[PATCH v3 (re-send)] xen/gntdev: Use mempolicy instead of VM_IO flag to avoid NUMA balancing

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Thu Nov 17 2016 - 15:08:25 EST


Commit 9c17d96500f7 ("xen/gntdev: Grant maps should not be subject to
NUMA balancing") set VM_IO flag to prevent grant maps from being
subjected to NUMA balancing.

It was discovered recently that this flag causes get_user_pages() to
always fail with -EFAULT.

check_vma_flags
__get_user_pages
__get_user_pages_locked
__get_user_pages_unlocked
get_user_pages_fast
iov_iter_get_pages
dio_refill_pages
do_direct_IO
do_blockdev_direct_IO
do_blockdev_direct_IO
ext4_direct_IO_read
generic_file_read_iter
aio_run_iocb

(which can happen if guest's vdisk has direct-io-safe option).

To avoid this don't use vm_flags. Instead, use mempolicy that prohibits
page migration (i.e. clear MPOL_F_MOF|MPOL_F_MORON) and make sure we
don't consult task's policy (which may include those flags) if vma
doesn't have one.

Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---

Mis-spelled David's address.

Changes in v3:
* Don't use __mpol_dup() and get_task_policy() which are not exported
for use by drivers. Add vm_operations_struct.get_policy().
* Copy to stable


drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
index bb95212..632edd4 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/mempolicy.h>

#include <xen/xen.h>
#include <xen/grant_table.h>
@@ -433,10 +434,28 @@ static void gntdev_vma_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
return map->pages[(addr - map->pages_vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT];
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+/*
+ * We have this op to make sure callers (such as vma_policy_mof()) don't
+ * check current task's policy which may include migrate flags (MPOL_F_MOF
+ * or MPOL_F_MORON)
+ */
+static struct mempolicy *gntdev_vma_get_policy(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr)
+{
+ if (mpol_needs_cond_ref(vma->vm_policy))
+ mpol_get(vma->vm_policy);
+ return vma->vm_policy;
+}
+#endif
+
static const struct vm_operations_struct gntdev_vmops = {
.open = gntdev_vma_open,
.close = gntdev_vma_close,
.find_special_page = gntdev_vma_find_special_page,
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+ .get_policy = gntdev_vma_get_policy,
+#endif
};

/* ------------------------------------------------------------------ */
@@ -1007,7 +1026,13 @@ static int gntdev_mmap(struct file *flip, struct vm_area_struct *vma)

vma->vm_ops = &gntdev_vmops;

- vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP | VM_IO;
+ vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+ /* Prevent NUMA balancing */
+ if (vma->vm_policy)
+ vma->vm_policy->flags &= ~(MPOL_F_MOF | MPOL_F_MORON);
+#endif

if (use_ptemod)
vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTCOPY;
--
1.7.1