From: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Subject: sched, numa: do not hint for NUMA balancing on VM_MIXEDMAP mappings

Jovi Zhangwei reported the following problem

  Below kernel vm bug can be triggered by tcpdump which mmaped a lot of pages
  with GFP_COMP flag.

  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] page:ffffea0015414000 count:66 mapcount:1 mapping: 
         (null) index:0x0
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] flags: 0x20047580004000(head)
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] page dumped because: 
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_order(page) && !PageTransHuge(page))
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] kernel BUG at mm/migrate.c:1661!
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

In this case it was triggered by running tcpdump but it's not necessary
reproducible on all systems.

  sudo tcpdump -i bond0.100 'tcp port 4242' -c 100000000000 -w 4242.pcap

Compound pages cannot be migrated and it was not expected that such pages
be marked for NUMA balancing.  This did not take into account that drivers
such as net/packet/af_packet.c may insert compound pages into userspace
with vm_insert_page.  This patch tells the NUMA balancing protection
scanner to skip all VM_MIXEDMAP mappings which avoids the possibility that
compound pages are marked for migration.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Jovi Zhangwei <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 kernel/sched/fair.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN 
kernel/sched/fair.c~sched-numa-do-not-hint-for-numa-balancing-on-vm_mixedmap-mappings
 kernel/sched/fair.c
--- 
a/kernel/sched/fair.c~sched-numa-do-not-hint-for-numa-balancing-on-vm_mixedmap-mappings
+++ a/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2181,7 +2181,7 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head
        }
        for (; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
                if (!vma_migratable(vma) || !vma_policy_mof(vma) ||
-                       is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
+                       is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) || (vma->vm_flags & 
VM_MIXEDMAP)) {
                        continue;
                }
 
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