[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/mm: Check paca psize is up to date for huge mappings
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed May 28 19:27:02 EST 2014
Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> writes:
> We have a bug in our hugepage handling which exhibits as an infinite
> loop of hash faults. If the fault is being taken in the kernel it will
> typically trigger the softlockup detector, or the RCU stall detector.
>
> The bug is as follows:
>
> 1. mmap(0xa0000000, ..., MAP_FIXED | MAP_HUGE_TLB | MAP_ANONYMOUS ..)
> 2. Slice code converts the slice psize to 16M.
> 3. The code on lines 539-540 of slice.c in slice_get_unmapped_area()
> synchronises the mm->context with the paca->context. So the paca slice
> mask is updated to include the 16M slice.
> 3. Either:
> * mmap() fails because there are no huge pages available.
> * mmap() succeeds and the mapping is then munmapped.
> In both cases the slice psize remains at 16M in both the paca & mm.
> 4. mmap(0xa0000000, ..., MAP_FIXED | MAP_ANONYMOUS ..)
> 5. The slice psize is converted back to 64K. Because of the check on line 539
> of slice.c we DO NOT update the paca->context. The paca slice mask is now
> out of sync with the mm slice mask.
> 6. User/kernel accesses 0xa0000000.
> 7. The SLB miss handler slb_allocate_realmode() **uses the paca slice mask**
> to create an SLB entry and inserts it in the SLB.
> 18. With the 16M SLB entry in place the hardware does a hash lookup, no entry
> is found so a data access exception is generated.
> 19. The data access handler calls do_page_fault() -> handle_mm_fault().
> 10. __handle_mm_fault() creates a THP mapping with do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page().
> 11. The hardware retries the access, there is still nothing in the hash table
> so once again a data access exception is generated.
> 12. hash_page() calls into __hash_page_thp() and inserts a mapping in the
> hash. Although the THP mapping maps 16M the hashing is done using 64K
> as the segment page size.
> 13. hash_page() returns immediately after calling __hash_page_thp(), skipping
> over the code at line 1125. Resulting in the mismatch between the
> paca->context and mm->context not being detected.
> 14. The hardware retries the access, the hash it generates using the 16M
> SLB entry does NOT match the hash we inserted.
> 15. We take another data access and go into __hash_page_thp().
> 16. We see a valid entry in the hpte_slot_array and so we call updatepp()
> which succeeds.
> 17. Goto 14.
>
> We could fix this in two ways. The first would be to remove or modify
> the check on line 539 of slice.c.
>
> The second option is to cause the check of paca psize in hash_page() on
> line 1125 to also be done for THP pages.
>
> We prefer the latter, because the check & update of the paca psize is
> not done until we know it's necessary. It's also done only on the
> current cpu, so we don't need to IPI all other cpus.
>
> Without further rearranging the code, the simplest fix is to pull out
> the code that checks paca psize and call it in two places. Firstly for
> THP/hugetlb, and secondly for other mappings as before.
>
> Thanks to Dave Jones for trinity, which originally found this bug.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
> index d766d6e..6650699 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
> @@ -960,6 +960,22 @@ void hash_failure_debug(unsigned long ea, unsigned long access,
> trap, vsid, ssize, psize, lpsize, pte);
> }
>
> +static void check_paca_psize(unsigned long ea, struct mm_struct *mm,
> + int psize, bool user_region)
> +{
> + if (user_region) {
> + if (psize != get_paca_psize(ea)) {
> + get_paca()->context = mm->context;
> + slb_flush_and_rebolt();
> + }
> + } else if (get_paca()->vmalloc_sllp !=
> + mmu_psize_defs[mmu_vmalloc_psize].sllp) {
> + get_paca()->vmalloc_sllp =
> + mmu_psize_defs[mmu_vmalloc_psize].sllp;
> + slb_vmalloc_update();
> + }
> +}
> +
> /* Result code is:
> * 0 - handled
> * 1 - normal page fault
> @@ -1081,6 +1097,8 @@ int hash_page(unsigned long ea, unsigned long access, unsigned long trap)
> WARN_ON(1);
> }
> #endif
> + check_paca_psize(ea, mm, psize, user_region);
> +
> goto bail;
> }
>
> @@ -1121,17 +1139,8 @@ int hash_page(unsigned long ea, unsigned long access, unsigned long trap)
> #endif
> }
> }
> - if (user_region) {
> - if (psize != get_paca_psize(ea)) {
> - get_paca()->context = mm->context;
> - slb_flush_and_rebolt();
> - }
> - } else if (get_paca()->vmalloc_sllp !=
> - mmu_psize_defs[mmu_vmalloc_psize].sllp) {
> - get_paca()->vmalloc_sllp =
> - mmu_psize_defs[mmu_vmalloc_psize].sllp;
> - slb_vmalloc_update();
> - }
> +
> + check_paca_psize(ea, mm, psize, user_region);
> #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES */
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_HAS_HASH_64K
> --
> 1.9.1
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