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    mm/ksm.c: ignore STABLE_FLAG of rmap_item->address in rmap_walk_ksm() · 6f230284
    Jia He authored
    commit 1105a2fc upstream.
    
    In our armv8a server(QDF2400), I noticed lots of WARN_ON caused by
    PAGE_SIZE unaligned for rmap_item->address under memory pressure
    tests(start 20 guests and run memhog in the host).
    
      WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 4641 at virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c:1826 kvm_age_hva_handler+0xc0/0xc8
      CPU: 4 PID: 4641 Comm: memhog Tainted: G        W 4.17.0-rc3+ #8
      Call trace:
       kvm_age_hva_handler+0xc0/0xc8
       handle_hva_to_gpa+0xa8/0xe0
       kvm_age_hva+0x4c/0xe8
       kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young+0x54/0x98
       __mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young+0x6c/0xa0
       page_referenced_one+0x154/0x1d8
       rmap_walk_ksm+0x12c/0x1d0
       rmap_walk+0x94/0xa0
       page_referenced+0x194/0x1b0
       shrink_page_list+0x674/0xc28
       shrink_inactive_list+0x26c/0x5b8
       shrink_node_memcg+0x35c/0x620
       shrink_node+0x100/0x430
       do_try_to_free_pages+0xe0/0x3a8
       try_to_free_pages+0xe4/0x230
       __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x564/0xdc0
       alloc_pages_vma+0x90/0x228
       do_anonymous_page+0xc8/0x4d0
       __handle_mm_fault+0x4a0/0x508
       handle_mm_fault+0xf8/0x1b0
       do_page_fault+0x218/0x4b8
       do_translation_fault+0x90/0xa0
       do_mem_abort+0x68/0xf0
       el0_da+0x24/0x28
    
    In rmap_walk_ksm, the rmap_item->address might still have the
    STABLE_FLAG, then the start and end in handle_hva_to_gpa might not be
    PAGE_SIZE aligned.  Thus it will cause exceptions in handle_hva_to_gpa
    on arm64.
    
    This patch fixes it by ignoring (not removing) the low bits of address
    when doing rmap_walk_ksm.
    
    IMO, it should be backported to stable tree.  the storm of WARN_ONs is
    very easy for me to reproduce.  More than that, I watched a panic (not
    reproducible) as follows:
    
      page:ffff7fe003742d80 count:-4871 mapcount:-2126053375 mapping: (null) index:0x0
      flags: 0x1fffc00000000000()
      raw: 1fffc00000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffecf981470000
      raw: dead000000000100 dead000000000200 ffff8017c001c000 0000000000000000
      page dumped because: nonzero _refcount
      CPU: 29 PID: 18323 Comm: qemu-kvm Tainted: G W 4.14.15-5.hxt.aarch64 #1
      Hardware name: <snip for confidential issues>
      Call trace:
        dump_backtrace+0x0/0x22c
        show_stack+0x24/0x2c
        dump_stack+0x8c/0xb0
        bad_page+0xf4/0x154
        free_pages_check_bad+0x90/0x9c
        free_pcppages_bulk+0x464/0x518
        free_hot_cold_page+0x22c/0x300
        __put_page+0x54/0x60
        unmap_stage2_range+0x170/0x2b4
        kvm_unmap_hva_handler+0x30/0x40
        handle_hva_to_gpa+0xb0/0xec
        kvm_unmap_hva_range+0x5c/0xd0
    
    I even injected a fault on purpose in kvm_unmap_hva_range by seting
    size=size-0x200, the call trace is similar as above.  So I thought the
    panic is similarly caused by the root cause of WARN_ON.
    
    Andrea said:
    
    : It looks a straightforward safe fix, on x86 hva_to_gfn_memslot would
    : zap those bits and hide the misalignment caused by the low metadata
    : bits being erroneously left set in the address, but the arm code
    : notices when that's the last page in the memslot and the hva_end is
    : getting aligned and the size is below one page.
    :
    : I think the problem triggers in the addr += PAGE_SIZE of
    : unmap_stage2_ptes that never matches end because end is aligned but
    : addr is not.
    :
    : 	} while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
    :
    : x86 again only works on hva_start/hva_end after converting it to
    : gfn_start/end and that being in pfn units the bits are zapped before
    : they risk to cause trouble.
    
    Jia He said:
    
    : I've tested by myself in arm64 server (QDF2400,46 cpus,96G mem) Without
    : this patch, the WARN_ON is very easy for reproducing.  After this patch, I
    : have run the same benchmarch for a whole day without any WARN_ONs
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525403506-6750-1-git-send-email-hejianet@gmail.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJia He <jia.he@hxt-semitech.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarJia He <hejianet@gmail.com>
    Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
    Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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