Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix mmap MAP_POPULATE for DAX pmd mapping

[Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> wrote:
> The following oops was observed when mmap() with MAP_POPULATE
> pre-faulted pmd mappings of a DAX file.  follow_trans_huge_pmd()
> expects that a target address has a struct page.
>
>   BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffea0012220000
>   follow_trans_huge_pmd+0xba/0x390
>   follow_page_mask+0x33d/0x420
>   __get_user_pages+0xdc/0x800
>   populate_vma_page_range+0xb5/0xe0
>   __mm_populate+0xc5/0x150
>   vm_mmap_pgoff+0xd5/0xe0
>   SyS_mmap_pgoff+0x1c1/0x290
>   SyS_mmap+0x1b/0x30
>
> Fix it by making the PMD pre-fault handling consistent with PTE.
> After pre-faulted in faultin_page(), follow_page_mask() calls
> follow_trans_huge_pmd(), which is changed to call follow_pfn_pmd()
> for VM_PFNMAP or VM_MIXEDMAP.  follow_pfn_pmd() handles FOLL_TOUCH
> and returns with -EEXIST.
>
> Reported-by: Mauricio Porto <mauricio.porto@hpe.com>
> Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
> ---

Hey Toshi,

I ended up fixing this differently with follow_pmd_devmap() introduced
in this series:

https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-November/003033.html

Does the latest libnvdimm-pending branch [1] pass your test case?

[1]: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm libnvdimm-pending