Hi:
On 2021/1/28 8:09, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 04:33:49 -0500 Miaohe Lin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> For PMD-mapped page (usually THP), pvmw->pte is NULL. For PTE-mapped THP,
>> pvmw->pte is mapped. But for HugeTLB pages, pvmw->pte is not mapped and set
>> to the relevant page table entry. So in page_vma_mapped_walk_done(), we may
>> do pte_unmap() for HugeTLB pte which is not mapped. Fix this by checking
>> pvmw->page against PageHuge before trying to do pte_unmap().
>>
>
> What are the runtime consequences of this? Is there a workload which
> is known to trigger it?
>
Not yet. This should not be backported. My bad. Sorry about it.
> IOW, how do we justify a -stable backport of this fix?
> >>
>> --- a/include/linux/rmap.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/rmap.h
>> @@ -213,7 +213,8 @@ struct page_vma_mapped_walk {
>>
>> static inline void page_vma_mapped_walk_done(struct page_vma_mapped_walk
>> *pvmw)
>> {
>> - if (pvmw->pte)
>> + /* HugeTLB pte is set to the relevant page table entry without
>> pte_mapped. */
>> + if (pvmw->pte && !PageHuge(pvmw->page))
>> pte_unmap(pvmw->pte);
>> if (pvmw->ptl)
>> spin_unlock(pvmw->ptl);
>> --
>> 2.19.1
> .
>
