On 24.09.20 07:16, Chris Goldsworthy wrote:
> CMA allocations will fail if 'pinned' pages are in a CMA area, since we
> cannot migrate pinned pages. The _refcount of a struct page being greater
> than _mapcount for that page can cause pinning for anonymous pages. This
> is because try_to_unmap(), which (1) is called in the CMA allocation path,
> and (2) decrements both _refcount and _mapcount for a page, will stop
> unmapping a page from VMAs once the _mapcount for a page reaches 0. This
> implies that after try_to_unmap() has finished successfully for a page
> where _recount > _mapcount, that _refcount will be greater than 0. Later
> in the CMA allocation path in migrate_page_move_mapping(), we will have one
> more reference count than intended for anonymous pages, meaning the
> allocation will fail for that page.
>
> If a process ends up causing _refcount > _mapcount for a page (by either
> incrementing _recount or decrementing _mapcount), such that the process is
> context switched out after modifying one refcount but before modifying the
> other, the page will be temporarily pinned.
>
> One example of where _refcount can be greater than _mapcount is inside of
> zap_pte_range(), which is called for all the entries of a PMD when a
> process is exiting, to unmap the process's memory. Inside of
> zap_pte_range(), after unammping a page with page_remove_rmap(), we have
> that _recount > _mapcount. _refcount can only be decremented after a TLB
> flush is performed for the page - this doesn't occur until enough pages
> have been batched together for flushing. The flush can either occur inside
> of zap_pte_range() (during the same invocation or a later one), or if there
> aren't enough pages collected by the time we unmap all of the pages in a
> process, the flush will occur in tlb_finish_mmu() in exit_mmap(). After
> the flush has occurred, tlb_batch_pages_flush() will decrement the
> references on the flushed pages.
>
> Another such example like the above is inside of copy_one_pte(), which is
> called during a fork. For PTEs for which pte_present(pte) == true,
> copy_one_pte() will increment the _refcount field followed by the
> _mapcount field of a page.
>
> So, inside of cma_alloc(), add the option of letting users pass in
> __GFP_NOFAIL to indicate that we should retry CMA allocations indefinitely,
> in the event that alloc_contig_range() returns -EBUSY after having scanned
> a whole CMA-region bitmap.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Goldsworthy <cgold...@codeaurora.org>
> Co-developed-by: Vinayak Menon <vinme...@codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinme...@codeaurora.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c | 2 +-
> drivers/dma-buf/heaps/cma_heap.c | 2 +-
> drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c | 2 +-
> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/cma.h | 2 +-
> kernel/dma/contiguous.c | 4 ++--
> mm/Kconfig | 11 ++++++++++
> mm/cma.c | 35
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> mm/cma_debug.c | 2 +-
> mm/hugetlb.c | 4 ++--
> 10 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c
> b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c
> index 073617c..21c3f6a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c
> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ struct page *kvm_alloc_hpt_cma(unsigned long nr_pages)
> VM_BUG_ON(order_base_2(nr_pages) < KVM_CMA_CHUNK_ORDER - PAGE_SHIFT);
>
> return cma_alloc(kvm_cma, nr_pages, order_base_2(HPT_ALIGN_PAGES),
> - false);
> + 0);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_alloc_hpt_cma);
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/cma_heap.c
> b/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/cma_heap.c
> index 626cf7f..7657359 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/cma_heap.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/cma_heap.c
> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static int cma_heap_allocate(struct dma_heap *heap,
> helper_buffer->heap = heap;
> helper_buffer->size = len;
>
> - cma_pages = cma_alloc(cma_heap->cma, nr_pages, align, false);
> + cma_pages = cma_alloc(cma_heap->cma, nr_pages, align, 0);
> if (!cma_pages)
> goto free_buf;
>
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c b/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c
> index 9e06628..11c4e3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c
> +++ b/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static void vmcp_response_alloc(struct vmcp_session
> *session)
> * anymore the system won't work anyway.
> */
> if (order > 2)
> - page = cma_alloc(vmcp_cma, nr_pages, 0, false);
> + page = cma_alloc(vmcp_cma, nr_pages, 0, 0);
> if (page) {
> session->response = (char *)page_to_phys(page);
> session->cma_alloc = 1;
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c
> b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c
> index bf65e67..128d3a5 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static int ion_cma_allocate(struct ion_heap *heap, struct
> ion_buffer *buffer,
> if (align > CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT)
> align = CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT;
>
> - pages = cma_alloc(cma_heap->cma, nr_pages, align, false);
> + pages = cma_alloc(cma_heap->cma, nr_pages, align, 0);
> if (!pages)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/cma.h b/include/linux/cma.h
> index 6ff79fe..2bd8544 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cma.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cma.h
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ extern int cma_init_reserved_mem(phys_addr_t base,
> phys_addr_t size,
> const char *name,
> struct cma **res_cma);
> extern struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, size_t count, unsigned int
> align,
> - bool no_warn);
> + gfp_t gfp_mask);
> extern bool cma_release(struct cma *cma, const struct page *pages, unsigned
> int count);
>
> extern int cma_for_each_area(int (*it)(struct cma *cma, void *data), void
> *data);
> diff --git a/kernel/dma/contiguous.c b/kernel/dma/contiguous.c
> index cff7e60..55c62b2 100644
> --- a/kernel/dma/contiguous.c
> +++ b/kernel/dma/contiguous.c
> @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ struct page *dma_alloc_from_contiguous(struct device
> *dev, size_t count,
> if (align > CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT)
> align = CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT;
>
> - return cma_alloc(dev_get_cma_area(dev), count, align, no_warn);
> + return cma_alloc(dev_get_cma_area(dev), count, align, no_warn ?
> __GFP_NOWARN : 0);
> }
>
> /**
> @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static struct page *cma_alloc_aligned(struct cma *cma,
> size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
> {
> unsigned int align = min(get_order(size), CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT);
>
> - return cma_alloc(cma, size >> PAGE_SHIFT, align, gfp & __GFP_NOWARN);
> + return cma_alloc(cma, size >> PAGE_SHIFT, align, gfp);
> }
>
> /**
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index 6c97488..83a5135 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -524,6 +524,17 @@ config CMA_AREAS
>
> If unsure, leave the default value "7".
>
> +config CMA_RETRY_SLEEP_DURATION
> + int "Sleep duration between retries"
> + depends on CMA
> + default 100
> + help
> + Time to sleep for in milliseconds between the indefinite
> + retries of a CMA allocation that are induced by passing
> + __GFP_NOFAIL to cma_alloc().
> +
> + If unsure, leave the value as "100".
> +
> config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
> bool "Track memory changes"
> depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS
> diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> index 7f415d7..4fbad2b 100644
> --- a/mm/cma.c
> +++ b/mm/cma.c
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
> #include <linux/highmem.h>
> #include <linux/io.h>
> #include <linux/kmemleak.h>
> +#include <linux/delay.h>
> #include <trace/events/cma.h>
>
> #include "cma.h"
> @@ -403,13 +404,15 @@ static inline void cma_debug_show_areas(struct cma
> *cma) { }
> * @cma: Contiguous memory region for which the allocation is performed.
> * @count: Requested number of pages.
> * @align: Requested alignment of pages (in PAGE_SIZE order).
> - * @no_warn: Avoid printing message about failed allocation
> + * @gfp_mask: If __GFP_NOWARN is passed, suppress messages about failed
> + * allocations. If __GFP_NOFAIL is passed, try doing the CMA
> + * allocation indefinitely until the allocation succeeds.
> *
> * This function allocates part of contiguous memory on specific
> * contiguous memory area.
> */
> struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, size_t count, unsigned int align,
> - bool no_warn)
> + gfp_t gfp_mask)
> {
> unsigned long mask, offset;
> unsigned long pfn = -1;
> @@ -442,8 +445,28 @@ struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, size_t count,
> unsigned int align,
> bitmap_maxno, start, bitmap_count, mask,
> offset);
> if (bitmap_no >= bitmap_maxno) {
> - mutex_unlock(&cma->lock);
> - break;
> + if (ret == -EBUSY && gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL) {
> + mutex_unlock(&cma->lock);
> +
> + /*
> + * Page may be momentarily pinned by some other
> + * process which has been scheduled out, e.g.
> + * in exit path, during unmap call, or process
> + * fork and so cannot be freed there. Sleep
> + * for 100ms and retry the allocation.
> + */
> + start = 0;
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + msleep(CONFIG_CMA_RETRY_SLEEP_DURATION);
> + continue;
> + } else {
> + /*
> + * ret == -ENOMEM - all bits in cma->bitmap are
> + * set, so we break accordingly.
> + */
> + mutex_unlock(&cma->lock);
> + break;
> + }
> }
> bitmap_set(cma->bitmap, bitmap_no, bitmap_count);
> /*
> @@ -456,7 +479,7 @@ struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, size_t count,
> unsigned int align,
> pfn = cma->base_pfn + (bitmap_no << cma->order_per_bit);
> mutex_lock(&cma_mutex);
> ret = alloc_contig_range(pfn, pfn + count, MIGRATE_CMA,
> - GFP_KERNEL | (no_warn ? __GFP_NOWARN : 0));
> + GFP_KERNEL | (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN));
Right, we definetly don't want to pass the flag further down.
Alternative would be cma_alloc_nofail(). That helps avoid people passing
stuff like GFP_USER and wondering why it doesn't have an effect.
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
