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hugetlbfs: add swap entry check in follow_hugetlb_page() 

With applying the previous patch "hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in
initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB)" to reenable hugepage coredump, if a memory
error happens on a hugepage and the affected processes try to access the
error hugepage, we hit VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) <= 0) in
get_page().

The reason for this bug is that coredump-related code doesn't recognise
"hugepage hwpoison entry" with which a pmd entry is replaced when a memory
error occurs on a hugepage.

In other words, physical address information is stored in different bit
layout between hugepage hwpoison entry and pmd entry, so
follow_hugetlb_page() which is called in get_dump_page() returns a wrong
page from a given address.

The expected behavior is like this:

  absent   is_swap_pte   FOLL_DUMP   Expected behavior
  -------------------------------------------------------------------
   true     false         false       hugetlb_fault
   false    true          false       hugetlb_fault
   false    false         false       return page
   true     false         true        skip page (to avoid allocation)
   false    true          true        hugetlb_fault
   false    false         true        return page

With this patch, we can call hugetlb_fault() and take proper actions (we
wait for migration entries, fail with VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE for
hwpoisoned entries,) and as the result we can dump all hugepages except
for hwpoisoned ones.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[2.6.34+?]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Naoya Horiguchi 2013-04-17 15:58:30 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 23d9e48213
commit 9cc3a5bd40
1 changed files with 11 additions and 1 deletions
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mm/hugetlb.c
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@ -2961,7 +2961,17 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
break;
}
if (absent ||
/*
* We need call hugetlb_fault for both hugepages under migration
* (in which case hugetlb_fault waits for the migration,) and
* hwpoisoned hugepages (in which case we need to prevent the
* caller from accessing to them.) In order to do this, we use
* here is_swap_pte instead of is_hugetlb_entry_migration and
* is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned. This is because it simply covers
* both cases, and because we can't follow correct pages
* directly from any kind of swap entries.
*/
if (absent || is_swap_pte(huge_ptep_get(pte)) ||
((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_write(huge_ptep_get(pte)))) {
int ret;