On 27/03/2018 23:30, David Rientjes wrote:

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Laurent Dufour wrote:

quoted

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index faf85699f1a1..5898255d0aeb 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c

@@ -558,6 +558,10 @@ void __vma_link_rb(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	else
 		mm->highest_vm_end = vm_end_gap(vma);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
+	seqcount_init(&vma->vm_sequence);
+#endif
+
 	/*
 	 * vma->vm_prev wasn't known when we followed the rbtree to find the
 	 * correct insertion point for that vma. As a result, we could not

@@ -692,6 +696,30 @@ int __vma_adjust(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
 	long adjust_next = 0;
 	int remove_next = 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * Why using vm_raw_write*() functions here to avoid lockdep's warning ?
+	 *
+	 * Locked is complaining about a theoretical lock dependency, involving
+	 * 3 locks:
+	 *   mapping->i_mmap_rwsem --> vma->vm_sequence --> fs_reclaim
+	 *
+	 * Here are the major path leading to this dependency :
+	 *  1. __vma_adjust() mmap_sem  -> vm_sequence -> i_mmap_rwsem
+	 *  2. move_vmap() mmap_sem -> vm_sequence -> fs_reclaim
+	 *  3. __alloc_pages_nodemask() fs_reclaim -> i_mmap_rwsem
+	 *  4. unmap_mapping_range() i_mmap_rwsem -> vm_sequence
+	 *
+	 * So there is no way to solve this easily, especially because in
+	 * unmap_mapping_range() the i_mmap_rwsem is grab while the impacted
+	 * VMAs are not yet known.
+	 * However, the way the vm_seq is used is guarantying that we will
+	 * never block on it since we just check for its value and never wait
+	 * for it to move, see vma_has_changed() and handle_speculative_fault().
+	 */
+	vm_raw_write_begin(vma);
+	if (next)
+		vm_raw_write_begin(next);
+
 	if (next && !insert) {
 		struct vm_area_struct *exporter = NULL, *importer = NULL;
 

Eek, what about later on:

		/*
		 * Easily overlooked: when mprotect shifts the boundary,
		 * make sure the expanding vma has anon_vma set if the
		 * shrinking vma had, to cover any anon pages imported.
		 */
		if (exporter && exporter->anon_vma && !importer->anon_vma) {
			int error;

			importer->anon_vma = exporter->anon_vma;
			error = anon_vma_clone(importer, exporter);
			if (error)
				return error;
		}

This needs

if (error) {
	if (next && next != vma)
		vm_raw_write_end(next);
	vm_raw_write_end(vma);
	return error;
}

Nice catch !

Thanks,
Laurent.