[mm] c4344e8035: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 101 at mm/memory.c:303 __tlb_remove_page_size+0x25/0x99

[Aneesh Kumar K.V]

kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye at intel.com> writes:

> FYI, we noticed the following commit:
>
> https://github.com/0day-ci/linux Aneesh-Kumar-K-V/mm-Use-the-correct-page-size-when-removing-the-page/20161012-013446
> commit c4344e80359420d7574b3b90fddf53311f1d24e6 ("mm: Remove the page size change check in tlb_remove_page")
>
> in testcase: boot
>
> on test machine: qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -cpu Haswell,+smep,+smap -m 360M
>
> caused below changes:
>
>
> +------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
> |                                                | eff764128d | c4344e8035 |
> +------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
> | boot_successes                                 | 59         | 0          |
> | boot_failures                                  | 0          | 43         |
> | WARNING:at_mm/memory.c:#__tlb_remove_page_size | 0          | 43         |
> | calltrace:SyS_execve                           | 0          | 43         |
> | calltrace:run_init_process                     | 0          | 21         |
> +------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
>
>
>
> [    4.096204] Write protecting the kernel text: 3148k
> [    4.096911] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1444k
> [    4.120357] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    4.121078] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 101 at mm/memory.c:303 __tlb_remove_page_size+0x25/0x99
> [    4.122380] Modules linked in:
> [    4.122788] CPU: 0 PID: 101 Comm: run-parts Not tainted 4.8.0-mm1-00315-gc4344e8 #5
> [    4.123956]  bd145dc4 b111e5e6 bd145de0 b10320dc 0000012f b10974d1 bd145e70 c4954170
> [    4.125277]  c4954170 bd145df4 b103215f 00000009 00000000 00000000 bd145e04 b10974d1
> [    4.126424]  c4954170 bd145e70 bd145e14 b10263ca bd145e70 bd47bafc bd145e40 b109767a
> [    4.127622] Call Trace:

Thanks for the report. The below change should fix this.

commit 18c929e7cf672da617dc218c6265366bf78b1644
Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 12 08:40:41 2016 +0530

    update mmu gather page size before flushing page table cache

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 26d1ba8c87e6..7e7eccb82a2b 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -526,7 +526,11 @@ void free_pgd_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 		end -= PMD_SIZE;
 	if (addr > end - 1)
 		return;
-
+	/*
+	 * We add page table cache pages with PAGE_SIZE,
+	 * (see pte_free_tlb()), flush the tlb if we need
+	 */
+	tlb_remove_check_page_size_change(tlb, PAGE_SIZE);
 	pgd = pgd_offset(tlb->mm, addr);
 	do {
 		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);