On 08/28/2013 12:41 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 06:47:15PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> Subject: sched, numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults
>> From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
>> Date: Tue Jul 30 10:40:20 CEST 2013
>>
>> A very simple/straight forward shared fault task grouping
>> implementation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
>
> So Rik and me found a possible issue with this -- although in the end it
> turned out to be a userspace 'feature' instead.
>
> It might be possible for a COW page to be 'shared' and thus get a
> last_cpupid set from another process. When we break cow and reuse the
> now private and writable page might still have this last_cpupid and thus
> cause a shared fault and form grouping.
>
> Something like the below resets the last_cpupid field on reuse much like
> fresh COW copies will have.
>
> There might be something that avoids the above scenario but I'm too
> tired to come up with anything.
I believe this is a real bug.
It can be avoided by either -1ing out the cpupid like you do, or
using the current process's cpupid, when we re-use an old page
in do_wp_page.
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -2730,6 +2730,9 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *
> get_page(dirty_page);
>
> reuse:
> + if (old_page)
> + page_cpupid_xchg_last(old_page, (1 <<
> LAST_CPUPID_SHIFT) - 1);
> +
> flush_cache_page(vma, address, pte_pfn(orig_pte));
> entry = pte_mkyoung(orig_pte);
> entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
>
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