huge tmpfs: SGP_NOALLOC to stop collapse_file() on race
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Thu, 2 Sep 2021 21:54:34 +0000 (14:54 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:58:12 +0000 (09:58 -0700)
commitacdd9f8e0fed9f1bd7e83a8ff934694bb4c9a72b
tree4fb4fd74ae8c1086a715d7515a2d7187b20190c5
parentc852023e6fd4fa5f75175729e0b55abb062ca799
huge tmpfs: SGP_NOALLOC to stop collapse_file() on race

khugepaged's collapse_file() currently uses SGP_NOHUGE to tell
shmem_getpage() not to try allocating a huge page, in the very unlikely
event that a racing hole-punch removes the swapped or fallocated page as
soon as i_pages lock is dropped.

We want to consolidate shmem's huge decisions, removing SGP_HUGE and
SGP_NOHUGE; but cannot quite persuade ourselves that it's okay to regress
the protection in this case - Yang Shi points out that the huge page would
remain indefinitely, charged to root instead of the intended memcg.

collapse_file() should not even allocate a small page in this case: why
proceed if someone is punching a hole?  SGP_READ is almost the right flag
here, except that it optimizes away from a fallocated page, with NULL to
tell caller to fill with zeroes (like a hole); whereas collapse_file()'s
sequence relies on using a cache page.  Add SGP_NOALLOC just for this.

There are too many consecutive "if (page"s there in shmem_getpage_gfp():
group it better; and fix the outdated "bring it back from swap" comment.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1355343b-acf-4653-ef79-6aee40214ac5@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/shmem_fs.h
mm/khugepaged.c
mm/shmem.c