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[3.13,155/163] mm: numa: Do not mark PTEs pte_numa when splitting huge pages

Message ID 1412888588-26755-156-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
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Kamal Mostafa Oct. 9, 2014, 9:03 p.m. UTC 
3.13.11.9 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

commit abc40bd2eeb77eb7c2effcaf63154aad929a1d5f upstream.

This patch reverts 1ba6e0b50b ("mm: numa: split_huge_page: transfer the
NUMA type from the pmd to the pte"). If a huge page is being split due
a protection change and the tail will be in a PROT_NONE vma then NUMA
hinting PTEs are temporarily created in the protected VMA.

 VM_RW|VM_PROTNONE
|-----------------|
      ^
      split here

In the specific case above, it should get fixed up by change_pte_range()
but there is a window of opportunity for weirdness to happen. Similarly,
if a huge page is shrunk and split during a protection update but before
pmd_numa is cleared then a pte_numa can be left behind.

Instead of adding complexity trying to deal with the case, this patch
will not mark PTEs NUMA when splitting a huge page. NUMA hinting faults
will not be triggered which is marginal in comparison to the complexity
in dealing with the corner cases during THP split.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index a2256e0..64a7f9c 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1823,6 +1823,11 @@  static int __split_huge_page_map(struct page *page,
 		for (i = 0; i < HPAGE_PMD_NR; i++, haddr += PAGE_SIZE) {
 			pte_t *pte, entry;
 			BUG_ON(PageCompound(page+i));
+			/*
+			 * Note that pmd_numa is not transferred deliberately
+			 * to avoid any possibility that pte_numa leaks to
+			 * a PROT_NONE VMA by accident.
+			 */
 			entry = mk_pte(page + i, vma->vm_page_prot);
 			entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
 			if (!pmd_write(*pmd))
@@ -1831,8 +1836,6 @@  static int __split_huge_page_map(struct page *page,
 				BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page) != 1);
 			if (!pmd_young(*pmd))
 				entry = pte_mkold(entry);
-			if (pmd_numa(*pmd))
-				entry = pte_mknuma(entry);
 			pte = pte_offset_map(&_pmd, haddr);
 			BUG_ON(!pte_none(*pte));
 			set_pte_at(mm, haddr, pte, entry);