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| author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2010-05-24 14:32:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-05-25 08:06:59 -0700 |
| commit | a8bef8ff6ea15fa4c67433cab0f5f3484574ef7c (patch) | |
| tree | 3ea9c122e02f523379d4560ee2134124d097895c /include | |
| parent | e9e96b39f932a065e14f5d5bab0797ae261d03b5 (diff) | |
mm: migration: avoid race between shift_arg_pages() and rmap_walk() during migration by not migrating temporary stacks
Page migration requires rmap to be able to find all ptes mapping a page
at all times, otherwise the migration entry can be instantiated, but it
is possible to leave one behind if the second rmap_walk fails to find
the page. If this page is later faulted, migration_entry_to_page() will
call BUG because the page is locked indicating the page was migrated by
the migration PTE not cleaned up. For example
kernel BUG at include/linux/swapops.h:105!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810e951a>] handle_mm_fault+0x3f8/0x76a
[<ffffffff8130c7a2>] do_page_fault+0x44a/0x46e
[<ffffffff813099b5>] page_fault+0x25/0x30
[<ffffffff8114de33>] load_elf_binary+0x152a/0x192b
[<ffffffff8111329b>] search_binary_handler+0x173/0x313
[<ffffffff81114896>] do_execve+0x219/0x30a
[<ffffffff8100a5c6>] sys_execve+0x43/0x5e
[<ffffffff8100320a>] stub_execve+0x6a/0xc0
RIP [<ffffffff811094ff>] migration_entry_wait+0xc1/0x129
There is a race between shift_arg_pages and migration that triggers this
bug. A temporary stack is setup during exec and later moved. If
migration moves a page in the temporary stack and the VMA is then removed
before migration completes, the migration PTE may not be found leading to
a BUG when the stack is faulted.
This patch causes pages within the temporary stack during exec to be
skipped by migration. It does this by marking the VMA covering the
temporary stack with an otherwise impossible combination of VMA flags.
These flags are cleared when the temporary stack is moved to its final
location.
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: idea for having migration skip temporary stacks]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index fb19bb92b80..98ea5bab963 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); #define VM_PFN_AT_MMAP 0x40000000 /* PFNMAP vma that is fully mapped at mmap time */ #define VM_MERGEABLE 0x80000000 /* KSM may merge identical pages */ +/* Bits set in the VMA until the stack is in its final location */ +#define VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP (VM_RAND_READ | VM_SEQ_READ) + #ifndef VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS /* arch can override this */ #define VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS #endif |