Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: Don't put_page in lock of hugetlb_lock

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Sat 04-05-19 20:28:24, Zhiqiang Liu wrote:
> From: Kai Shen <shenkai8@huawei.com>
> 
> spinlock recursion happened when do LTP test:
> #!/bin/bash
> ./runltp -p -f hugetlb &
> ./runltp -p -f hugetlb &
> ./runltp -p -f hugetlb &
> ./runltp -p -f hugetlb &
> ./runltp -p -f hugetlb &
> 
> The dtor returned by get_compound_page_dtor in __put_compound_page
> may be the function of free_huge_page which will lock the hugetlb_lock,
> so don't put_page in lock of hugetlb_lock.
> 
>  BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, hugemmap05/1079
>   lock: hugetlb_lock+0x0/0x18, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: hugemmap05/1079, .owner_cpu: 0
>  Call trace:
>   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x198
>   show_stack+0x24/0x30
>   dump_stack+0xa4/0xcc
>   spin_dump+0x84/0xa8
>   do_raw_spin_lock+0xd0/0x108
>   _raw_spin_lock+0x20/0x30
>   free_huge_page+0x9c/0x260
>   __put_compound_page+0x44/0x50
>   __put_page+0x2c/0x60
>   alloc_surplus_huge_page.constprop.19+0xf0/0x140
>   hugetlb_acct_memory+0x104/0x378
>   hugetlb_reserve_pages+0xe0/0x250
>   hugetlbfs_file_mmap+0xc0/0x140
>   mmap_region+0x3e8/0x5b0
>   do_mmap+0x280/0x460
>   vm_mmap_pgoff+0xf4/0x128
>   ksys_mmap_pgoff+0xb4/0x258
>   __arm64_sys_mmap+0x34/0x48
>   el0_svc_common+0x78/0x130
>   el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78
>   el0_svc+0x8/0xc
> 
> Fixes: 9980d744a0 ("mm, hugetlb: get rid of surplus page accounting tricks")
> Signed-off-by: Kai Shen <shenkai8@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Feilong Lin <linfeilong@huawei.com>
> Reported-by: Wang Wang <wangwang2@huawei.com>

You are right. I must have completely missed that put_page path
unconditionally takes the hugetlb_lock for hugetlb pages.

Thanks for fixing this. I think this should be marked for stable
because it is not hard to imagine a regular user might trigger this.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 6cdc7b2..c1e7b81 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -1574,8 +1574,9 @@ static struct page *alloc_surplus_huge_page(struct hstate *h, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  	 */
>  	if (h->surplus_huge_pages >= h->nr_overcommit_huge_pages) {
>  		SetPageHugeTemporary(page);
> +		spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
>  		put_page(page);
> -		page = NULL;
> +		return NULL;
>  	} else {
>  		h->surplus_huge_pages++;
>  		h->surplus_huge_pages_node[page_to_nid(page)]++;
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
> 

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs