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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: hugetlbfs: Close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables v2
On 07/20/2012 09:49 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> +retry:
> mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
> vma_prio_tree_foreach(svma,&iter,&mapping->i_mmap, idx, idx) {
> if (svma == vma)
> continue;
> + if (svma->vm_mm == vma->vm_mm)
> + continue;
> +
> + /*
> + * The target mm could be in the process of tearing down
> + * its page tables and the i_mmap_mutex on its own is
> + * not sufficient. To prevent races against teardown and
> + * pagetable updates, we acquire the mmap_sem and pagetable
> + * lock of the remote address space. down_read_trylock()
> + * is necessary as the other process could also be trying
> + * to share pagetables with the current mm. In the fork
> + * case, we are already both mm's so check for that
> + */
> + if (locked_mm != svma->vm_mm) {
> + if (!down_read_trylock(&svma->vm_mm->mmap_sem)) {
> + mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
> + goto retry;
> + }
> + smmap_sem =&svma->vm_mm->mmap_sem;
> + }
> +
> + spage_table_lock =&svma->vm_mm->page_table_lock;
> + spin_lock_nested(spage_table_lock, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
>
> saddr = page_table_shareable(svma, vma, addr, idx);
> if (saddr) {

Hi Mel, FYI I tried this and ran into a problem. When there are
multiple processes
in huge_pmd_share() just faulting in the same i_map they all have their
mmap_sem
down for write so the down_read_trylock(&svma->vm_mm->mmap_sem) never
succeeds. What am I missing?

Thanks, Larry



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