On 08/14/2018 01:48 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 11:21:41PM +0000, Mike Kravetz wrote: >> On 08/13/2018 03:58 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 08:41:08PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote: >>>> I am not %100 sure on the required flushing, so suggestions would be >>>> appreciated. This also should go to stable. It has been around for >>>> a long time so still looking for an appropriate 'fixes:'. >>> >>> I believe we need flushing. And huge_pmd_unshare() usage in >>> __unmap_hugepage_range() looks suspicious: I don't see how we flush TLB in >>> that case. >> >> Thanks Kirill, >> >> __unmap_hugepage_range() has two callers: >> 1) unmap_hugepage_range, which wraps the call with tlb_gather_mmu and >> tlb_finish_mmu on the range. IIUC, this should cause an appropriate >> TLB flush. >> 2) __unmap_hugepage_range_final via unmap_single_vma. unmap_single_vma >> has three callers: >> - unmap_vmas which assumes the caller will flush the whole range after >> return. >> - zap_page_range wraps the call with tlb_gather_mmu/tlb_finish_mmu >> - zap_page_range_single wraps the call with tlb_gather_mmu/tlb_finish_mmu >> >> So, it appears we are covered. But, I could be missing something. > > My problem here is that the mapping that moved by huge_pmd_unshare() in > not accounted into mmu_gather and can be missed on tlb_finish_mmu().
Ah, I think I now see the issue you are concerned with. When huge_pmd_unshare succeeds we effectively unmap a PUD_SIZE area. The routine __unmap_hugepage_range may only have been passed a range that is a subset of PUD_SIZE. In the case I was trying to address, try_to_unmap_one() the 'range' will certainly be less than PUD_SIZE. Upon further thought, I think that even in the case of try_to_unmap_one we should flush PUD_SIZE range. My first thought would be to embed this flushing within huge_pmd_unshare itself. Perhaps, whenever huge_pmd_unshare succeeds we should do an explicit: flush_cache_range(PUD_SIZE) flush_tlb_range(PUD_SIZE) mmu_notifier_invalidate_range(PUD_SIZE) That would take some of the burden off the callers of huge_pmd_unshare. However, I am not sure if the flushing calls above play nice in all the calling environments. I'll look into it some more, but would appreciate additional comments. -- Mike Kravetz
