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Running certain tests with a DEBUG_VM kernel would crash within hours, on the total_mapcount BUG() in split_huge_page_to_list(), while trying to free up some memory by punching a hole in a shmem huge page: split's try_to_unmap() was unable to find all the mappings of the page (which, on a !DEBUG_VM kernel, would then keep the huge page pinned in memory). Crash dumps showed two tail pages of a shmem huge page remained mapped by pte: ptes in a non-huge-aligned vma of a gVisor process, at the end of a long unmapped range; and no page table had yet been allocated for the head of the huge page to be mapped into. Although designed to handle these odd misaligned huge-page-mapped-by-pte cases, page_vma_mapped_walk() falls short by returning false prematurely when !pmd_present or !pud_present or !p4d_present or !pgd_present: there are cases when a huge page may span the boundary, with ptes present in the next. Restructure page_vma_mapped_walk() as a loop to continue in these cases, while keeping its layout much as before. Add a step_forward() helper to advance pvmw->address across those boundaries: originally I tried to use mm's standard p?d_addr_end() macros, but hit the same crash 512 times less often: because of the way redundant levels are folded together, but folded differently in different configurations, it was just too difficult to use them correctly; and step_forward() is simpler anyway. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fedb8632-1798-de42-f39e-873551d5bc81@google.com Fixes: ace71a19cec5 ("mm: introduce page_vma_mapped_walk()") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Cc: Wang Yugui <wangyugui@e16-tech.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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.