mm: fix is_pinnable_page against a cma page
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Tue, 24 May 2022 17:15:25 +0000 (10:15 -0700)
committerakpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 27 May 2022 16:33:46 +0000 (09:33 -0700)
commit1c563432588dbffa71e67ca6e37c826f9fa86e04
tree429c3c09f94dbeb3857f580985b68788baa48c74
parentba6851b45d2d5b07436d8fc43451bad354dc4884
mm: fix is_pinnable_page against a cma page

Pages in the CMA area could have MIGRATE_ISOLATE as well as MIGRATE_CMA so
the current is_pinnable_page() could miss CMA pages which have
MIGRATE_ISOLATE.  It ends up pinning CMA pages as longterm for the
pin_user_pages() API so CMA allocations keep failing until the pin is
released.

     CPU 0                                   CPU 1 - Task B

cma_alloc
alloc_contig_range
                                        pin_user_pages_fast(FOLL_LONGTERM)
change pageblock as MIGRATE_ISOLATE
                                        internal_get_user_pages_fast
                                        lockless_pages_from_mm
                                        gup_pte_range
                                        try_grab_folio
                                        is_pinnable_page
                                          return true;
                                        So, pinned the page successfully.
page migration failure with pinned page
                                        ..
                                        .. After 30 sec
                                        unpin_user_page(page)

CMA allocation succeeded after 30 sec.

The CMA allocation path protects the migration type change race using
zone->lock but what GUP path need to know is just whether the page is on
CMA area or not rather than exact migration type.  Thus, we don't need
zone->lock but just checks migration type in either of (MIGRATE_ISOLATE
and MIGRATE_CMA).

Adding the MIGRATE_ISOLATE check in is_pinnable_page could cause rejecting
of pinning pages on MIGRATE_ISOLATE pageblocks even though it's neither
CMA nor movable zone if the page is temporarily unmovable.  However, such
a migration failure by unexpected temporal refcount holding is general
issue, not only come from MIGRATE_ISOLATE and the MIGRATE_ISOLATE is also
transient state like other temporal elevated refcount problem.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220524171525.976723-1-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
mm/page_alloc.c