Revert "mm: migrate: skip shared exec THP for NUMA balancing"
authorMiaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Wed, 5 May 2021 01:37:16 +0000 (18:37 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 5 May 2021 18:27:24 +0000 (11:27 -0700)
commit7ee820ee72388279a37077f418e32643a298243a
tree21ef518e9f3184aa1c3863809f239e66d5684c44
parent843e1be108b9130e5ec5a78a14f77dc237c83e1e
Revert "mm: migrate: skip shared exec THP for NUMA balancing"

This reverts commit c77c5cbafe549eb330e8909861a3e16cbda2c848.

Since commit c77c5cbafe54 ("mm: migrate: skip shared exec THP for NUMA
balancing"), the NUMA balancing would skip shared exec transhuge page.
But this enhancement is not suitable for transhuge page.  Because it's
required that page_mapcount() must be 1 due to no migration pte dance is
done here.  On the other hand, the shared exec transhuge page will leave
the migrate_misplaced_page() with pte entry untouched and page locked.
Thus pagefault for NUMA will be triggered again and deadlock occurs when
we start waiting for the page lock held by ourselves.

Yang Shi said:

 "Thanks for catching this. By relooking the code I think the other
  important reason for removing this is
  migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page() actually can't see shared exec
  file THP at all since page_lock_anon_vma_read() is called before
  and if page is not anonymous page it will just restore the PMD
  without migrating anything.
  The pages for private mapped file vma may be anonymous pages due to
  COW but they can't be THP so it won't trigger THP numa fault at all. I
  think this is why no bug was reported. I overlooked this in the first
  place."

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210325131524.48181-6-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/migrate.c