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authorPavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>2020-09-18 21:20:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-09-19 13:13:39 -0700
commit9683182612214aa5f5e709fad49444b847cd866a (patch)
treecc74de6c888e1625130be74f1dfcec58f915543a /mm/page_isolation.c
parent1ec882fc81e3177faf055877310dbdb0c68eb7db (diff)
downloadlinux-9683182612214aa5f5e709fad49444b847cd866a.tar.bz2
mm/memory_hotplug: drain per-cpu pages again during memory offline
There is a race during page offline that can lead to infinite loop: a page never ends up on a buddy list and __offline_pages() keeps retrying infinitely or until a termination signal is received. Thread#1 - a new process: load_elf_binary begin_new_exec exec_mmap mmput exit_mmap tlb_finish_mmu tlb_flush_mmu release_pages free_unref_page_list free_unref_page_prepare set_pcppage_migratetype(page, migratetype); // Set page->index migration type below MIGRATE_PCPTYPES Thread#2 - hot-removes memory __offline_pages start_isolate_page_range set_migratetype_isolate set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_ISOLATE); Set migration type to MIGRATE_ISOLATE-> set drain_all_pages(zone); // drain per-cpu page lists to buddy allocator. Thread#1 - continue free_unref_page_commit migratetype = get_pcppage_migratetype(page); // get old migration type list_add(&page->lru, &pcp->lists[migratetype]); // add new page to already drained pcp list Thread#2 Never drains pcp again, and therefore gets stuck in the loop. The fix is to try to drain per-cpu lists again after check_pages_isolated_cb() fails. Fixes: c52e75935f8d ("mm: remove extra drain pages on pcp list") Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200903140032.380431-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200904151448.100489-2-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200904070235.GA15277@dhcp22.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/page_isolation.c b/mm/page_isolation.c
index 242c03121d73..63a3db10a8c0 100644
--- a/mm/page_isolation.c
+++ b/mm/page_isolation.c
@@ -170,6 +170,14 @@ __first_valid_page(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
* pageblocks we may have modified and return -EBUSY to caller. This
* prevents two threads from simultaneously working on overlapping ranges.
*
+ * Please note that there is no strong synchronization with the page allocator
+ * either. Pages might be freed while their page blocks are marked ISOLATED.
+ * In some cases pages might still end up on pcp lists and that would allow
+ * for their allocation even when they are in fact isolated already. Depending
+ * on how strong of a guarantee the caller needs drain_all_pages might be needed
+ * (e.g. __offline_pages will need to call it after check for isolated range for
+ * a next retry).
+ *
* Return: the number of isolated pageblocks on success and -EBUSY if any part
* of range cannot be isolated.
*/