kernel/events/uprobes.c: only do FOLL_SPLIT_PMD for uprobe register
authorSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Sat, 19 Oct 2019 03:20:40 +0000 (20:20 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:32:33 +0000 (06:32 -0400)
commitaa5de305c90c995321df452f274fe75b52bd8fcc
tree6ce098dda02fa906d14be6e8bd338d34a105945d
parentef18a1ca847b01cb7296f11a728cb2f5ef671760
kernel/events/uprobes.c: only do FOLL_SPLIT_PMD for uprobe register

Attaching uprobe to text section in THP splits the PMD mapped page table
into PTE mapped entries.  On uprobe detach, we would like to regroup PMD
mapped page table entry to regain performance benefit of THP.

However, the regroup is broken For perf_event based trace_uprobe.  This
is because perf_event based trace_uprobe calls uprobe_unregister twice
on close: first in TRACE_REG_PERF_CLOSE, then in
TRACE_REG_PERF_UNREGISTER.  The second call will split the PMD mapped
page table entry, which is not the desired behavior.

Fix this by only use FOLL_SPLIT_PMD for uprobe register case.

Add a WARN() to confirm uprobe unregister never work on huge pages, and
abort the operation when this WARN() triggers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191017164223.2762148-6-songliubraving@fb.com
Fixes: 5a52c9df62b4 ("uprobe: use FOLL_SPLIT_PMD instead of FOLL_SPLIT")
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/events/uprobes.c