERNEL__

#define STACK_TOP	TASK_SIZE
#define STACK_TOP_MAX	DEFAULT_TASK_SIZE

#endif

#endif /* __A_OUT_GNU_H__ */
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