mm: thp: fix BUG on mm->nr_ptes
authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:59:20 +0000 (14:59 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:31:26 +0000 (12:31 -0700)
commit6226c22502ddd95f67a1c3dc6fad2862503fbb9c
treec3f306739d8848057f4296d967fcab6679027d90
parent4050cecbafc6d1d89a5407f6df1dc2f08432eca4
mm: thp: fix BUG on mm->nr_ptes

commit 1c641e84719429bbfe62a95ed3545ee7fe24408f upstream.

Dave Jones reports a few Fedora users hitting the BUG_ON(mm->nr_ptes...)
in exit_mmap() recently.

Quoting Hugh's discovery and explanation of the SMP race condition:

  "mm->nr_ptes had unusual locking: down_read mmap_sem plus
   page_table_lock when incrementing, down_write mmap_sem (or mm_users
   0) when decrementing; whereas THP is careful to increment and
   decrement it under page_table_lock.

   Now most of those paths in THP also hold mmap_sem for read or write
   (with appropriate checks on mm_users), but two do not: when
   split_huge_page() is called by hwpoison_user_mappings(), and when
   called by add_to_swap().

   It's conceivable that the latter case is responsible for the
   exit_mmap() BUG_ON mm->nr_ptes that has been reported on Fedora."

The simplest way to fix it without having to alter the locking is to make
split_huge_page() a noop in nr_ptes terms, so by counting the preallocated
pagetables that exists for every mapped hugepage.  It was an arbitrary
choice not to count them and either way is not wrong or right, because
they are not used but they're still allocated.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/huge_memory.c