From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
To: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: rmap: Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when migration
Date: Sun, 8 May 2022 21:31:54 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YnfGSu8tPzTt9ozL@FVFYT0MHHV2J.usts.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ec8a987be1a5400e077260a300d0079564b1472.1652002221.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 05:36:40PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
> On some architectures (like ARM64), it can support CONT-PTE/PMD size
> hugetlb, which means it can support not only PMD/PUD size hugetlb:
> 2M and 1G, but also CONT-PTE/PMD size: 64K and 32M if a 4K page
> size specified.
>
> When migrating a hugetlb page, we will get the relevant page table
> entry by huge_pte_offset() only once to nuke it and remap it with
> a migration pte entry. This is correct for PMD or PUD size hugetlb,
> since they always contain only one pmd entry or pud entry in the
> page table.
>
> However this is incorrect for CONT-PTE and CONT-PMD size hugetlb,
> since they can contain several continuous pte or pmd entry with
> same page table attributes. So we will nuke or remap only one pte
> or pmd entry for this CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb page, which is
> not expected for hugetlb migration. The problem is we can still
> continue to modify the subpages' data of a hugetlb page during
> migrating a hugetlb page, which can cause a serious data consistent
> issue, since we did not nuke the page table entry and set a
> migration pte for the subpages of a hugetlb page.
>
> To fix this issue, we should change to use huge_ptep_clear_flush()
> to nuke a hugetlb page table, and remap it with set_huge_pte_at()
> and set_huge_swap_pte_at() when migrating a hugetlb page, which
> already considered the CONT-PTE or CONT-PMD size hugetlb.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
This looks fine to me.
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-08 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-08 9:36 [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when unmapping or migrating Baolin Wang
2022-05-08 9:36 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: change huge_ptep_clear_flush() to return the original pte Baolin Wang
2022-05-08 11:09 ` Muchun Song
2022-05-08 13:09 ` Baolin Wang
2022-05-09 4:06 ` Muchun Song
2022-05-09 5:46 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-05-09 8:46 ` Baolin Wang
2022-05-09 20:02 ` Mike Kravetz
2022-05-10 1:35 ` Baolin Wang
2022-05-08 9:36 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: rmap: Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when migration Baolin Wang
2022-05-08 12:01 ` kernel test robot
2022-05-08 13:13 ` Baolin Wang
2022-05-08 12:11 ` kernel test robot
2022-05-08 13:31 ` Muchun Song [this message]
2022-05-09 21:05 ` Mike Kravetz
2022-05-08 9:36 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: rmap: Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when unmapping Baolin Wang
2022-05-09 6:42 ` Muchun Song
2022-05-09 22:25 ` Mike Kravetz
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