mm: fix BUG in __split_huge_page_pmd
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:47:08 +0000 (13:47 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 04:35:53 +0000 (21:35 -0700)
Occasionally we hit the BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) at the end of
__split_huge_page_pmd(): seen when doing madvise(,,MADV_DONTNEED).

It's invalid: we don't always have down_write of mmap_sem there: a racing
do_huge_pmd_wp_page() might have copied-on-write to another huge page
before our split_huge_page() got the anon_vma lock.

Forget the BUG_ON, just go back and try again if this happens.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/huge_memory.c

index 7489884..610e3df 100644 (file)
@@ -2697,6 +2697,7 @@ void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 
        mmun_start = haddr;
        mmun_end   = haddr + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;
+again:
        mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
        spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        if (unlikely(!pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) {
@@ -2719,7 +2720,14 @@ void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
        split_huge_page(page);
 
        put_page(page);
-       BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd));
+
+       /*
+        * We don't always have down_write of mmap_sem here: a racing
+        * do_huge_pmd_wp_page() might have copied-on-write to another
+        * huge page before our split_huge_page() got the anon_vma lock.
+        */
+       if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)))
+               goto again;
 }
 
 void split_huge_page_pmd_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,