[PATCH v11 00/25] mm/gup: track dma-pinned pages: FOLL_PIN

[Jan Kara]

On Sat 28-12-19 20:33:32, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 12/27/19 1:56 PM, John Hubbard wrote:
> ...
> >> It is ancient verification test (~10y) which is not an easy task to
> >> make it understandable and standalone :).
> >>
> > 
> > Is this the only test that fails, btw? No other test failures or hints of
> > problems?
> > 
> > (Also, maybe hopeless, but can *anyone* on the RDMA list provide some
> > characterization of the test, such as how many pins per page, what page
> > sizes are used? I'm still hoping to write a test to trigger something
> > close to this...)
> > 
> > I do have a couple more ideas for test runs:
> > 
> > 1. Reduce GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS to 1. That would turn the whole override of
> > page->_refcount into a no-op, and so if all is well (it may not be!) with the
> > rest of the patch, then we'd expect this problem to not reappear.
> > 
> > 2. Active /proc/vmstat *foll_pin* statistics unconditionally (just for these
> > tests, of course), so we can see if there is a get/put mismatch. However, that
> > will change the timing, and so it must be attempted independently of (1), in
> > order to see if it ends up hiding the repro.
> > 
> > I've updated this branch to implement (1), but not (2), hoping you can give
> > this one a spin?
> > 
> >     git at github.com:johnhubbard/linux.git  pin_user_pages_tracking_v11_with_diags
> > 
> > 
> 
> Also, looking ahead:
> 
> a) if the problem disappears with the latest above test, then we likely have
>    a huge page refcount overflow, and there are a couple of different ways to
>    fix it. 
> 
> b) if it still reproduces with the above, then it's some other random mistake,
>    and in that case I'd be inclined to do a sort of guided (or classic, unguided)
>    git bisect of the series. Because it could be any of several patches.
> 
>    If that's too much trouble, then I'd have to fall back to submitting a few
>    patches at a time and working my way up to the tracking patch...

It could also be that an ordinary page reference is dropped with 'unpin'
thus underflowing the page refcount...

								Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack at suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR