From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35FAD6B01E3 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:07:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp ([10.0.50.74]) by fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp (Fujitsu Gateway) with ESMTP id o3R47Hd8019836 for (envelope-from kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:07:17 +0900 Received: from smail (m4 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB5E45DE6E for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:07:17 +0900 (JST) Received: from s4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.94]) by m4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1C545DE60 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:07:17 +0900 (JST) Received: from s4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059991DB803E for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:07:17 +0900 (JST) Received: from m107.s.css.fujitsu.com (m107.s.css.fujitsu.com [10.249.87.107]) by s4.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A541DB803F for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:07:16 +0900 (JST) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:03:19 +0900 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm,migration: Prevent rmap_walk_[anon|ksm] seeing the wrong VMA information Message-Id: <20100427130319.248cb8e1.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20100427125040.634f56b3.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <1272321478-28481-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1272321478-28481-3-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <20100427090706.7ca68e12.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100427125040.634f56b3.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Mel Gorman , Linux-MM , LKML , Minchan Kim , Christoph Lameter , Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton List-ID: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:50:40 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:07:06 +0900 > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:37:58 +0100 > > Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > > vma_adjust() is updating anon VMA information without any locks taken. > > > In contrast, file-backed mappings use the i_mmap_lock and this lack of > > > locking can result in races with page migration. During rmap_walk(), > > > vma_address() can return -EFAULT for an address that will soon be valid. > > > This leaves a dangling migration PTE behind which can later cause a BUG_ON > > > to trigger when the page is faulted in. > > > > > > With the recent anon_vma changes, there can be more than one anon_vma->lock > > > that can be taken in a anon_vma_chain but a second lock cannot be spinned > > > upon in case of deadlock. Instead, the rmap walker tries to take locks of > > > different anon_vma's. If the attempt fails, the operation is restarted. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman > > > > Ok, acquiring vma->anon_vma->spin_lock always sounds very safe. > > (but slow.) > > > > I'll test this, too. > > > > Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > > > > Sorry. reproduced. It seems the same bug before patch. > mapcount 1 -> unmap -> remap -> mapcount 0. And it was SwapCache. > Sorry again. It was _not_ SwapCache. Just SwapBacked. Thanks, -Kame -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org