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authorChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>2018-07-13 16:58:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-07-14 11:11:09 -0700
commitbce73e4842390f7b7309c8e253e139db71288ac3 (patch)
treeac9b8bf5f1ac4fa8d53d6cbfe731de70a2416344 /mm/rmap.c
parent3951dbf232e8500bef27f77437fd5d04b67cc6d1 (diff)
downloadlinux-bce73e4842390f7b7309c8e253e139db71288ac3.tar.gz
mm: do not drop unused pages when userfaultd is running
KVM guests on s390 can notify the host of unused pages.  This can result
in pte_unused callbacks to be true for KVM guest memory.

If a page is unused (checked with pte_unused) we might drop this page
instead of paging it.  This can have side-effects on userfaultd, when
the page in question was already migrated:

The next access of that page will trigger a fault and a user fault
instead of faulting in a new and empty zero page.  As QEMU does not
expect a userfault on an already migrated page this migration will fail.

The most straightforward solution is to ignore the pte_unused hint if a
userfault context is active for this VMA.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703171854.63981-1-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/rmap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/rmap.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 6db729dc4c50..eb477809a5c0 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 #include <linux/page_idle.h>
 #include <linux/memremap.h>
+#include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
@@ -1481,11 +1482,16 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				set_pte_at(mm, address, pvmw.pte, pteval);
 			}
 
-		} else if (pte_unused(pteval)) {
+		} else if (pte_unused(pteval) && !userfaultfd_armed(vma)) {
 			/*
 			 * The guest indicated that the page content is of no
 			 * interest anymore. Simply discard the pte, vmscan
 			 * will take care of the rest.
+			 * A future reference will then fault in a new zero
+			 * page. When userfaultfd is active, we must not drop
+			 * this page though, as its main user (postcopy
+			 * migration) will not expect userfaults on already
+			 * copied pages.
 			 */
 			dec_mm_counter(mm, mm_counter(page));
 			/* We have to invalidate as we cleared the pte */