mm: stop leaking PageTables

Hugh Dickins · torvalds · commit b0b9b3df27d1 · 2017-01-07T17:49:33.000-08:00
4.10-rc loadtest (even on x86, and even without THPCache) fails with "fork: Cannot allocate memory" or some such; and /proc/meminfo shows PageTables growing. Commit 953c66c ("mm: THP page cache support for ppc64") that got merged in rc1 removed the freeing of an unused preallocated pagetable after do_fault_around() has called map_pages(). This is usually a good optimization, so that the followup doesn't have to reallocate one; but it's not sufficient to shift the freeing into alloc_set_pte(), since there are failure cases (most commonly VM_FAULT_RETRY) which never reach finish_fault(). Check and free it at the outer level in do_fault(), then we don't need to worry in alloc_set_pte(), and can restore that to how it was (I cannot find any reason to pte_free() under lock as it was doing). And fix a separate pagetable leak, or crash, introduced by the same change, that could only show up on some ppc64: why does do_set_pmd()'s failure case attempt to withdraw a pagetable when it never deposited one, at the same time overwriting (so leaking) the vmf->prealloc_pte? Residue of an earlier implementation, perhaps? Delete it. Fixes: 953c66c ("mm: THP page cache support for ppc64") Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3008,13 +3008,6 @@ static int do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page)
 	ret = 0;
 	count_vm_event(THP_FILE_MAPPED);
 out:
-	/*
-	 * If we are going to fallback to pte mapping, do a
-	 * withdraw with pmd lock held.
-	 */
-	if (arch_needs_pgtable_deposit() && ret == VM_FAULT_FALLBACK)
-		vmf->prealloc_pte = pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(vma->vm_mm,
-								vmf->pmd);
 	spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -3055,20 +3048,18 @@ int alloc_set_pte(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 
 		ret = do_set_pmd(vmf, page);
 		if (ret != VM_FAULT_FALLBACK)
-			goto fault_handled;
+			return ret;
 	}
 
 	if (!vmf->pte) {
 		ret = pte_alloc_one_map(vmf);
 		if (ret)
-			goto fault_handled;
+			return ret;
 	}
 
 	/* Re-check under ptl */
-	if (unlikely(!pte_none(*vmf->pte))) {
-		ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
-		goto fault_handled;
-	}
+	if (unlikely(!pte_none(*vmf->pte)))
+		return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
 
 	flush_icache_page(vma, page);
 	entry = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
@@ -3088,15 +3079,8 @@ int alloc_set_pte(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 
 	/* no need to invalidate: a not-present page won't be cached */
 	update_mmu_cache(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pte);
-	ret = 0;
 
-fault_handled:
-	/* preallocated pagetable is unused: free it */
-	if (vmf->prealloc_pte) {
-		pte_free(vmf->vma->vm_mm, vmf->prealloc_pte);
-		vmf->prealloc_pte = 0;
-	}
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 
@@ -3360,15 +3344,24 @@ static int do_shared_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 static int do_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
+	int ret;
 
 	/* The VMA was not fully populated on mmap() or missing VM_DONTEXPAND */
 	if (!vma->vm_ops->fault)
-		return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
-	if (!(vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE))
-		return do_read_fault(vmf);
-	if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
-		return do_cow_fault(vmf);
-	return do_shared_fault(vmf);
+		ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
+	else if (!(vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE))
+		ret = do_read_fault(vmf);
+	else if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
+		ret = do_cow_fault(vmf);
+	else
+		ret = do_shared_fault(vmf);
+
+	/* preallocated pagetable is unused: free it */
+	if (vmf->prealloc_pte) {
+		pte_free(vma->vm_mm, vmf->prealloc_pte);
+		vmf->prealloc_pte = 0;
+	}
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int numa_migrate_prep(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
