Re: [BISECTED] Linux 3.12.7 introduces page map handling regression

From: Elena Ufimtseva
Date: Thu Jan 23 2014 - 11:23:47 EST


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Steven Noonan <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 03:18:50PM -0500, Elena Ufimtseva wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Daniel Borkmann <borkmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On 01/22/2014 08:29 AM, Steven Noonan wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:02:15AM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:20:45PM -0800, Steven Noonan wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 06:47:07PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> >>>>> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Adding extra folks to the party.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Odds are this also shows up in 3.13, right?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Reproduced using 3.13 on the PV guest:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> [ 368.756763] BUG: Bad page map in process mp
>> >>>> pte:80000004a67c6165 pmd:e9b706067
>> >>>> [ 368.756777] page:ffffea001299f180 count:0 mapcount:-1
>> >>>> mapping: (null) index:0x0
>> >>>> [ 368.756781] page flags: 0x2fffff80000014(referenced|dirty)
>> >>>> [ 368.756786] addr:00007fd1388b7000 vm_flags:00100071
>> >>>> anon_vma:ffff880e9ba15f80 mapping: (null) index:7fd1388b7
>> >>>> [ 368.756792] CPU: 29 PID: 618 Comm: mp Not tainted 3.13.0-ec2
>> >>>> #1
>> >>>> [ 368.756795] ffff880e9b718958 ffff880e9eaf3cc0
>> >>>> ffffffff814d8748 00007fd1388b7000
>> >>>> [ 368.756803] ffff880e9eaf3d08 ffffffff8116d289
>> >>>> 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>> >>>> [ 368.756809] ffff880e9b7065b8 ffffea001299f180
>> >>>> 00007fd1388b8000 ffff880e9eaf3e30
>> >>>> [ 368.756815] Call Trace:
>> >>>> [ 368.756825] [<ffffffff814d8748>] dump_stack+0x45/0x56
>> >>>> [ 368.756833] [<ffffffff8116d289>] print_bad_pte+0x229/0x250
>> >>>> [ 368.756837] [<ffffffff8116eae3>]
>> >>>> unmap_single_vma+0x583/0x890
>> >>>> [ 368.756842] [<ffffffff8116feb5>] unmap_vmas+0x65/0x90
>> >>>> [ 368.756847] [<ffffffff81175dac>] unmap_region+0xac/0x120
>> >>>> [ 368.756852] [<ffffffff81176379>] ? vma_rb_erase+0x1c9/0x210
>> >>>> [ 368.756856] [<ffffffff81177f10>] do_munmap+0x280/0x370
>> >>>> [ 368.756860] [<ffffffff81178041>] vm_munmap+0x41/0x60
>> >>>> [ 368.756864] [<ffffffff81178f32>] SyS_munmap+0x22/0x30
>> >>>> [ 368.756869] [<ffffffff814e70ed>]
>> >>>> system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
>> >>>> [ 368.756872] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
>> >>>> [ 368.760084] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff880e9d079680
>> >>>> idx:0 val:-1
>> >>>> [ 368.760091] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff880e9d079680
>> >>>> idx:1 val:1
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Probably. I don't have a Xen PV setup to test with (and very little
>> >>>>> interest in setting one up).. And I have a suspicion that it might not
>> >>>>> be so much about Xen PV, as perhaps about the kind of hardware.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I suspect the issue has something to do with the magic _PAGE_NUMA
>> >>>>> tie-in with _PAGE_PRESENT. And then mprotect(PROT_NONE) ends up
>> >>>>> removing the _PAGE_PRESENT bit, and now the crazy numa code is
>> >>>>> confused.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> The whole _PAGE_NUMA thing is a f*cking horrible hack, and shares the
>> >>>>> bit with _PAGE_PROTNONE, which is why it then has that tie-in to
>> >>>>> _PAGE_PRESENT.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Adding Andrea to the Cc, because he's the author of that horridness.
>> >>>>> Putting Steven's test-case here as an attachement for Andrea, maybe
>> >>>>> that makes him go "Ahh, yes, silly case".
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Also added Kirill, because he was involved the last _PAGE_NUMA debacle.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Andrea, you can find the thread on lkml, but it boils down to commit
>> >>>>> 1667918b6483 (backported to 3.12.7 as 3d792d616ba4) breaking the
>> >>>>> attached test-case (but apparently only under Xen PV). There it
>> >>>>> apparently causes a "BUG: Bad page map .." error.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I *think* it is due to the fact that pmd_numa and pte_numa is getting the
>> >>> _raw_
>> >>> value of PMDs and PTEs. That is - it does not use the pvops interface
>> >>> and instead reads the values directly from the page-table. Since the
>> >>> page-table is also manipulated by the hypervisor - there are certain
>> >>> flags it also sets to do its business. It might be that it uses
>> >>> _PAGE_GLOBAL as well - and Linux picks up on that. If it was using
>> >>> pte_flags that would invoke the pvops interface.
>> >>>
>> >>> Elena, Dariof and George, you guys had been looking at this a bit deeper
>> >>> than I have. Does the Xen hypervisor use the _PAGE_GLOBAL for PV guests?

It does use _PAGE_GLOBAL for guest user pages

>> >>>
>> >>> This not-compiled-totally-bad-patch might shed some light on what I was
>> >>> thinking _could_ fix this issue - and IS NOT A FIX - JUST A HACK.
>> >>> It does not fix it for PMDs naturally (as there are no PMD paravirt ops
>> >>> for that).
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Unfortunately the Totally Bad Patch seems to make no difference. I am
>> >> still able to repro the issue:
>>
>> Steven, do you use numa=fake on boot cmd line for pv guest?
>>
>> I had similar issue on pv guest. Let me check if the fix that resolved
>> this for me will help with 3.13.
>
> Nope:
>
> # cat /proc/cmdline
> root=/dev/xvda1 ro rootwait rootfstype=ext4 nomodeset console=hvc0 earlyprintk=xen,verbose loglevel=7

>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Maybe this one is also related to this BUG here (cc'ed people investigating
>> > this one) ...
>> >
>> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/10/427
>> >
>> > ... not sure, though.
>> >
>> >
>> >> [ 346.374929] BUG: Bad page map in process mp
>> >> pte:80000004ae928065 pmd:e993f9067
>> >> [ 346.374942] page:ffffea0012ba4a00 count:0 mapcount:-1 mapping:
>> >> (null) index:0x0
>> >> [ 346.374946] page flags: 0x2fffff80000014(referenced|dirty)
>> >> [ 346.374951] addr:00007f06a9bbb000 vm_flags:00100071
>> >> anon_vma:ffff880e9939fe00 mapping: (null) index:7f06a9bbb
>> >> [ 346.374956] CPU: 29 PID: 609 Comm: mp Not tainted 3.13.0-ec2+
>> >> #1
>> >> [ 346.374960] ffff880e9cc38da8 ffff880e991a3cc0 ffffffff814d8768
>> >> 00007f06a9bbb000
>> >> [ 346.374967] ffff880e991a3d08 ffffffff8116d289 0000000000000000
>> >> 0000000000000000
>> >> [ 346.374972] ffff880e993f9dd8 ffffea0012ba4a00 00007f06a9bbc000
>> >> ffff880e991a3e30
>> >> [ 346.374979] Call Trace:
>> >> [ 346.374988] [<ffffffff814d8768>] dump_stack+0x45/0x56
>> >> [ 346.374996] [<ffffffff8116d289>] print_bad_pte+0x229/0x250
>> >> [ 346.375000] [<ffffffff8116eae3>] unmap_single_vma+0x583/0x890
>> >> [ 346.375006] [<ffffffff8116feb5>] unmap_vmas+0x65/0x90
>> >> [ 346.375011] [<ffffffff81175dbc>] unmap_region+0xac/0x120
>> >> [ 346.375016] [<ffffffff81176389>] ? vma_rb_erase+0x1c9/0x210
>> >> [ 346.375021] [<ffffffff81177f20>] do_munmap+0x280/0x370
>> >> [ 346.375025] [<ffffffff81178051>] vm_munmap+0x41/0x60
>> >> [ 346.375029] [<ffffffff81178f42>] SyS_munmap+0x22/0x30
>> >> [ 346.375034] [<ffffffff814e712d>]
>> >> system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
>> >> [ 346.375037] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
>> >> [ 346.380082] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff880e9d22bc00
>> >> idx:0 val:-1
>> >> [ 346.380088] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff880e9d22bc00
>> >> idx:1 val:1
>> >>
>> >> This dump doesn't look dramatically different, either.
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> The other question is - how is AutoNUMA running when it is not enabled?
>> >>> Shouldn't those _PAGE_NUMA ops be nops when AutoNUMA hasn't even been
>> >>> turned on?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Well, NUMA_BALANCING is enabled in the kernel config[1], but I presume you
>> >> mean not enabled at runtime?
>> >>
>> >> [1]
>> >> http://git.uplinklabs.net/snoonan/projects/archlinux/ec2/ec2-packages.git/tree/linux-ec2/config.x86_64
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Elena

I was able to reproduce this consistently, also with the latest mm
patches from yesterday.
Can you please try this:

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
index ce563be..76dcf96 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ void xen_ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct mm_struct
*mm, unsigned long addr,
/* Assume pteval_t is equivalent to all the other *val_t types. */
static pteval_t pte_mfn_to_pfn(pteval_t val)
{
- if (val & _PAGE_PRESENT) {
+ if ((val & _PAGE_PRESENT) || ((val &
(_PAGE_NUMA|_PAGE_PRESENT)) == _PAGE_NUMA)) {
unsigned long mfn = (val & PTE_PFN_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
unsigned long pfn = mfn_to_pfn(mfn);

@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static pteval_t pte_mfn_to_pfn(pteval_t val)

static pteval_t pte_pfn_to_mfn(pteval_t val)
{
- if (val & _PAGE_PRESENT) {
+ if ((val & _PAGE_PRESENT) || ((val &
(_PAGE_NUMA|_PAGE_PRESENT)) == _PAGE_NUMA)) {
unsigned long pfn = (val & PTE_PFN_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
pteval_t flags = val & PTE_FLAGS_MASK;
unsigned long mfn;
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