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Author SHA1 Message Date
Rafael Aquini 117aad1e9e mm: avoid reinserting isolated balloon pages into LRU lists
Isolated balloon pages can wrongly end up in LRU lists when
migrate_pages() finishes its round without draining all the isolated
page list.

The same issue can happen when reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() tries to
reclaim pages from an isolated page list, before migration, in the CMA
path.  Such balloon page leak opens a race window against LRU lists
shrinkers that leads us to the following kernel panic:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
  IP: [<ffffffff810c2625>] shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
  PGD 3cda2067 PUD 3d713067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 0 PID: 340 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc1-22626-g4367597 #87
  Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  RIP: shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
  RSP: 0000:ffff88003da499b8  EFLAGS: 00010286
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88003e82bd60 RCX: 00000000000657d5
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000031f RDI: ffff88003e82bd40
  RBP: ffff88003da49ab0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000081121a45
  R10: ffffffff81121a45 R11: ffff88003c4a9a28 R12: ffff88003e82bd40
  R13: ffff88003da0e800 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88003da49d58
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00000000067d9000 CR3: 000000003ace5000 CR4: 00000000000407b0
  Call Trace:
    shrink_inactive_list+0x240/0x3de
    shrink_lruvec+0x3e0/0x566
    __shrink_zone+0x94/0x178
    shrink_zone+0x3a/0x82
    balance_pgdat+0x32a/0x4c2
    kswapd+0x2f0/0x372
    kthread+0xa2/0xaa
    ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
  Code: 80 7d 8f 01 48 83 95 68 ff ff ff 00 4c 89 e7 e8 5a 7b 00 00 48 85 c0 49 89 c5 75 08 80 7d 8f 00 74 3e eb 31 48 8b 80 18 01 00 00 <48> 8b 74 0d 48 8b 78 30 be 02 00 00 00 ff d2 eb
  RIP  [<ffffffff810c2625>] shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
   RSP <ffff88003da499b8>
  CR2: 0000000000000028
  ---[ end trace 703d2451af6ffbfd ]---
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

This patch fixes the issue, by assuring the proper tests are made at
putback_movable_pages() & reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() to avoid
isolated balloon pages being wrongly reinserted in LRU lists.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify awkward comment text]
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-30 14:31:02 -07:00
Rafael Aquini 18468d93e5 mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility
Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly
the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest,
thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of
transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload.

This patch introduces a common interface to help a balloon driver on
making its page set movable to compaction, and thus allowing the system
to better leverage the compation efforts on memory defragmentation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP, s/__balloon_page_flags/page_flags_cleared/, small cleanups]
[rientjes@google.com: allow balloon compaction for any system with memory compaction enabled, which is the defconfig]
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-11 17:22:26 -08:00