[PATCH] mm/khugepaged: Convert VM_BUG_ON() to collapse fail

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Thu Mar 15 2018 - 11:24:05 EST


khugepaged is not yet able to convert PTE-mapped huge pages back to PMD
mapped. We do not collapse such pages. See check khugepaged_scan_pmd().

But if between khugepaged_scan_pmd() and __collapse_huge_page_isolate()
somebody managed to instantiate THP in the range and then split the PMD
back to PTEs we would have a problem -- VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageCompound(page))
will get triggered.

It's possible since we drop mmap_sem during collapse to re-take for
write.

Replace the VM_BUG_ON() with graceful collapse fail.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: b1caa957ae6d ("khugepaged: ignore pmd tables with THP mapped with ptes")
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index b7e2268dfc9a..c15da1ea7e63 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -530,7 +530,12 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
goto out;
}

- VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageCompound(page), page);
+ /* TODO: teach khugepaged to collapse THP mapped with pte */
+ if (PageCompound(page)) {
+ result = SCAN_PAGE_COMPOUND;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageAnon(page), page);

/*
--
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