get_zone_device_page() in get_page() and page_cache_get_speculative()

["Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:46:51PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:52 AM, tip-bot for Kirill A. Shutemov
> <tipbot@zytor.com> wrote:
> > Commit-ID:  2947ba054a4dabbd82848728d765346886050029
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/2947ba054a4dabbd82848728d765346886050029
> > Author:     Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> > AuthorDate: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:39:06 +0300
> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > CommitDate: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:48:03 +0100
> >
> > x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic get_user_page_fast() implementation
> >
> > This patch provides all required callbacks required by the generic
> > get_user_pages_fast() code and switches x86 over - and removes
> > the platform specific implementation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Aneesh Kumar K . V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> > Cc: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
> > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170316213906.89528-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
> > [ Minor readability edits. ]
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> 
> I'm still trying to spot the bug, but bisect points to this patch as
> the point at which my unit tests start failing with the following
> signature:
> 
> [   35.423841] WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 245 at lib/percpu-refcount.c:155
> percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_rcu+0x1f5/0x200

Okay, I've tracked it down. The issue is triggered by replacment
get_page() with page_cache_get_speculative().

page_cache_get_speculative() doesn't have get_zone_device_page(). :-|

And I think it's your bug, Dan: it's wrong to have
get_/put_zone_device_page() in get_/put_page(). I must be handled by
page_ref_* machinery to catch all cases where we manipulate with page
refcount.

Back to the big picture:

I hate that we need to have such additional code in page refcount
primitives. I worked hard to remove compound page ugliness from there and
now zone_device creeping in...

Is it the only option?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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