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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: [patch] mm: mremap correct rmap accounting
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:19:19 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B61967.5000302@yahoo.com.au> (raw)

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Just spotted this possible issue when searching for another bug. Am I right
in my thinking? I haven't dug out my x86-multi-ZERO_PAGE-patch to verify
(or actually test the patch :P).

Comments?

Nick

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.


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When mremap()ing virtual addresses, some architectures (read: MIPS) switches
underlying pages if encountering ZERO_PAGE(old_vaddr) != ZERO_PAGE(new_vaddr).

The problem is that the refcount and mapcount remain on the old page, while
the actual pte is switched to the new one. This would counter underruns and
confuse the rmap code.

Fix it by actually moving accounting info to the new page. Would it be neater
to do this in move_pte? maybe rmap.c? (nick mumbles something about not
accounting ZERO_PAGE()s)

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>


Index: linux-2.6/mm/mremap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/mremap.c	2007-01-24 01:00:53.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-2.6/mm/mremap.c	2007-01-24 01:01:16.000000000 +1100
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
 #include <linux/security.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/rmap.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_str
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = NULL;
 	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
-	pte_t *old_pte, *new_pte, pte;
+	pte_t *old_pte, *new_pte;
 	spinlock_t *old_ptl, *new_ptl;
 
 	if (vma->vm_file) {
@@ -102,12 +103,28 @@ static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_str
 
 	for (; old_addr < old_end; old_pte++, old_addr += PAGE_SIZE,
 				   new_pte++, new_addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
+		pte_t new, old;
+
 		if (pte_none(*old_pte))
 			continue;
-		pte = ptep_clear_flush(vma, old_addr, old_pte);
+		old = ptep_clear_flush(vma, old_addr, old_pte);
 		/* ZERO_PAGE can be dependant on virtual addr */
-		pte = move_pte(pte, new_vma->vm_page_prot, old_addr, new_addr);
-		set_pte_at(mm, new_addr, new_pte, pte);
+		new = move_pte(old, new_vma->vm_page_prot, old_addr, new_addr);
+		if (unlikely(pte_pfn(old) != pte_pfn(new))) {
+			struct page *page;
+			/* must be different ZERO_PAGE()es. Update accounting */
+
+			page = vm_normal_page(vma, old_addr, old);
+			BUG_ON(page != ZERO_PAGE(old_addr));
+			put_page(page);
+			page_remove_rmap(page, vma);
+
+			page = vm_normal_page(new_vma, new_addr, new);
+			BUG_ON(page != ZERO_PAGE(new_addr));
+			get_page(page);
+			page_add_file_rmap(page);
+		}
+		set_pte_at(mm, new_addr, new_pte, new);
 	}
 
 	arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();

             reply	other threads:[~2007-01-23 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-23 14:19 Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-01-23 20:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-23 23:49   ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-29  3:31   ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-29  6:40     ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-29  6:57       ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-29 19:08     ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-29 19:27       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-29 20:03         ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-29 20:18           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-29 21:27             ` Ralf Baechle
2007-01-29 20:10         ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-29 20:22           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-29 20:38             ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-29 21:24               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-30  1:00                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-30 14:24                 ` Carsten Otte
2007-01-30 16:41                   ` Ralf Baechle
2007-01-30 17:35                     ` Carsten Otte
2007-01-30 15:47                 ` Carsten Otte
2007-01-30 22:04                   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-31 13:51                     ` Carsten Otte
2007-01-31 13:59                     ` Carsten Otte
2007-01-31 16:31                       ` Hugh Dickins
2007-02-01 16:21                         ` Carsten Otte

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