On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 04:43:18PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Replace superfluous VM_BUG_ON() with comment about correct usage.
>
> Technically reverts commit 1d148e218a0d0566b1c06f2f45f1436d53b049b2
> ("mm: add VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() to page_mapcount()"), but context have changed.
>
> Function isolate_migratepages_block() runs some checks out of lru_lock
> when choose pages for migration. After checking PageLRU() it checks extra
> page references by comparing page_count() and page_mapcount(). Between
> these two checks page could be removed from lru, freed and taken by slab.
>
> As a result this race triggers VM_BUG_ON(PageSlab()) in page_mapcount().
> Race window is tiny. For certain workload this happens around once a year.
>
>
> page:ffffea0105ca9380 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff88ff7712c180 index:0x0
> compound_mapcount: 0
> flags: 0x500000000008100(slab|head)
> raw: 0500000000008100 dead000000000100 dead000000000200 ffff88ff7712c180
> raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080200020 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
> page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageSlab(page))
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at ./include/linux/mm.h:628!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> CPU: 77 PID: 504 Comm: kcompactd1 Tainted: G W 4.19.109-27 #1
> Hardware name: Yandex T175-N41-Y3N/MY81-EX0-Y3N, BIOS R05 06/20/2019
> RIP: 0010:isolate_migratepages_block+0x986/0x9b0
>
>
> Code in isolate_migratepages_block() was added in commit 119d6d59dcc0
> ("mm, compaction: avoid isolating pinned pages") before adding VM_BUG_ON
> into page_mapcount().
>
> This race has been predicted in 2015 by Vlastimil Babka (see link below).
>
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebni...@yandex-team.ru>
> Fixes: 1d148e218a0d ("mm: add VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() to page_mapcount()")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/557710e1.6060...@suse.cz/
> Link:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/158937872515.474360.5066096871639561424.stgit@buzz/T/
> (v1)
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
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Kirill A. Shutemov
