On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:32:08 +0000 Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>
wrote:
> Currently we are not safe from concurrent calls of isolate_huge_page(),
> which can make the victim hugepage in invalid state and results in BUG_ON().
>
> The root problem of this is that we don't have any information on struct page
> (so easily accessible) about the hugepage's activeness. Note that hugepages'
> activeness means just being linked to hstate->hugepage_activelist, which is
> not the same as normal pages' activeness represented by PageActive flag.
>
> Normal pages are isolated by isolate_lru_page() which prechecks PageLRU before
> isolation, so let's do similarly for hugetlb. PageLRU is unused on hugetlb
> now,
> so the change is mostly just inserting Set/ClearPageLRU (no conflict with
> current usage.) And the other changes are justified like below:
> - __put_compound_page() calls __page_cache_release() to do some LRU works,
> but this is obviously for thps and assumes that hugetlb has always !PageLRU.
> This assumption is not true any more, so this patch simply adds if
> (!PageHuge)
> to avoid calling __page_cache_release() for hugetlb.
> - soft_offline_huge_page() now just calls list_move(), but generally callers
> of page migration should use the common routine in isolation, so let's
> replace the list_move() with isolate_huge_page() rather than inserting
> ClearPageLRU.
>
> Set/ClearPageLRU should be called within hugetlb_lock, but hugetlb_cow() and
> hugetlb_no_page() don't do this. This is justified because in these function
> SetPageLRU is called right after the hugepage is allocated and no other thread
> tries to isolate it.
Whoa.
So if I'm understanding this correctly, hugepages never have PG_lru set
and so you are overloading that bit on hugepages to indicate that the
page is present on hstate->hugepage_activelist?
This is somewhat of a big deal and the patch doesn't make it very clear
at all. We should
- document PG_lru, for both of its identities
- consider adding a new PG_hugepage_active(?) flag which has the same
value as PG_lru (see how PG_savepinned was done).
- create suitable helper functions for the new PG_lru meaning.
Simply calling PageLRU/SetPageLRU for pages which *aren't on the LRU*
is lazy and misleading. Create a name for the new concept
(hugepage_active?) and document it and use it consistently.
> @@ -75,7 +76,8 @@ static void __put_compound_page(struct page *page)
> {
> compound_page_dtor *dtor;
>
> - __page_cache_release(page);
> + if (!PageHuge(page))
> + __page_cache_release(page);
> dtor = get_compound_page_dtor(page);
> (*dtor)(page);
And this needs a good comment - there's no way that a reader can work
out why this code is here unless he goes dumpster diving in the git
history.
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