https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Revision 6988f31d558aa8c744464a7f6d91d34ada48ad12 authored by Konstantin Khlebnikov on 28 May 2020, 05:20:47 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 28 May 2020, 18:35:40 UTC
Replace superfluous VM_BUG_ON() with comment about correct usage.

Technically reverts commit 1d148e218a0d ("mm: add VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() to
page_mapcount()"), but context lines have changed.

Function isolate_migratepages_block() runs some checks out of lru_lock
when choose pages for migration.  After checking PageLRU() it checks
extra page references by comparing page_count() and page_mapcount().
Between these two checks page could be removed from lru, freed and taken
by slab.

As a result this race triggers VM_BUG_ON(PageSlab()) in page_mapcount().
Race window is tiny.  For certain workload this happens around once a
year.

    page:ffffea0105ca9380 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff88ff7712c180 index:0x0 compound_mapcount: 0
    flags: 0x500000000008100(slab|head)
    raw: 0500000000008100 dead000000000100 dead000000000200 ffff88ff7712c180
    raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080200020 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
    page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageSlab(page))
    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    kernel BUG at ./include/linux/mm.h:628!
    invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
    CPU: 77 PID: 504 Comm: kcompactd1 Tainted: G        W         4.19.109-27 #1
    Hardware name: Yandex T175-N41-Y3N/MY81-EX0-Y3N, BIOS R05 06/20/2019
    RIP: 0010:isolate_migratepages_block+0x986/0x9b0

The code in isolate_migratepages_block() was added in commit
119d6d59dcc0 ("mm, compaction: avoid isolating pinned pages") before
adding VM_BUG_ON into page_mapcount().

This race has been predicted in 2015 by Vlastimil Babka (see link
below).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: comment tweaks, per Hugh]
Fixes: 1d148e218a0d ("mm: add VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() to page_mapcount()")
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/159032779896.957378.7852761411265662220.stgit@buzz
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/557710E1.6060103@suse.cz/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/158937872515.474360.5066096871639561424.stgit@buzz/T/ (v1)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1 parent 2f33a70
History
Tip revision: 6988f31d558aa8c744464a7f6d91d34ada48ad12 authored by Konstantin Khlebnikov on 28 May 2020, 05:20:47 UTC
mm: remove VM_BUG_ON(PageSlab()) from page_mapcount()
Tip revision: 6988f31
File Mode Size
Documentation
LICENSES
arch
block
certs
crypto
drivers
fs
include
init
ipc
kernel
lib
mm
net
samples
scripts
security
sound
tools
usr
virt
.clang-format -rw-r--r-- 15.8 KB
.cocciconfig -rw-r--r-- 59 bytes
.get_maintainer.ignore -rw-r--r-- 71 bytes
.gitattributes -rw-r--r-- 62 bytes
.gitignore -rw-r--r-- 1.7 KB
.mailmap -rw-r--r-- 15.2 KB
COPYING -rw-r--r-- 496 bytes
CREDITS -rw-r--r-- 97.4 KB
Kbuild -rw-r--r-- 1.3 KB
Kconfig -rw-r--r-- 595 bytes
MAINTAINERS -rw-r--r-- 539.4 KB
Makefile -rw-r--r-- 60.3 KB
README -rw-r--r-- 727 bytes

README

back to top