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SubjectRe: [PATCH -alternative] mm: hugetlbfs: Close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables V2 (resend)
On 07/26/2012 02:37 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 07/23/2012 12:04 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
>> I spent hours trying to dream up a better patch, trying various
>> approaches. I think I have a nice one now, what do you think? And
>> more importantly, does it work? I have not tried to test it at all,
>> that I'm hoping to leave to you, I'm sure you'll attack it with gusto!
>>
>> If you like it, please take it over and add your comments and signoff
>> and send it in. The second part won't come up in your testing, and
>> could
>> be made a separate patch if you prefer: it's a related point that struck
>> me while I was playing with a different approach.
>>
>> I'm sorely tempted to leave a dangerous pair of eyes off the Cc,
>> but that too would be unfair.
>>
>> Subject-to-your-testing-
>> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
>
> This patch looks good to me.
>
> Larry, does Hugh's patch survive your testing?
>
>
Like I said earlier, no. However, I finally set up a reproducer that
only takes a few seconds
on a large system and this totally fixes the problem:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index c36febb..cc023b8 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2151,7 +2151,7 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst,
struct mm_struct *src,
goto nomem;

/* If the pagetables are shared don't copy or take
references */
- if (dst_pte == src_pte)
+ if (*(unsigned long *)dst_pte == *(unsigned long *)src_pte)
continue;

spin_lock(&dst->page_table_lock);
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When we compare what the src_pte & dst_pte point to instead of their
addresses everything works,
I suspect there is a missing memory barrier somewhere ???

Larry



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