From: Barry Song v-songbaohua@oppo.com
next inclusion category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I9OCYO CVE: NA
Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?i...
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Within try_to_unmap_one(), page_vma_mapped_walk() races with other PTE modifications preceded by pte clear. While iterating over PTEs of a large folio, it only starts acquiring PTL from the first valid (present) PTE. PTE modifications can temporarily set PTEs to pte_none. Consequently, the initial PTEs of a large folio might be skipped in try_to_unmap_one().
For example, for an anon folio, if we skip PTE0, we may have PTE0 which is still present, while PTE1 ~ PTE(nr_pages - 1) are swap entries after try_to_unmap_one().
So folio will be still mapped, the folio fails to be reclaimed and is put back to LRU in this round.
This also breaks up PTEs optimization such as CONT-PTE on this large folio and may lead to accident folio_split() afterwards. And since a part of PTEs are now swap entries, accessing those parts will introduce overhead - do_swap_page. Although the kernel can withstand all of the above issues, the situation still seems quite awkward and warrants making it more ideal.
The same race also occurs with small folios, but they have only one PTE, thus, it won't be possible for them to be partially unmapped.
This patch holds PTL from PTE0, allowing us to avoid reading PTE values that are in the process of being transformed. With stable PTE values, we can ensure that this large folio is either completely reclaimed or that all PTEs remain untouched in this round.
A corner case is that if we hold PTL from PTE0 and most initial PTEs have been really unmapped before that, we may increase the duration of holding PTL. Thus we only apply this optimization to folios which are still entirely mapped (not in deferred_split list).
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rewrap comment, per Matthew] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240306095219.71086-1-21cnbao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Barry Song v-songbaohua@oppo.com Acked-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Cc: Chris Li chrisl@kernel.org Cc: Chuanhua Han hanchuanhua@oppo.com Cc: Gao Xiang xiang@kernel.org Cc: Huang, Ying ying.huang@intel.com Cc: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Cc: Kefeng Wang wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Ryan Roberts ryan.roberts@arm.com Cc: Yang Shi shy828301@gmail.com Cc: Yu Zhao yuzhao@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin liushixin2@huawei.com --- mm/vmscan.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index e1aa8bd796e9..206be0d30d57 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1954,6 +1954,20 @@ static unsigned int shrink_folio_list(struct list_head *folio_list,
if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) flags |= TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD; + /* + * Without TTU_SYNC, try_to_unmap will only begin to + * hold PTL from the first present PTE within a large + * folio. Some initial PTEs might be skipped due to + * races with parallel PTE writes in which PTEs can be + * cleared temporarily before being written new present + * values. This will lead to a large folio is still + * mapped while some subpages have been partially + * unmapped after try_to_unmap; TTU_SYNC helps + * try_to_unmap acquire PTL from the first PTE, + * eliminating the influence of temporary PTE values. + */ + if (folio_test_large(folio) && list_empty(&folio->_deferred_list)) + flags |= TTU_SYNC;
try_to_unmap(folio, flags); if (folio_mapped(folio)) {