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mm: Close races between THP migration and PMD numa clearing
THP migration uses the page lock to guard against parallel allocations but there are cases like this still open Task A Task B --------------------- --------------------- do_huge_pmd_numa_page do_huge_pmd_numa_page lock_page mpol_misplaced == -1 unlock_page goto clear_pmdnuma lock_page mpol_misplaced == 2 migrate_misplaced_transhuge pmd = pmd_mknonnuma set_pmd_at During hours of testing, one crashed with weird errors and while I have no direct evidence, I suspect something like the race above happened. This patch extends the page lock to being held until the pmd_numa is cleared to prevent migration starting in parallel while the pmd_numa is being cleared. It also flushes the old pmd entry and orders pagetable insertion before rmap insertion. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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