linux/mm
Mel Gorman 42288fe366 mm: mempolicy: Convert shared_policy mutex to spinlock
Sasha was fuzzing with trinity and reported the following problem:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:269
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 6361, name: trinity-main
  2 locks held by trinity-main/6361:
   #0:  (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff810aa314>] __do_page_fault+0x1e4/0x4f0
   #1:  (&(&mm->page_table_lock)->rlock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff8122f017>] handle_pte_fault+0x3f7/0x6a0
  Pid: 6361, comm: trinity-main Tainted: G        W
  3.7.0-rc2-next-20121024-sasha-00001-gd95ef01-dirty #74
  Call Trace:
    __might_sleep+0x1c3/0x1e0
    mutex_lock_nested+0x29/0x50
    mpol_shared_policy_lookup+0x2e/0x90
    shmem_get_policy+0x2e/0x30
    get_vma_policy+0x5a/0xa0
    mpol_misplaced+0x41/0x1d0
    handle_pte_fault+0x465/0x6a0

This was triggered by a different version of automatic NUMA balancing
but in theory the current version is vunerable to the same problem.

do_numa_page
  -> numa_migrate_prep
    -> mpol_misplaced
      -> get_vma_policy
        -> shmem_get_policy

It's very unlikely this will happen as shared pages are not marked
pte_numa -- see the page_mapcount() check in change_pte_range() -- but
it is possible.

To address this, this patch restores sp->lock as originally implemented
by Kosaki Motohiro.  In the path where get_vma_policy() is called, it
should not be calling sp_alloc() so it is not necessary to treat the PTL
specially.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-02 17:32:13 -08:00
..
backing-dev.c Revert "bdi: add a user-tunable cpu_list for the bdi flusher threads" 2012-12-17 11:29:09 -08:00
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c
bounce.c
cleancache.c
compaction.c compaction: fix build error in CMA && !COMPACTION 2012-12-20 17:40:18 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c
filemap_xip.c
fremap.c
frontswap.c
highmem.c Some nice cleanups, and even a patch my wife did as a "live" demo for 2012-12-20 08:37:05 -08:00
huge_memory.c mm: clean up transparent hugepage sysfs error messages 2012-12-20 17:40:20 -08:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb: create hugetlb cgroup file in hugetlb_init 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm/hugetlb: create hugetlb cgroup file in hugetlb_init 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig memory-hotplug: document and enable CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE 2012-12-18 15:02:12 -08:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm/kmemleak.c: remove obsolete simple_strtoul 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
ksm.c ksm: make rmap walks more scalable 2012-12-20 07:06:56 -08:00
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile
memblock.c
memcontrol.c memcg: don't register hotcpu notifier from ->css_alloc() 2012-12-20 17:40:20 -08:00
memory-failure.c Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
memory.c mm: use kbasename() 2012-12-17 17:15:17 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug.c: improve comments 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
mempolicy.c mm: mempolicy: Convert shared_policy mutex to spinlock 2013-01-02 17:32:13 -08:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm,numa: fix update_mmu_cache_pmd call 2012-12-17 19:37:03 -08:00
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c mm/mprotect.c: coding-style cleanups 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
mremap.c Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c
page-writeback.c mm: fix calculation of dirtyable memory 2012-12-20 17:40:18 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: cma: WARN if freed memory is still in use 2012-12-20 17:40:19 -08:00
page_cgroup.c
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
pagewalk.c
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
shmem.c mempolicy: remove arg from mpol_parse_str, mpol_to_str 2013-01-02 09:27:10 -08:00
slab.c memcg: add comments clarifying aspects of cache attribute propagation 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
slab.h slab: propagate tunable values 2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
slab_common.c slab: propagate tunable values 2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
slob.c sl[au]b: always get the cache from its page in kmem_cache_free() 2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
slub.c slub: drop mutex before deleting sysfs entry 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap.c
swap_state.c
swapfile.c
truncate.c mm: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 18:46:29 -05:00
util.c
vmalloc.c
vmscan.c mm: fix null pointer dereference in wait_iff_congested() 2012-12-28 08:42:39 -08:00
vmstat.c Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00