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author | Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> | 2011-01-13 15:46:34 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-13 17:32:39 -0800 |
commit | a5b338f2b0b1ff73ae20c66ab831201549eaec01 (patch) | |
tree | a89787ea6d932d66651c4621ed70f855e596d1ff /kernel | |
parent | a95a82e96c48270980dd248ccd5546f1b49e6f8a (diff) | |
download | linux-a5b338f2b0b1ff73ae20c66ab831201549eaec01.tar.bz2 |
thp: update futex compound knowledge
Futex code is smarter than most other gup_fast O_DIRECT code and knows
about the compound internals. However now doing a put_page(head_page)
will not release the pin on the tail page taken by gup-fast, leading to
all sort of refcounting bugchecks. Getting a stable head_page is a little
tricky.
page_head = page is there because if this is not a tail page it's also the
page_head. Only in case this is a tail page, compound_head is called,
otherwise it's guaranteed unnecessary. And if it's a tail page
compound_head has to run atomically inside irq disabled section
__get_user_pages_fast before returning. Otherwise ->first_page won't be a
stable pointer.
Disableing irq before __get_user_page_fast and releasing irq after running
compound_head is needed because if __get_user_page_fast returns == 1, it
means the huge pmd is established and cannot go away from under us.
pmdp_splitting_flush_notify in __split_huge_page_splitting will have to
wait for local_irq_enable before the IPI delivery can return. This means
__split_huge_page_refcount can't be running from under us, and in turn
when we run compound_head(page) we're not reading a dangling pointer from
tailpage->first_page. Then after we get to stable head page, we are
always safe to call compound_lock and after taking the compound lock on
head page we can finally re-check if the page returned by gup-fast is
still a tail page. in which case we're set and we didn't need to split
the hugepage in order to take a futex on it.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/futex.c | 55 |
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index 3019b92e6917..52075633373f 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ get_futex_key(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared, union futex_key *key) { unsigned long address = (unsigned long)uaddr; struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; - struct page *page; + struct page *page, *page_head; int err; /* @@ -265,11 +265,46 @@ again: if (err < 0) return err; - page = compound_head(page); - lock_page(page); - if (!page->mapping) { - unlock_page(page); +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE + page_head = page; + if (unlikely(PageTail(page))) { put_page(page); + /* serialize against __split_huge_page_splitting() */ + local_irq_disable(); + if (likely(__get_user_pages_fast(address, 1, 1, &page) == 1)) { + page_head = compound_head(page); + /* + * page_head is valid pointer but we must pin + * it before taking the PG_lock and/or + * PG_compound_lock. The moment we re-enable + * irqs __split_huge_page_splitting() can + * return and the head page can be freed from + * under us. We can't take the PG_lock and/or + * PG_compound_lock on a page that could be + * freed from under us. + */ + if (page != page_head) { + get_page(page_head); + put_page(page); + } + local_irq_enable(); + } else { + local_irq_enable(); + goto again; + } + } +#else + page_head = compound_head(page); + if (page != page_head) { + get_page(page_head); + put_page(page); + } +#endif + + lock_page(page_head); + if (!page_head->mapping) { + unlock_page(page_head); + put_page(page_head); goto again; } @@ -280,20 +315,20 @@ again: * it's a read-only handle, it's expected that futexes attach to * the object not the particular process. */ - if (PageAnon(page)) { + if (PageAnon(page_head)) { key->both.offset |= FUT_OFF_MMSHARED; /* ref taken on mm */ key->private.mm = mm; key->private.address = address; } else { key->both.offset |= FUT_OFF_INODE; /* inode-based key */ - key->shared.inode = page->mapping->host; - key->shared.pgoff = page->index; + key->shared.inode = page_head->mapping->host; + key->shared.pgoff = page_head->index; } get_futex_key_refs(key); - unlock_page(page); - put_page(page); + unlock_page(page_head); + put_page(page_head); return 0; } |