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mm, memory_hotplug: check zone_movable in has_unmovable_pages
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 23:08:15 +0000 (15:08 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 18 Nov 2018 18:15:09 +0000 (10:15 -0800)
commit3030c3e777029f9cb9f3653c8d74c02eb7a9c7d3
treea98760bbbdfa3ed8adb6e2d63580bbcbeae1dd20
parent3a0a60b98d90588521048ee887fea4a35bfe7c1b
mm, memory_hotplug: check zone_movable in has_unmovable_pages

Page state checks are racy.  Under a heavy memory workload (e.g.  stress
-m 200 -t 2h) it is quite easy to hit a race window when the page is
allocated but its state is not fully populated yet.  A debugging patch to
dump the struct page state shows

  has_unmovable_pages: pfn:0x10dfec00, found:0x1, count:0x0
  page:ffffea0437fb0000 count:1 mapcount:1 mapping:ffff880e05239841 index:0x7f26e5000 compound_mapcount: 1
  flags: 0x5fffffc0090034(uptodate|lru|active|head|swapbacked)

Note that the state has been checked for both PageLRU and PageSwapBacked
already.  Closing this race completely would require some sort of retry
logic.  This can be tricky and error prone (think of potential endless
or long taking loops).

Workaround this problem for movable zones at least.  Such a zone should
only contain movable pages.  Commit 852ae9513e49 ("mm, memory_hotplug:
make has_unmovable_pages more robust") has told us that this is not
strictly true though.  Bootmem pages should be marked reserved though so
we can move the original check after the PageReserved check.  Pages from
other zones are still prone to races but we even do not pretend that
memory hotremove works for those so pre-mature failure doesn't hurt that
much.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181106095524.14629-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Fixes: 852ae9513e49 ("mm, memory_hotplug: make has_unmovable_pages more robust")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c