Re: [BUG] at include/linux/page-flags.h:415 (PageTransHuge)

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 01/31/2014 03:58 PM, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> On 01/31/2014 03:40 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> On 01/15/2014 05:06 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>>> [keeping netdev in loop as well]
>>>
>>> On 01/15/2014 03:27 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>>> On 01/13/2014 12:39 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>>>>> On 01/13/2014 11:16 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>>>>> On 01/11/2014 02:32 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>>>>>>> On 01/11/2014 07:22 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:23:26 +0100 Daniel Borkmann <borkmann@iogearbox.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This is being reliably triggered for each mmaped() packet(7)
>>>>>>>>> socket from user space, basically during unmapping resp.
>>>>>>>>> closing the TX socket.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I believe due to some change in transparent hugepages code ?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> When I disable transparent hugepages, everything works fine,
>>>>>>>>> no BUG triggered.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'd be happy to test patches.
>>>>>>>> Did the inclusion of c424be1cbbf852e46acc8 ("mm: munlock: fix a bug
>>>>>>>> where THP tail page is encountered") in current mainline fix this?
>>>>>>> Thanks for your answer Andrew!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hm, I just cherry-picked that onto current net-next as I have some work
>>>>>>> there, and this time I got ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (User space uses packet mmap() and mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE)
>>>>>>>         and on shutdown munlockall() ...)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [   63.863672] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>>>>>> [   63.863702] kernel BUG at mm/mlock.c:507!
>>>>>>> [   63.863721] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
>>>>>>> [   63.863743] Modules linked in: fuse ebtable_nat xt_CHECKSUM nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_broadcast ipt_MASQUERADE ip6table_nat nf_nat_ipv6 ip6table_mangle ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat iptable_mangle nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack bridge ebtable_filter ebtables stp llc ip6table_filter ip6_tables rfcomm bnep snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec iwlwifi cfg80211 snd_hwdep btusb snd_seq bluetooth sdhci_pci snd_seq_device e1000e tpm_tis snd_pcm thinkpad_acpi sdhci ptp tpm uvcvideo pps_core snd_page_alloc snd_timer snd rfkill mmc_core iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support lpc_ich mfd_core soundcore joydev wmi videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_core i2c_i801 pcspkr videodev media uinput i915
>>>>>>> [   63.864152]  i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper drm i2c_core video
>>>>>>> [   63.864181] CPU: 1 PID: 1617 Comm: trafgen Not tainted 3.13.0-rc6+ #15
>>>>>>> [   63.864209] Hardware name: LENOVO 2429BP3/2429BP3, BIOS G4ET37WW (1.12 ) 05/29/2012
>>>>>>> [   63.864242] task: ffff8801ee060000 ti: ffff8800b5954000 task.ti: ffff8800b5954000
>>>>>>> [   63.864274] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8116fa9a>]  [<ffffffff8116fa9a>] munlock_vma_pages_range+0x2ea/0x2f0
>>>>>>> [   63.864318] RSP: 0018:ffff8800b5955e08  EFLAGS: 00010202
>>>>>>> [   63.864341] RAX: 00000000000001ff RBX: ffff8800b58f7508 RCX: 0000000000000034
>>>>>>> [   63.864372] RDX: 00000007f0708992 RSI: ffffea0002c3e700 RDI: ffffea0002c3e700
>>>>>>> [   63.864402] RBP: ffff8800b5955ee0 R08: 3800000000000000 R09: a8000b0f9c000000
>>>>>>> [   63.864432] R10: 57ffdef066c3e700 R11: ffffff5cfb00c14a R12: ffffea0002c3e700
>>>>>>> [   63.864462] R13: ffff8800b5955f48 R14: 00007f0708992000 R15: 00007f0708992000
>>>>>>> [   63.864492] FS:  00007f0708b92740(0000) GS:ffff88021e240000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>>>>>>> [   63.864526] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>>>>>>> [   63.864551] CR2: 00007f33bb373000 CR3: 00000000b2a2c000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
>>>>>>> [   63.864581] Stack:
>>>>>>> [   63.864593]  ffff8800b5955ed0 00007f0708b91fff 00007f0708b92000 ffff8800b5955e48
>>>>>>> [   63.864632]  000001ff810c864b ffff8801ee060000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>>>>>> [   63.864669]  ffff8800b5955e58 ffff8801ee060000 0000000700000086 ffff8801ee060000
>>>>>>> [   63.864708] Call Trace:
>>>>>>> [   63.864724]  [<ffffffff816956bc>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2c/0x30
>>>>>>> [   63.864754]  [<ffffffff81171b52>] ? vma_merge+0xc2/0x330
>>>>>>> [   63.864786]  [<ffffffff8116fb9c>] mlock_fixup+0xfc/0x190
>>>>>>> [   63.864812]  [<ffffffff8116fde7>] do_mlockall+0x87/0xc0
>>>>>>> [   63.864836]  [<ffffffff811702df>] sys_munlockall+0x2f/0x50
>>>>>>> [   63.864873]  [<ffffffff8169e192>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>>>>>>> [   63.864898] Code: d7 48 89 95 28 ff ff ff e8 a4 04 fe ff 84 c0 48 8b 95 28 ff ff ff 0f 85 5a ff ff ff e9 46 ff ff ff e8 3f ac 51 00 e8 34 ac 51 00 <0f> 0b 0f 1f 40 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55
>>>>>>> [   63.865114] RIP  [<ffffffff8116fa9a>] munlock_vma_pages_range+0x2ea/0x2f0
>>>>>>> [   63.865148]  RSP <ffff8800b5955e08>
>>>>>>> [   63.874968] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ... when I find some time, I'll try with normal torvalds' tree, maybe some
>>>>>>> other patches are missing as well, not sure right now.
>>>>>> Uh so the triggered assertion is the one added by this very patch, and there are no more changes wrt this in mainline.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you can still try debug patches, please try this. Thanks.
>>>>> Yes, thanks, I'll come back to you some time by today.
>>>> Daniel sent me (off-list) instructions to reproduce:
>>>>
>>>>> Then in the kernel source tree, you'll find:
>>>>>
>>>>>       tools/testing/selftests/net/
>>>>>
>>>>> There, just do a 'make' and run ./psock_tpacket
>>>> It reproduces deterministically in mainline since 3.12, i.e. my munlock
>>>> performance series. Based on the initial debug output, I've expanded the
>>>> debug patch below a bit:
>>>>
>>>>>> From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
>>>>>> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:13:53 +0100
>>>>>> Subject: [PATCH] debug munlock_vma_pages_range
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>       mm/mlock.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
>>>>>>       1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
>>>>>> index c59c420..7d0e29a 100644
>>>>>> --- a/mm/mlock.c
>>>>>> +++ b/mm/mlock.c
>>>>>> @@ -448,12 +448,14 @@ static unsigned long __munlock_pagevec_fill(struct pagevec *pvec,
>>>>>>       void munlock_vma_pages_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>>>>>>       			     unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>>>>>>       {
>>>>>> +	unsigned long orig_start = start;
>>>>>> +	unsigned long page_increm = 0;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>>       	vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_LOCKED;
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       	while (start < end) {
>>>>>>       		struct page *page = NULL;
>>>>>>       		unsigned int page_mask;
>>>>>> -		unsigned long page_increm;
>>>>>>       		struct pagevec pvec;
>>>>>>       		struct zone *zone;
>>>>>>       		int zoneid;
>>>>>> @@ -504,7 +506,23 @@ void munlock_vma_pages_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>>>>>>       			}
>>>>>>       		}
>>>>>>       		/* It's a bug to munlock in the middle of a THP page */
>>>>>> -		VM_BUG_ON((start >> PAGE_SHIFT) & page_mask);
>>>>>> +		if ((start >> PAGE_SHIFT) & page_mask) {
>>>>>> +			dump_page(page);
>>>>>> +			printk("start=%lu pfn=%lu orig_start=%lu "
>>>>>> +			       "prev_page_increm=%lu page_mask=%u "
>>>>>> +			       "vm_start=%lu vm_end=%lu vm_flags=%lu\n",
>>>>>> +				start, page_to_pfn(page), orig_start,
>>>>>> +				page_increm, page_mask,
>>>>>> +				vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end,
>>>>>> +				vma->vm_flags);
>>>> +                        printk("vm_ops=%pF, open=%pF, fault=%pF, remap_pages=%pF\n", vma->vm_ops,
>>>> +                                vma->vm_ops->open, vma->vm_ops->fault, vma->vm_ops->remap_pages);
>>>> +                        if (PageCompound(page)) {
>>>> +                                printk("page is compound with order=%d\n", compound_order(page));
>>>> +                        }
>>>>>> +			if (PageTail(page)) {
>>>>>> +				struct page *first_page = page->first_page;
>>>>>> +				printk("first_page pfn=%lu\n",
>>>>>> +						page_to_pfn(first_page));
>>>>>> +				dump_page(first_page);
>>>>>> +			}
>>>>>> +			VM_BUG_ON(true);
>>>>>> +		}
>>>>>>       		page_increm = 1 + page_mask;
>>>>>>       		start += page_increm * PAGE_SIZE;
>>>>>>       next:
>>>>>>
>>>> And got output like this:
>>>>
>>>> page:ffffea0002474a40 count:5 mapcount:1 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
>>>> page flags: 0x100000000004004(referenced|head)
>>>> start=140242647736320 pfn=682616 orig_start=140242647736320 prev_page_increm=0 page_mask=511 vm_start=140242647736320 vm_end=140242651930624 vm_flags=268435707
>>>> vm_ops=packet_mmap_ops+0x0/0xfffffffffffff8e0 [af_packet], open=packet_mm_open+0x0/0x30 [af_packet], fault=          (null), remap_pages=          (null)
>>>> page is compound with order=2
>>>>
>>>> Observations:
>>>> - address 140242647736320 is where the vma starts, and is not aligned to 512 pages
>>>>      (so it cannot be a THP head which the munlock expects). Yet there is a head page
>>>>      that triggers the PageTransHuge() and consequently hpage_nr_pages() in munlock_vma_page()
>>>>      That's why page_mask is determined to be 511 and the code thinks it's in the
>>>>      middle of a THP page.
>>>> - in fact, the page is a compound page with order=2
>>>> - the VM flags (except (may)read/write) are VM_SHARED and VM_MIXEDMAP
>>>> - the vma was mmapped by packet_mmap() (net/packet/af_packet.c) which uses
>>>>      vm_insert_page(), which adds the VM_MIXEDMAP flag
>>>> - the buffers that are mapped were allocated by alloc_one_pg_vec_page()
>>>>      where flags indeed include __GFP_COMP
>>>>
>>>> So clearly there is a way to have mlock/munlock operate on a vma that contains
>>>> compound pages and confuse the checks for PageTransHuge().
>>>>
>>>> The checks for THP in munlock came with commit ff6a6da60b89 ("mm: accelerate munlock()
>>>> treatment of THP pages"), i.e. since 3.9, but did not trigger a bug. It however
>>>> makes munlock_vma_pages_range() skip pages until the next 512-pages-aligned page,
>>>> when it encounters a head page. If the head page is of smaller order and is followed
>>>> by normal LRU pages (theoretically, I'm not sure if that's possible, or done anywhere),
>>>> they wouldn't get munlocked.
>>>>
>>>> My commit 7225522bb429 ("mm: munlock: batch non-THP page isolation and
>>>> munlock+putback using pagevec") (since 3.12) has added a new PageTransHuge() check
>>>> that can trigger on tail pages of the compound page here. Commit c424be1cbbf852e46acc8
>>>> ("mm: munlock: fix a bug where THP tail page is encountered") in current rc's removes
>>>> one class of bugs here, but still non-THP compound pages are not expected in mlock/munlock,
>>>> which leads to this assertion failing.
>>>>
>>>> The question is what is the correct fix, and I'm not that familiar with VM_MIXEDMAP
>>>> to decide.
>>>>
>>>> Option 1: mlocking VM_MIXEDMAP vma's has no sense. They should be treated like VM_PFNMAP
>>>>              and added to VM_SPECIAL, which makes m(un)lock skip them completely.
>>>>
>>>> Option 2: if indeed VM_MIXEDMAP can contain PageLRU pages for which mlocking is useful,
>>>>              VM_NO_THP should be checked in munlock before attempting PageTransHuge() and
>>>>              friends. VM_NO_THP already contains VM_MIXEDMAP, so knowing that there can be
>>>>              no THP means we don't try optimize for it and no unexpected head pages trip us.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>> OK, here's a RFC patch to hopefully help get us somewhere. I went for
>> Option1, as I didn't see anyone using VM_MIXEDMAP also for LRU pages,
>> and Option2 was ugly to implement and also seemed quite arbitrary. I'm
>> not sure if making VM_MIXEDMAP also non-mergeable this way is an issue
>> though.
>>
>>
>
> Hi!
>
> Forgive an ignorant question, but are anonymous COW'd pages LRU pages?

I believe so, but I've checked where VM_MIXEDMAP is used in TTM and it 
seems all those vma's are also VM_IO which means they are already 
included in VM_SPECIAL and this change won't affect them.

Vlastimil

> The reason I'm asking is that TTM VM_MIXEDMAP vmas may contain such pages.
>
> /Thomas
>
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