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mlock: fix mlock count can not decrease in race condition
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Kefeng reported that when running the follow test, the mlock count in
meminfo will increase permanently:

 [1] testcase
 linux:~ # cat test_mlockal
 grep Mlocked /proc/meminfo
  for j in `seq 0 10`
  do
 	for i in `seq 4 15`
 	do
 		./p_mlockall >> log &
 	done
 	sleep 0.2
 done
 # wait some time to let mlock counter decrease and 5s may not enough
 sleep 5
 grep Mlocked /proc/meminfo

 linux:~ # cat p_mlockall.c
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdio.h>

 #define SPACE_LEN	4096

 int main(int argc, char ** argv)
 {
	 	int ret;
	 	void *adr = malloc(SPACE_LEN);
	 	if (!adr)
	 		return -1;

	 	ret = mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE);
	 	printf("mlcokall ret = %d\n", ret);

	 	ret = munlockall();
	 	printf("munlcokall ret = %d\n", ret);

	 	free(adr);
	 	return 0;
	 }

In __munlock_pagevec() we should decrement NR_MLOCK for each page where
we clear the PageMlocked flag.  Commit 1ebb7cc ("mm: munlock: batch
NR_MLOCK zone state updates") has introduced a bug where we don't
decrement NR_MLOCK for pages where we clear the flag, but fail to
isolate them from the lru list (e.g.  when the pages are on some other
cpu's percpu pagevec).  Since PageMlocked stays cleared, the NR_MLOCK
accounting gets permanently disrupted by this.

Fix it by counting the number of page whose PageMlock flag is cleared.

Fixes: 1ebb7cc (" mm: munlock: batch NR_MLOCK zone state updates")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Kefeng Wang <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Kefeng Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Joern Engel <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <[email protected]>
Cc: zhongjiang <[email protected]>
Cc: Hanjun Guo <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Yisheng Xie authored and torvalds committed Jun 2, 2017
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions mm/mlock.c
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Expand Up @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static void __munlock_pagevec(struct pagevec *pvec, struct zone *zone)
{
int i;
int nr = pagevec_count(pvec);
int delta_munlocked;
int delta_munlocked = -nr;
struct pagevec pvec_putback;
int pgrescued = 0;

Expand All @@ -304,6 +304,8 @@ static void __munlock_pagevec(struct pagevec *pvec, struct zone *zone)
continue;
else
__munlock_isolation_failed(page);
} else {
delta_munlocked++;
}

/*
Expand All @@ -315,7 +317,6 @@ static void __munlock_pagevec(struct pagevec *pvec, struct zone *zone)
pagevec_add(&pvec_putback, pvec->pages[i]);
pvec->pages[i] = NULL;
}
delta_munlocked = -nr + pagevec_count(&pvec_putback);
__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_MLOCK, delta_munlocked);
spin_unlock_irq(zone_lru_lock(zone));

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