Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753519Ab0DVQOL (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:14:11 -0400 Received: from gir.skynet.ie ([193.1.99.77]:46432 "EHLO gir.skynet.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752787Ab0DVQOH (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:14:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:13:47 +0100 From: Mel Gorman To: Minchan Kim Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Christoph Lameter , Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , Adam Litke , Avi Kivity , David Rientjes , KOSAKI Motohiro , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] mm,migration: Allow the migration of PageSwapCache pages Message-ID: <20100422161347.GF30306@csn.ul.ie> References: <20100421153421.GM30306@csn.ul.ie> <20100422092819.GR30306@csn.ul.ie> <20100422184621.0aaaeb5f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100422193106.9ffad4ec.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100422195153.d91c1c9e.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100422141404.GA30306@csn.ul.ie> <20100422154003.GC30306@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20100422154003.GC30306@csn.ul.ie> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3659 Lines: 84 On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 04:40:03PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:18:14PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 07:51:53PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > >> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:31:06 +0900 > > >> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > >> > > >> > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:13:12 +0900 > > >> > Minchan Kim wrote: > > >> > > > >> > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:46 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > > >> > > wrote: > > >> > > > >> > > > Hmm..in my test, the case was. > > >> > > > > > >> > > > Before try_to_unmap: > > >> > > > ? ? ? ?mapcount=1, SwapCache, remap_swapcache=1 > > >> > > > After remap > > >> > > > ? ? ? ?mapcount=0, SwapCache, rc=0. > > >> > > > > > >> > > > So, I think there may be some race in rmap_walk() and vma handling or > > >> > > > anon_vma handling. migration_entry isn't found by rmap_walk. > > >> > > > > > >> > > > Hmm..it seems this kind patch will be required for debug. > > >> > > > > >> > > >> Ok, here is my patch for _fix_. But still testing... > > >> Running well at least for 30 minutes, where I can see bug in 10minutes. > > >> But this patch is too naive. please think about something better fix. > > >> > > >> == > > >> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > > >> > > >> At adjust_vma(), vma's start address and pgoff is updated under > > >> write lock of mmap_sem. This means the vma's rmap information > > >> update is atoimic only under read lock of mmap_sem. > > >> > > >> > > >> Even if it's not atomic, in usual case, try_to_ummap() etc... > > >> just fails to decrease mapcount to be 0. no problem. > > >> > > >> But at page migration's rmap_walk(), it requires to know all > > >> migration_entry in page tables and recover mapcount. > > >> > > >> So, this race in vma's address is critical. When rmap_walk meet > > >> the race, rmap_walk will mistakenly get -EFAULT and don't call > > >> rmap_one(). This patch adds a lock for vma's rmap information. > > >> But, this is _very slow_. > > > > > > Ok wow. That is exceptionally well-spotted. This looks like a proper bug > > > that compaction exposes as opposed to a bug that compaction introduces. > > > > > >> We need something sophisitcated, light-weight update for this.. > > >> > > > > > > In the event the VMA is backed by a file, the mapping i_mmap_lock is taken for > > > the duration of the update and is ?taken elsewhere where the VMA information > > > is read such as rmap_walk_file() > > > > > > In the event the VMA is anon, vma_adjust currently talks no locks and your > > > patch introduces a new one but why not use the anon_vma lock here? Am I > > > missing something that requires the new lock? > > > > rmap_walk_anon doesn't hold vma's anon_vma->lock. > > It holds page->anon_vma->lock. > > > > Of course, thank you for pointing out my error. With multiple > anon_vma's, the locking is a bit of a mess. We cannot hold spinlocks on > two vma's in the same list at the same time without potentially causing > a livelock. Incidentally, I now belatedly see why Kamezawa introduced a new lock. I assume it was to get around this mess. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/