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| author | Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> | 2026-03-05 04:50:06 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-03-11 02:01:49 +0300 |
| commit | 939080834fef3ce42fdbcfef33fd29c9ffe5bbed (patch) | |
| tree | 1afb4c655939381123194312ebd81e6577e4e423 | |
| parent | 29f40594a28114b9a9bc87f6cf7bbee9609628f2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-939080834fef3ce42fdbcfef33fd29c9ffe5bbed.tar.xz | |
mm/huge_memory: fix early failure try_to_migrate() when split huge pmd for shared THP
Commit 60fbb14396d5 ("mm/huge_memory: adjust try_to_migrate_one() and
split_huge_pmd_locked()") return false unconditionally after
split_huge_pmd_locked(). This may fail try_to_migrate() early when
TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD is specified.
The reason is the above commit adjusted try_to_migrate_one() to, when a
PMD-mapped THP entry is found, and TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD is specified (for
example, via unmap_folio()), return false unconditionally. This breaks
the rmap walk and fail try_to_migrate() early, if this PMD-mapped THP is
mapped in multiple processes.
The user sensible impact of this bug could be:
* On memory pressure, shrink_folio_list() may split partially mapped
folio with split_folio_to_list(). Then free unmapped pages without IO.
If failed, it may not be reclaimed.
* On memory failure, memory_failure() would call try_to_split_thp_page()
to split folio contains the bad page. If succeed, the PG_has_hwpoisoned
bit is only set in the after-split folio contains @split_at. By doing
so, we limit bad memory. If failed to split, the whole folios is not
usable.
One way to reproduce:
Create an anonymous THP range and fork 512 children, so we have a
THP shared mapped in 513 processes. Then trigger folio split with
/sys/kernel/debug/split_huge_pages debugfs to split the THP folio to
order 0.
Without the above commit, we can successfully split to order 0. With the
above commit, the folio is still a large folio.
And currently there are two core users of TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD:
* try_to_unmap_one()
* try_to_migrate_one()
try_to_unmap_one() would restart the rmap walk, so only
try_to_migrate_one() is affected.
We can't simply revert commit 60fbb14396d5 ("mm/huge_memory: adjust
try_to_migrate_one() and split_huge_pmd_locked()"), since it removed some
duplicated check covered by page_vma_mapped_walk().
This patch fixes this by restart page_vma_mapped_walk() after
split_huge_pmd_locked(). Since we cannot simply return "true" to fix the
problem, as that would affect another case:
When invoking folio_try_share_anon_rmap_pmd() from
split_huge_pmd_locked(), the latter can fail and leave a large folio
mapped through PTEs, in which case we ought to return true from
try_to_migrate_one(). This might result in unnecessary walking of the
rmap but is relatively harmless.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260305015006.27343-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Fixes: 60fbb14396d5 ("mm/huge_memory: adjust try_to_migrate_one() and split_huge_pmd_locked()")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Guo <gavinguo@igalia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/rmap.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index b1ba1236ffba..391337282e3f 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -2450,11 +2450,17 @@ static bool try_to_migrate_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma, __maybe_unused pmd_t pmdval; if (flags & TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD) { + /* + * split_huge_pmd_locked() might leave the + * folio mapped through PTEs. Retry the walk + * so we can detect this scenario and properly + * abort the walk. + */ split_huge_pmd_locked(vma, pvmw.address, pvmw.pmd, true); - ret = false; - page_vma_mapped_walk_done(&pvmw); - break; + flags &= ~TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD; + page_vma_mapped_walk_restart(&pvmw); + continue; } #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION pmdval = pmdp_get(pvmw.pmd); |
