1. 20 10月, 2012 1 次提交
  2. 17 10月, 2012 1 次提交
    • D
      mm, mempolicy: fix printing stack contents in numa_maps · 32f8516a
      David Rientjes 提交于
      When reading /proc/pid/numa_maps, it's possible to return the contents of
      the stack where the mempolicy string should be printed if the policy gets
      freed from beneath us.
      
      This happens because mpol_to_str() may return an error the
      stack-allocated buffer is then printed without ever being stored.
      
      There are two possible error conditions in mpol_to_str():
      
       - if the buffer allocated is insufficient for the string to be stored,
         and
      
       - if the mempolicy has an invalid mode.
      
      The first error condition is not triggered in any of the callers to
      mpol_to_str(): at least 50 bytes is always allocated on the stack and this
      is sufficient for the string to be written.  A future patch should convert
      this into BUILD_BUG_ON() since we know the maximum strlen possible, but
      that's not -rc material.
      
      The second error condition is possible if a race occurs in dropping a
      reference to a task's mempolicy causing it to be freed during the read().
      The slab poison value is then used for the mode and mpol_to_str() returns
      -EINVAL.
      
      This race is only possible because get_vma_policy() believes that
      mm->mmap_sem protects task->mempolicy, which isn't true.  The exit path
      does not hold mm->mmap_sem when dropping the reference or setting
      task->mempolicy to NULL: it uses task_lock(task) instead.
      
      Thus, it's required for the caller of a task mempolicy to hold
      task_lock(task) while grabbing the mempolicy and reading it.  Callers with
      a vma policy store their mempolicy earlier and can simply increment the
      reference count so it's guaranteed not to be freed.
      Reported-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      32f8516a
  3. 09 10月, 2012 1 次提交
    • K
      mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and mm->reserved_vm counter · 314e51b9
      Konstantin Khlebnikov 提交于
      A long time ago, in v2.4, VM_RESERVED kept swapout process off VMA,
      currently it lost original meaning but still has some effects:
      
       | effect                 | alternative flags
      -+------------------------+---------------------------------------------
      1| account as reserved_vm | VM_IO
      2| skip in core dump      | VM_IO, VM_DONTDUMP
      3| do not merge or expand | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP
      4| do not mlock           | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP
      
      This patch removes reserved_vm counter from mm_struct.  Seems like nobody
      cares about it, it does not exported into userspace directly, it only
      reduces total_vm showed in proc.
      
      Thus VM_RESERVED can be replaced with VM_IO or pair VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP.
      
      remap_pfn_range() and io_remap_pfn_range() set VM_IO|VM_DONTEXPAND|VM_DONTDUMP.
      remap_vmalloc_range() set VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c fixup]
      Signed-off-by: NKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
      Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
      Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
      Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
      Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
      Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
      Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      314e51b9
  4. 01 6月, 2012 4 次提交
  5. 30 5月, 2012 1 次提交
  6. 11 5月, 2012 1 次提交
  7. 26 4月, 2012 1 次提交
  8. 30 3月, 2012 1 次提交
  9. 29 3月, 2012 1 次提交
  10. 22 3月, 2012 5 次提交
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      procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc/<pid>/maps · b7643757
      Siddhesh Poyarekar 提交于
      Stack for a new thread is mapped by userspace code and passed via
      sys_clone.  This memory is currently seen as anonymous in
      /proc/<pid>/maps, which makes it difficult to ascertain which mappings
      are being used for thread stacks.  This patch uses the individual task
      stack pointers to determine which vmas are actually thread stacks.
      
      For a multithreaded program like the following:
      
      	#include <pthread.h>
      
      	void *thread_main(void *foo)
      	{
      		while(1);
      	}
      
      	int main()
      	{
      		pthread_t t;
      		pthread_create(&t, NULL, thread_main, NULL);
      		pthread_join(t, NULL);
      	}
      
      proc/PID/maps looks like the following:
      
          00400000-00401000 r-xp 00000000 fd:0a 3671804                            /home/siddhesh/a.out
          00600000-00601000 rw-p 00000000 fd:0a 3671804                            /home/siddhesh/a.out
          019ef000-01a10000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
          7f8a44491000-7f8a44492000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a44c92000-7f8a44e3d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097482                    /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
          7f8a44e3d000-7f8a4503d000 ---p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482                    /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
          7f8a4503d000-7f8a45041000 r--p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482                    /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45041000-7f8a45043000 rw-p 001af000 fd:00 2097482                    /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45043000-7f8a45048000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a45048000-7f8a4505f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2099938                    /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so
          7f8a4505f000-7f8a4525e000 ---p 00017000 fd:00 2099938                    /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so
          7f8a4525e000-7f8a4525f000 r--p 00016000 fd:00 2099938                    /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so
          7f8a4525f000-7f8a45260000 rw-p 00017000 fd:00 2099938                    /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45260000-7f8a45264000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a45264000-7f8a45286000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097348                    /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45457000-7f8a4545a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a45484000-7f8a45485000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a45485000-7f8a45486000 r--p 00021000 fd:00 2097348                    /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45486000-7f8a45487000 rw-p 00022000 fd:00 2097348                    /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45487000-7f8a45488000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack]
          7fff627ff000-7fff62800000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                          [vdso]
          ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  [vsyscall]
      
      Here, one could guess that 7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 is a stack since
      the earlier vma that has no permissions (7f8a44e3d000-7f8a4503d000) but
      that is not always a reliable way to find out which vma is a thread
      stack.  Also, /proc/PID/maps and /proc/PID/task/TID/maps has the same
      content.
      
      With this patch in place, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps are treated as 'maps
      as the task would see it' and hence, only the vma that that task uses as
      stack is marked as [stack].  All other 'stack' vmas are marked as
      anonymous memory.  /proc/PID/maps acts as a thread group level view,
      where all thread stack vmas are marked as [stack:TID] where TID is the
      process ID of the task that uses that vma as stack, while the process
      stack is marked as [stack].
      
      So /proc/PID/maps will look like this:
      
          00400000-00401000 r-xp 00000000 fd:0a 3671804                            /home/siddhesh/a.out
          00600000-00601000 rw-p 00000000 fd:0a 3671804                            /home/siddhesh/a.out
          019ef000-01a10000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
          7f8a44491000-7f8a44492000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack:1442]
          7f8a44c92000-7f8a44e3d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097482                    /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
          7f8a44e3d000-7f8a4503d000 ---p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482                    /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
          7f8a4503d000-7f8a45041000 r--p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482                    /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45041000-7f8a45043000 rw-p 001af000 fd:00 2097482                    /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45043000-7f8a45048000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a45048000-7f8a4505f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2099938                    /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so
          7f8a4505f000-7f8a4525e000 ---p 00017000 fd:00 2099938                    /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so
          7f8a4525e000-7f8a4525f000 r--p 00016000 fd:00 2099938                    /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so
          7f8a4525f000-7f8a45260000 rw-p 00017000 fd:00 2099938                    /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45260000-7f8a45264000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a45264000-7f8a45286000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097348                    /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45457000-7f8a4545a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a45484000-7f8a45485000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a45485000-7f8a45486000 r--p 00021000 fd:00 2097348                    /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45486000-7f8a45487000 rw-p 00022000 fd:00 2097348                    /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45487000-7f8a45488000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack]
          7fff627ff000-7fff62800000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                          [vdso]
          ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  [vsyscall]
      
      Thus marking all vmas that are used as stacks by the threads in the
      thread group along with the process stack.  The task level maps will
      however like this:
      
          00400000-00401000 r-xp 00000000 fd:0a 3671804                            /home/siddhesh/a.out
          00600000-00601000 rw-p 00000000 fd:0a 3671804                            /home/siddhesh/a.out
          019ef000-01a10000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
          7f8a44491000-7f8a44492000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack]
          7f8a44c92000-7f8a44e3d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097482                    /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
          7f8a44e3d000-7f8a4503d000 ---p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482                    /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
          7f8a4503d000-7f8a45041000 r--p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482                    /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45041000-7f8a45043000 rw-p 001af000 fd:00 2097482                    /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45043000-7f8a45048000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a45048000-7f8a4505f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2099938                    /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so
          7f8a4505f000-7f8a4525e000 ---p 00017000 fd:00 2099938                    /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so
          7f8a4525e000-7f8a4525f000 r--p 00016000 fd:00 2099938                    /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so
          7f8a4525f000-7f8a45260000 rw-p 00017000 fd:00 2099938                    /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45260000-7f8a45264000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a45264000-7f8a45286000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097348                    /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45457000-7f8a4545a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a45484000-7f8a45485000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7f8a45485000-7f8a45486000 r--p 00021000 fd:00 2097348                    /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45486000-7f8a45487000 rw-p 00022000 fd:00 2097348                    /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so
          7f8a45487000-7f8a45488000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
          7fff627ff000-7fff62800000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                          [vdso]
          ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  [vsyscall]
      
      where only the vma that is being used as a stack by *that* task is
      marked as [stack].
      
      Analogous changes have been made to /proc/PID/smaps,
      /proc/PID/numa_maps, /proc/PID/task/TID/smaps and
      /proc/PID/task/TID/numa_maps. Relevant snippets from smaps and
      numa_maps:
      
          [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ pgrep a.out
          1441
          [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/smaps | grep "\[stack"
          7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack:1442]
          7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack]
          [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/task/1442/smaps | grep "\[stack"
          7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack]
          [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/task/1441/smaps | grep "\[stack"
          7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack]
          [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/numa_maps | grep "stack"
          7f8a44492000 default stack:1442 anon=2 dirty=2 N0=2
          7fff6273a000 default stack anon=3 dirty=3 N0=3
          [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/task/1442/numa_maps | grep "stack"
          7f8a44492000 default stack anon=2 dirty=2 N0=2
          [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/task/1441/numa_maps | grep "stack"
          7fff6273a000 default stack anon=3 dirty=3 N0=3
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
      Signed-off-by: NSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
      Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b7643757
    • N
      pagemap: introduce data structure for pagemap entry · 092b50ba
      Naoya Horiguchi 提交于
      Currently a local variable of pagemap entry in pagemap_pte_range() is
      named pfn and typed with u64, but it's not correct (pfn should be unsigned
      long.)
      
      This patch introduces special type for pagemap entries and replaces code
      with it.
      Signed-off-by: NNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      092b50ba
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      thp: optimize away unnecessary page table locking · 025c5b24
      Naoya Horiguchi 提交于
      Currently when we check if we can handle thp as it is or we need to split
      it into regular sized pages, we hold page table lock prior to check
      whether a given pmd is mapping thp or not.  Because of this, when it's not
      "huge pmd" we suffer from unnecessary lock/unlock overhead.  To remove it,
      this patch introduces a optimized check function and replace several
      similar logics with it.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      025c5b24
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      pagemap: avoid splitting thp when reading /proc/pid/pagemap · 5aaabe83
      Naoya Horiguchi 提交于
      Thp split is not necessary if we explicitly check whether pmds are mapping
      thps or not.  This patch introduces this check and adds code to generate
      pagemap entries for pmds mapping thps, which results in less performance
      impact of pagemap on thp.
      Signed-off-by: NNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
      Reviewed-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5aaabe83
    • A
      mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode · 1a5a9906
      Andrea Arcangeli 提交于
      In some cases it may happen that pmd_none_or_clear_bad() is called with
      the mmap_sem hold in read mode.  In those cases the huge page faults can
      allocate hugepmds under pmd_none_or_clear_bad() and that can trigger a
      false positive from pmd_bad() that will not like to see a pmd
      materializing as trans huge.
      
      It's not khugepaged causing the problem, khugepaged holds the mmap_sem
      in write mode (and all those sites must hold the mmap_sem in read mode
      to prevent pagetables to go away from under them, during code review it
      seems vm86 mode on 32bit kernels requires that too unless it's
      restricted to 1 thread per process or UP builds).  The race is only with
      the huge pagefaults that can convert a pmd_none() into a
      pmd_trans_huge().
      
      Effectively all these pmd_none_or_clear_bad() sites running with
      mmap_sem in read mode are somewhat speculative with the page faults, and
      the result is always undefined when they run simultaneously.  This is
      probably why it wasn't common to run into this.  For example if the
      madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) runs zap_page_range() shortly before the page
      fault, the hugepage will not be zapped, if the page fault runs first it
      will be zapped.
      
      Altering pmd_bad() not to error out if it finds hugepmds won't be enough
      to fix this, because zap_pmd_range would then proceed to call
      zap_pte_range (which would be incorrect if the pmd become a
      pmd_trans_huge()).
      
      The simplest way to fix this is to read the pmd in the local stack
      (regardless of what we read, no need of actual CPU barriers, only
      compiler barrier needed), and be sure it is not changing under the code
      that computes its value.  Even if the real pmd is changing under the
      value we hold on the stack, we don't care.  If we actually end up in
      zap_pte_range it means the pmd was not none already and it was not huge,
      and it can't become huge from under us (khugepaged locking explained
      above).
      
      All we need is to enforce that there is no way anymore that in a code
      path like below, pmd_trans_huge can be false, but pmd_none_or_clear_bad
      can run into a hugepmd.  The overhead of a barrier() is just a compiler
      tweak and should not be measurable (I only added it for THP builds).  I
      don't exclude different compiler versions may have prevented the race
      too by caching the value of *pmd on the stack (that hasn't been
      verified, but it wouldn't be impossible considering
      pmd_none_or_clear_bad, pmd_bad, pmd_trans_huge, pmd_none are all inlines
      and there's no external function called in between pmd_trans_huge and
      pmd_none_or_clear_bad).
      
      		if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
      			if (next-addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) {
      				VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&tlb->mm->mmap_sem));
      				split_huge_page_pmd(vma->vm_mm, pmd);
      			} else if (zap_huge_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd, addr))
      				continue;
      			/* fall through */
      		}
      		if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
      
      Because this race condition could be exercised without special
      privileges this was reported in CVE-2012-1179.
      
      The race was identified and fully explained by Ulrich who debugged it.
      I'm quoting his accurate explanation below, for reference.
      
      ====== start quote =======
            mapcount 0 page_mapcount 1
            kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:1384!
      
          At some point prior to the panic, a "bad pmd ..." message similar to the
          following is logged on the console:
      
            mm/memory.c:145: bad pmd ffff8800376e1f98(80000000314000e7).
      
          The "bad pmd ..." message is logged by pmd_clear_bad() before it clears
          the page's PMD table entry.
      
              143 void pmd_clear_bad(pmd_t *pmd)
              144 {
          ->  145         pmd_ERROR(*pmd);
              146         pmd_clear(pmd);
              147 }
      
          After the PMD table entry has been cleared, there is an inconsistency
          between the actual number of PMD table entries that are mapping the page
          and the page's map count (_mapcount field in struct page). When the page
          is subsequently reclaimed, __split_huge_page() detects this inconsistency.
      
             1381         if (mapcount != page_mapcount(page))
             1382                 printk(KERN_ERR "mapcount %d page_mapcount %d\n",
             1383                        mapcount, page_mapcount(page));
          -> 1384         BUG_ON(mapcount != page_mapcount(page));
      
          The root cause of the problem is a race of two threads in a multithreaded
          process. Thread B incurs a page fault on a virtual address that has never
          been accessed (PMD entry is zero) while Thread A is executing an madvise()
          system call on a virtual address within the same 2 MB (huge page) range.
      
                     virtual address space
                    .---------------------.
                    |                     |
                    |                     |
                  .-|---------------------|
                  | |                     |
                  | |                     |<-- B(fault)
                  | |                     |
            2 MB  | |/////////////////////|-.
            huge <  |/////////////////////|  > A(range)
            page  | |/////////////////////|-'
                  | |                     |
                  | |                     |
                  '-|---------------------|
                    |                     |
                    |                     |
                    '---------------------'
      
          - Thread A is executing an madvise(..., MADV_DONTNEED) system call
            on the virtual address range "A(range)" shown in the picture.
      
          sys_madvise
            // Acquire the semaphore in shared mode.
            down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem)
            ...
            madvise_vma
              switch (behavior)
              case MADV_DONTNEED:
                   madvise_dontneed
                     zap_page_range
                       unmap_vmas
                         unmap_page_range
                           zap_pud_range
                             zap_pmd_range
                               //
                               // Assume that this huge page has never been accessed.
                               // I.e. content of the PMD entry is zero (not mapped).
                               //
                               if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
                                   // We don't get here due to the above assumption.
                               }
                               //
                               // Assume that Thread B incurred a page fault and
                   .---------> // sneaks in here as shown below.
                   |           //
                   |           if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
                   |               {
                   |                 if (unlikely(pmd_bad(*pmd)))
                   |                     pmd_clear_bad
                   |                     {
                   |                       pmd_ERROR
                   |                         // Log "bad pmd ..." message here.
                   |                       pmd_clear
                   |                         // Clear the page's PMD entry.
                   |                         // Thread B incremented the map count
                   |                         // in page_add_new_anon_rmap(), but
                   |                         // now the page is no longer mapped
                   |                         // by a PMD entry (-> inconsistency).
                   |                     }
                   |               }
                   |
                   v
          - Thread B is handling a page fault on virtual address "B(fault)" shown
            in the picture.
      
          ...
          do_page_fault
            __do_page_fault
              // Acquire the semaphore in shared mode.
              down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)
              ...
              handle_mm_fault
                if (pmd_none(*pmd) && transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma))
                    // We get here due to the above assumption (PMD entry is zero).
                    do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
                      alloc_hugepage_vma
                        // Allocate a new transparent huge page here.
                      ...
                      __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
                        ...
                        spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock)
                        ...
                        page_add_new_anon_rmap
                          // Here we increment the page's map count (starts at -1).
                          atomic_set(&page->_mapcount, 0)
                        set_pmd_at
                          // Here we set the page's PMD entry which will be cleared
                          // when Thread A calls pmd_clear_bad().
                        ...
                        spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock)
      
          The mmap_sem does not prevent the race because both threads are acquiring
          it in shared mode (down_read).  Thread B holds the page_table_lock while
          the page's map count and PMD table entry are updated.  However, Thread A
          does not synchronize on that lock.
      
      ====== end quote =======
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
      Reported-by: NUlrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NLarry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>		[2.6.38+]
      Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1a5a9906
  11. 24 1月, 2012 1 次提交
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      proc: clear_refs: do not clear reserved pages · 85e72aa5
      Will Deacon 提交于
      /proc/pid/clear_refs is used to clear the Referenced and YOUNG bits for
      pages and corresponding page table entries of the task with PID pid, which
      includes any special mappings inserted into the page tables in order to
      provide things like vDSOs and user helper functions.
      
      On ARM this causes a problem because the vectors page is mapped as a
      global mapping and since ec706dab ("ARM: add a vma entry for the user
      accessible vector page"), a VMA is also inserted into each task for this
      page to aid unwinding through signals and syscall restarts.  Since the
      vectors page is required for handling faults, clearing the YOUNG bit (and
      subsequently writing a faulting pte) means that we lose the vectors page
      *globally* and cannot fault it back in.  This results in a system deadlock
      on the next exception.
      
      To see this problem in action, just run:
      
      	$ echo 1 > /proc/self/clear_refs
      
      on an ARM platform (as any user) and watch your system hang.  I think this
      has been the case since 2.6.37
      
      This patch avoids clearing the aforementioned bits for reserved pages,
      therefore leaving the vectors page intact on ARM.  Since reserved pages
      are not candidates for swap, this change should not have any impact on the
      usefulness of clear_refs.
      Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Reported-by: NMoussa Ba <moussaba@micron.com>
      Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Acked-by: NNicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>		[2.6.37+]
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      85e72aa5
  12. 01 11月, 2011 2 次提交
  13. 22 9月, 2011 3 次提交
  14. 27 5月, 2011 3 次提交
  15. 25 5月, 2011 2 次提交
    • S
      proc: allocate storage for numa_maps statistics once · 5b52fc89
      Stephen Wilson 提交于
      In show_numa_map() we collect statistics into a numa_maps structure.
      Since the number of NUMA nodes can be very large, this structure is not a
      candidate for stack allocation.
      
      Instead of going thru a kmalloc()+kfree() cycle each time show_numa_map()
      is invoked, perform the allocation just once when /proc/pid/numa_maps is
      opened.
      
      Performing the allocation when numa_maps is opened, and thus before a
      reference to the target tasks mm is taken, eliminates a potential
      stalemate condition in the oom-killer as originally described by Hugh
      Dickins:
      
        ... imagine what happens if the system is out of memory, and the mm
        we're looking at is selected for killing by the OOM killer: while
        we wait in __get_free_page for more memory, no memory is freed
        from the selected mm because it cannot reach exit_mmap while we hold
        that reference.
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
      Reviewed-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5b52fc89
    • S
      mm: proc: move show_numa_map() to fs/proc/task_mmu.c · f69ff943
      Stephen Wilson 提交于
      Moving show_numa_map() from mempolicy.c to task_mmu.c solves several
      issues.
      
        - Having the show() operation "miles away" from the corresponding
          seq_file iteration operations is a maintenance burden.
      
        - The need to export ad hoc info like struct proc_maps_private is
          eliminated.
      
        - The implementation of show_numa_map() can be improved in a simple
          manner by cooperating with the other seq_file operations (start,
          stop, etc) -- something that would be messy to do without this
          change.
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
      Reviewed-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f69ff943
  16. 10 5月, 2011 1 次提交
    • M
      Don't lock guardpage if the stack is growing up · a09a79f6
      Mikulas Patocka 提交于
      Linux kernel excludes guard page when performing mlock on a VMA with
      down-growing stack. However, some architectures have up-growing stack
      and locking the guard page should be excluded in this case too.
      
      This patch fixes lvm2 on PA-RISC (and possibly other architectures with
      up-growing stack). lvm2 calculates number of used pages when locking and
      when unlocking and reports an internal error if the numbers mismatch.
      
      [ Patch changed fairly extensively to also fix /proc/<pid>/maps for the
        grows-up case, and to move things around a bit to clean it all up and
        share the infrstructure with the /proc bits.
      
        Tested on ia64 that has both grow-up and grow-down segments  - Linus ]
      Signed-off-by: NMikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
      Tested-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a09a79f6
  17. 28 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  18. 24 3月, 2011 4 次提交
    • A
      procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/maps heap check · 0db0c01b
      Aaro Koskinen 提交于
      The current code fails to print the "[heap]" marking if the heap is split
      into multiple mappings.
      
      Fix the check so that the marking is displayed in all possible cases:
      	1. vma matches exactly the heap
      	2. the heap vma is merged e.g. with bss
      	3. the heap vma is splitted e.g. due to locked pages
      
      Test cases. In all cases, the process should have mapping(s) with
      [heap] marking:
      
      	(1) vma matches exactly the heap
      
      	#include <stdio.h>
      	#include <unistd.h>
      	#include <sys/types.h>
      
      	int main (void)
      	{
      		if (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) {
      			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
      			while (1)
      				sleep(1);
      		}
      		return 0;
      	}
      
      	# ./test1
      	check /proc/553/maps
      	[1] + Stopped                    ./test1
      	# cat /proc/553/maps | head -4
      	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3113640    /test1
      	00010000-00011000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3113640    /test1
      	00011000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
      	4006f000-40070000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
      
      	(2) the heap vma is merged
      
      	#include <stdio.h>
      	#include <unistd.h>
      	#include <sys/types.h>
      
      	char foo[4096] = "foo";
      	char bar[4096];
      
      	int main (void)
      	{
      		if (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) {
      			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
      			while (1)
      				sleep(1);
      		}
      		return 0;
      	}
      
      	# ./test2
      	check /proc/556/maps
      	[2] + Stopped                    ./test2
      	# cat /proc/556/maps | head -4
      	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3116312    /test2
      	00010000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3116312    /test2
      	00012000-00014000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
      	4004a000-4004b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
      
      	(3) the heap vma is splitted (this fails without the patch)
      
      	#include <stdio.h>
      	#include <unistd.h>
      	#include <sys/mman.h>
      	#include <sys/types.h>
      
      	int main (void)
      	{
      		if ((sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) && !mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) &&
      		    (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1)) {
      			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
      			while (1)
      				sleep(1);
      		}
      		return 0;
      	}
      
      	# ./test3
      	check /proc/559/maps
      	[1] + Stopped                    ./test3
      	# cat /proc/559/maps|head -4
      	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3119108    /test3
      	00010000-00011000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3119108    /test3
      	00011000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
      	00012000-00013000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
      
      It looks like the bug has been there forever, and since it only results in
      some information missing from a procfile, it does not fulfil the -stable
      "critical issue" criteria.
      Signed-off-by: NAaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
      Reviewed-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0db0c01b
    • S
      mm: arch: make get_gate_vma take an mm_struct instead of a task_struct · 31db58b3
      Stephen Wilson 提交于
      Morally, the presence of a gate vma is more an attribute of a particular mm than
      a particular task.  Moreover, dropping the dependency on task_struct will help
      make both existing and future operations on mm's more flexible and convenient.
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
      Reviewed-by: NMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      31db58b3
    • A
      report errors in /proc/*/*map* sanely · ec6fd8a4
      Al Viro 提交于
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      ec6fd8a4
    • A
      pagemap: close races with suid execve · ca6b0bf0
      Al Viro 提交于
      just use mm_for_maps()
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      ca6b0bf0
  19. 23 3月, 2011 5 次提交
  20. 14 1月, 2011 1 次提交