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Malloc libraries, like jemalloc and tcalloc, take decisions on when to
call madvise independently from the code in the main application.
This sometimes results in the application page faulting on an address,
right after the malloc library has shot down the backing memory with
MADV_DONTNEED.
Usually this is harmless, because we always have some 4kB pages sitting
around to satisfy a page fault. However, with hugetlbfs systems often
allocate only the exact number of huge pages that the application wants.
Due to TLB batching, hugetlbfs MADV_DONTNEED will free pages outside of
any lock taken on the page fault path, which can open up the following
race condition:
CPU 1 CPU 2
MADV_DONTNEED
unmap page
shoot down TLB entry
page fault
fail to allocate a huge page
killed with SIGBUS
free page
Fix that race by pulling the locking from __unmap_hugepage_final_range
into helper functions called from zap_page_range_single. This ensures
page faults stay locked out of the MADV_DONTNEED VMA until the huge pages
have actually been freed.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231006040020.3677377-4-riel@surriel.com
Fixes: 04ada095dcfc ("hugetlb: don't delete vma_lock in hugetlb MADV_DONTNEED processing")
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.