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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2009-09-21 17:02:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-22 07:17:32 -0700
commit1c2fb7a4c2ca7a958b02bc1e615d0254990bba8d (patch)
tree489a97bd453b8002f2234f7e736548103315fa38 /include/linux
parent9ba6929480088a85c1ff60a4b1f1c9fc80dbd2b7 (diff)
ksm: fix deadlock with munlock in exit_mmap
Rawhide users have reported hang at startup when cryptsetup is run: the same problem can be simply reproduced by running a program int main() { mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE); return 0; } The problem is that exit_mmap() applies munlock_vma_pages_all() to clean up VM_LOCKED areas, and its current implementation (stupidly) tries to fault in absent pages, for example where PROT_NONE prevented them being faulted in when mlocking. Whereas the "ksm: fix oom deadlock" patch, knowing there's a race by which KSM might try to fault in pages after exit_mmap() had finally zapped the range, backs out of such faults doing nothing when its ksm_test_exit() notices mm_users 0. So revert that part of "ksm: fix oom deadlock" which moved the ksm_exit() call from before exit_mmap() to the middle of exit_mmap(); and remove those ksm_test_exit() checks from the page fault paths, so allowing the munlocking to proceed without interference. ksm_exit, if there are rmap_items still chained on this mm slot, takes mmap_sem write side: so preventing KSM from working on an mm while exit_mmap runs. And KSM will bail out as soon as it notices that mm_users is already zero, thanks to its internal ksm_test_exit checks. So that when a task is killed by OOM killer or the user, KSM will not indefinitely prevent it from running exit_mmap to release its memory. This does break a part of what "ksm: fix oom deadlock" was trying to achieve. When unmerging KSM (echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm), and even when ksmd itself has to cancel a KSM page, it is possible that the first OOM-kill victim would be the KSM process being faulted: then its memory won't be freed until a second victim has been selected (freeing memory for the unmerging fault to complete). But the OOM killer is already liable to kill a second victim once the intended victim's p->mm goes to NULL: so there's not much point in rejecting this KSM patch before fixing that OOM behaviour. It is very much more important to allow KSM users to boot up, than to haggle over an unlikely and poorly supported OOM case. We also intend to fix munlocking to not fault pages: at which point this patch _could_ be reverted; though that would be controversial, so we hope to find a better solution. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com> Acked-for-now-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ksm.h11
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ksm.h b/include/linux/ksm.h
index 2d64ff30c0d..0e26de6adb5 100644
--- a/include/linux/ksm.h
+++ b/include/linux/ksm.h
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ struct mmu_gather;
int ksm_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, int advice, unsigned long *vm_flags);
int __ksm_enter(struct mm_struct *mm);
-void __ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm,
- struct mmu_gather **tlbp, unsigned long end);
+void __ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm);
static inline int ksm_fork(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
{
@@ -41,11 +40,10 @@ static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
return atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 0;
}
-static inline void ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm,
- struct mmu_gather **tlbp, unsigned long end)
+static inline void ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
if (test_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags))
- __ksm_exit(mm, tlbp, end);
+ __ksm_exit(mm);
}
/*
@@ -86,8 +84,7 @@ static inline bool ksm_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
return 0;
}
-static inline void ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm,
- struct mmu_gather **tlbp, unsigned long end)
+static inline void ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
}