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author | David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> | 2024-10-11 12:24:45 +0200 |
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committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-10-17 09:28:10 +0200 |
commit | 2b0f922323ccfa76219bcaacd35cd50aeaa13592 (patch) | |
tree | af98a543d2cebf7128d96cfec46733249018a2bb /MAINTAINERS | |
parent | mm: huge_memory: add vma_thp_disabled() and thp_disabled_by_hw() (diff) | |
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mm: don't install PMD mappings when THPs are disabled by the hw/process/vma
We (or rather, readahead logic :) ) might be allocating a THP in the
pagecache and then try mapping it into a process that explicitly disabled
THP: we might end up installing PMD mappings.
This is a problem for s390x KVM, which explicitly remaps all PMD-mapped
THPs to be PTE-mapped in s390_enable_sie()->thp_split_mm(), before
starting the VM.
For example, starting a VM backed on a file system with large folios
supported makes the VM crash when the VM tries accessing such a mapping
using KVM.
Is it also a problem when the HW disabled THP using
TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_UNSUPPORTED? At least on x86 this would be the case
without X86_FEATURE_PSE.
In the future, we might be able to do better on s390x and only disallow
PMD mappings -- what s390x and likely TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_UNSUPPORTED
really wants. For now, fix it by essentially performing the same check as
would be done in __thp_vma_allowable_orders() or in shmem code, where this
works as expected, and disallow PMD mappings, making us fallback to PTE
mappings.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241011102445.934409-3-david@redhat.com
Fixes: 793917d997df ("mm/readahead: Add large folio readahead")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Leo Fu <bfu@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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