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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2011-01-13 15:46:34 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:39 -0800
commita5b338f2b0b1ff73ae20c66ab831201549eaec01 (patch)
treea89787ea6d932d66651c4621ed70f855e596d1ff /kernel
parenta95a82e96c48270980dd248ccd5546f1b49e6f8a (diff)
downloadlinux-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.c55
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;
}