Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 3 authors, 2021-05-26

Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/page_alloc: fix counting of free pages after take off from buddy

From: Ding Hui <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-06 04:02:46
Also in: lkml

On 2021/5/6 10:49, HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) wrote:
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 04:54:59PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
quoted
On 21.04.21 04:04, Ding Hui wrote:
quoted
Recently we found there is a lot MemFree left in /proc/meminfo after
do a lot of pages soft offline.

I think it's incorrect since NR_FREE_PAGES should not contain HWPoison pages.
After take_page_off_buddy, the page is no longer belong to buddy
allocator, and will not be used any more, but we maybe missed accounting
NR_FREE_PAGES in this situation.

Signed-off-by: Ding Hui <redacted>
---
   mm/page_alloc.c | 1 +
   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index cfc72873961d..8d65b62784d8 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -8947,6 +8947,7 @@ bool take_page_off_buddy(struct page *page)
   			del_page_from_free_list(page_head, zone, page_order);
   			break_down_buddy_pages(zone, page_head, page, 0,
   						page_order, migratetype);
+			__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, -1);
   			ret = true;
   			break;
   		}
Should this use __mod_zone_freepage_state() instead?
Yes, __mod_zone_freepage_state() looks better to me.

And I think that maybe an additional __mod_zone_freepage_state() in
unpoison_memory() is necessary to cancel the decrement.  I thought of the
following, but it doesn't build because get_pfnblock_migratetype() is
available only in mm/page_alloc.c, so you might want to add a small exported
routine in mm/page_alloc.c and let it called from unpoison_memory().

   @@ -1899,8 +1899,12 @@ int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn)
           }
   
           if (!get_hwpoison_page(p, flags, 0)) {
   -               if (TestClearPageHWPoison(p))
   +               if (TestClearPageHWPoison(p)) {
   +                       int migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(p, pfn);
   +
                           num_poisoned_pages_dec();
   +                       __mod_zone_freepage_state(page_zone(p), 1, migratetype);
   +               }
                   unpoison_pr_info("Unpoison: Software-unpoisoned free page %#lx\n",
                                    pfn, &unpoison_rs);
                   return 0;
I think there is another problem:
In normal case, we keep the last refcount of the hwpoison page, so 
get_hwpoison_page should return 1. The NR_FREE_PAGES will be adjusted 
when call put_page.
At race condition, we maybe leak the page because we does not put it 
back to buddy in unpoison_memory, however the HWPoison flag, 
num_poisoned_pages, NR_FREE_PAGES is adjusted correctly.

CPU0                        CPU1

soft_offline_page
   soft_offline_free_page
     page_handle_poison
       take_page_off_buddy
       SetPageHWPoison
                             unpoison_memory
                               if (!get_hwpoison_page(p))
                                 TestClearPageHWPoison
                                   num_poisoned_pages_dec
                                 __mod_zone_freepage_state
                                 return 0
                                 /* miss put the page back to buddy */
       page_ref_inc
       num_poisoned_pages_inc

How about do nothing and return -EBUSY (so the caller can retry) if 
unpoison a zero refcount page , or return 0 like 230ac719c500 
("mm/hwpoison: don't try to unpoison containment-failed pages") does ?

   @@ -1736,11 +1736,9 @@ int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn)
     }

     if (!get_hwpoison_page(p, flags, 0)) {
   -       if (TestClearPageHWPoison(p))
   -           num_poisoned_pages_dec();
   -       unpoison_pr_info("Unpoison: Software-unpoisoned free page 
%#lx\n",
   +       unpoison_pr_info("Unpoison: Software-unpoisoned zero refcount 
page %#lx\n",
   				 pfn, &unpoison_rs);
   -       return 0;
   +       return -EBUSY;
     }

     lock_page(page);
	


-- 
Thanks,
- Ding Hui
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