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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCHi v2] mm: do not drop unused pages when userfaultd is running
Date: Mon,  2 Jul 2018 09:50:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180702075049.9157-1-borntraeger@de.ibm.com> (raw)

KVM guests on s390 can notify the host of unused pages. This can result
in pte_unused callbacks to be true for KVM guest memory.

If a page is unused (checked with pte_unused) we might drop this page
instead of paging it. This can have side-effects on userfaultd, when the
page in question was already migrated:

The next access of that page will trigger a fault and a user fault
instead of faulting in a new and empty zero page. As QEMU does not
expect a userfault on an already migrated page this migration will fail.

The most straightforward solution is to ignore the pte_unused hint if a
userfault context is active for this VMA.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
---
rfc->v2: use userfaultfd_armed
 mm/rmap.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 6db729dc4c50..e8fa564676b6 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 #include <linux/page_idle.h>
 #include <linux/memremap.h>
+#include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
@@ -1481,7 +1482,7 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				set_pte_at(mm, address, pvmw.pte, pteval);
 			}
 
-		} else if (pte_unused(pteval)) {
+		} else if (pte_unused(pteval) && !userfaultfd_armed(vma)) {
 			/*
 			 * The guest indicated that the page content is of no
 			 * interest anymore. Simply discard the pte, vmscan
-- 
2.17.0

             reply	other threads:[~2018-07-02  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-02  7:50 Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2018-07-02 21:06 ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-03  5:23   ` Christian Borntraeger

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