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authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>2014-11-13 15:19:11 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-11-13 16:17:05 -0800
commitad53f92eb416d81e469fa8ea57153e59455e7175 (patch)
tree1c764d6c13c13477793c8b3d735f8429171139fc /include
parent58420016303769f74c58248a59ca0f435041b352 (diff)
mm/page_alloc: fix incorrect isolation behavior by rechecking migratetype
Before describing bugs itself, I first explain definition of freepage. 1. pages on buddy list are counted as freepage. 2. pages on isolate migratetype buddy list are *not* counted as freepage. 3. pages on cma buddy list are counted as CMA freepage, too. Now, I describe problems and related patch. Patch 1: There is race conditions on getting pageblock migratetype that it results in misplacement of freepages on buddy list, incorrect freepage count and un-availability of freepage. Patch 2: Freepages on pcp list could have stale cached information to determine migratetype of buddy list to go. This causes misplacement of freepages on buddy list and incorrect freepage count. Patch 4: Merging between freepages on different migratetype of pageblocks will cause freepages accouting problem. This patch fixes it. Without patchset [3], above problem doesn't happens on my CMA allocation test, because CMA reserved pages aren't used at all. So there is no chance for above race. With patchset [3], I did simple CMA allocation test and get below result: - Virtual machine, 4 cpus, 1024 MB memory, 256 MB CMA reservation - run kernel build (make -j16) on background - 30 times CMA allocation(8MB * 30 = 240MB) attempts in 5 sec interval - Result: more than 5000 freepage count are missed With patchset [3] and this patchset, I found that no freepage count are missed so that I conclude that problems are solved. On my simple memory offlining test, these problems also occur on that environment, too. This patch (of 4): There are two paths to reach core free function of buddy allocator, __free_one_page(), one is free_one_page()->__free_one_page() and the other is free_hot_cold_page()->free_pcppages_bulk()->__free_one_page(). Each paths has race condition causing serious problems. At first, this patch is focused on first type of freepath. And then, following patch will solve the problem in second type of freepath. In the first type of freepath, we got migratetype of freeing page without holding the zone lock, so it could be racy. There are two cases of this race. 1. pages are added to isolate buddy list after restoring orignal migratetype CPU1 CPU2 get migratetype => return MIGRATE_ISOLATE call free_one_page() with MIGRATE_ISOLATE grab the zone lock unisolate pageblock release the zone lock grab the zone lock call __free_one_page() with MIGRATE_ISOLATE freepage go into isolate buddy list, although pageblock is already unisolated This may cause two problems. One is that we can't use this page anymore until next isolation attempt of this pageblock, because freepage is on isolate buddy list. The other is that freepage accouting could be wrong due to merging between different buddy list. Freepages on isolate buddy list aren't counted as freepage, but ones on normal buddy list are counted as freepage. If merge happens, buddy freepage on normal buddy list is inevitably moved to isolate buddy list without any consideration of freepage accouting so it could be incorrect. 2. pages are added to normal buddy list while pageblock is isolated. It is similar with above case. This also may cause two problems. One is that we can't keep these freepages from being allocated. Although this pageblock is isolated, freepage would be added to normal buddy list so that it could be allocated without any restriction. And the other problem is same as case 1, that it, incorrect freepage accouting. This race condition would be prevented by checking migratetype again with holding the zone lock. Because it is somewhat heavy operation and it isn't needed in common case, we want to avoid rechecking as much as possible. So this patch introduce new variable, nr_isolate_pageblock in struct zone to check if there is isolated pageblock. With this, we can avoid to re-check migratetype in common case and do it only if there is isolated pageblock or migratetype is MIGRATE_ISOLATE. This solve above mentioned problems. Changes from v3: Add one more check in free_one_page() that checks whether migratetype is MIGRATE_ISOLATE or not. Without this, abovementioned case 1 could happens. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Cc: Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@samsung.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Cc: Gioh Kim <gioh.kim@lge.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mmzone.h9
-rw-r--r--include/linux/page-isolation.h8
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 48bf12ef6620..ffe66e381c04 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -431,6 +431,15 @@ struct zone {
*/
int nr_migrate_reserve_block;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION
+ /*
+ * Number of isolated pageblock. It is used to solve incorrect
+ * freepage counting problem due to racy retrieving migratetype
+ * of pageblock. Protected by zone->lock.
+ */
+ unsigned long nr_isolate_pageblock;
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
/* see spanned/present_pages for more description */
seqlock_t span_seqlock;
diff --git a/include/linux/page-isolation.h b/include/linux/page-isolation.h
index 3fff8e774067..2dc1e1697b45 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-isolation.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-isolation.h
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
#define __LINUX_PAGEISOLATION_H
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION
+static inline bool has_isolate_pageblock(struct zone *zone)
+{
+ return zone->nr_isolate_pageblock;
+}
static inline bool is_migrate_isolate_page(struct page *page)
{
return get_pageblock_migratetype(page) == MIGRATE_ISOLATE;
@@ -11,6 +15,10 @@ static inline bool is_migrate_isolate(int migratetype)
return migratetype == MIGRATE_ISOLATE;
}
#else
+static inline bool has_isolate_pageblock(struct zone *zone)
+{
+ return false;
+}
static inline bool is_migrate_isolate_page(struct page *page)
{
return false;