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| author | Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> | 2018-07-14 01:58:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-07-14 20:11:09 +0200 |
| commit | bce73e4842390f7b7309c8e253e139db71288ac3 (patch) | |
| tree | ac9b8bf5f1ac4fa8d53d6cbfe731de70a2416344 /mm/rmap.c | |
| parent | Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/... (diff) | |
| download | linux-bce73e4842390f7b7309c8e253e139db71288ac3.tar.xz linux-bce73e4842390f7b7309c8e253e139db71288ac3.zip | |
mm: do not drop unused pages when userfaultd is running
KVM guests on s390 can notify the host of unused pages. This can result
in pte_unused callbacks to be true for KVM guest memory.
If a page is unused (checked with pte_unused) we might drop this page
instead of paging it. This can have side-effects on userfaultd, when
the page in question was already migrated:
The next access of that page will trigger a fault and a user fault
instead of faulting in a new and empty zero page. As QEMU does not
expect a userfault on an already migrated page this migration will fail.
The most straightforward solution is to ignore the pte_unused hint if a
userfault context is active for this VMA.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703171854.63981-1-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.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 'mm/rmap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/rmap.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 6db729dc4c50..eb477809a5c0 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ #include <linux/backing-dev.h> #include <linux/page_idle.h> #include <linux/memremap.h> +#include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h> #include <asm/tlbflush.h> @@ -1481,11 +1482,16 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma, set_pte_at(mm, address, pvmw.pte, pteval); } - } else if (pte_unused(pteval)) { + } else if (pte_unused(pteval) && !userfaultfd_armed(vma)) { /* * The guest indicated that the page content is of no * interest anymore. Simply discard the pte, vmscan * will take care of the rest. + * A future reference will then fault in a new zero + * page. When userfaultfd is active, we must not drop + * this page though, as its main user (postcopy + * migration) will not expect userfaults on already + * copied pages. */ dec_mm_counter(mm, mm_counter(page)); /* We have to invalidate as we cleared the pte */ |