Re: [PATCH] mm: fix missing wake-up event for FSDAX pages

From: Muchun Song
Date: Mon Jul 04 2022 - 06:56:39 EST


On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 11:38:16AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 03:40:54PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > FSDAX page refcounts are 1-based, rather than 0-based: if refcount is
> > 1, then the page is freed. The FSDAX pages can be pinned through GUP,
> > then they will be unpinned via unpin_user_page() using a folio variant
> > to put the page, however, folio variants did not consider this special
> > case, the result will be to miss a wakeup event (like the user of
> > __fuse_dax_break_layouts()).
>
> Argh, no. The 1-based refcounts are a blight on the entire kernel.
> They need to go away, not be pushed into folios as well. I think

I would be happy if this could go away.

> we're close to having that fixed, but until then, this should do
> the trick?
>

The following fix looks good to me since it lowers the overhead as
much as possible

Thanks.

> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index cc98ab012a9b..4cef5e0f78b6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -1129,18 +1129,18 @@ static inline bool is_zone_movable_page(const struct page *page)
> #if defined(CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE) && defined(CONFIG_FS_DAX)
> DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(devmap_managed_key);
>
> -bool __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page);
> -static inline bool put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
> +bool __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page, int refs);
> +static inline bool put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page, int refs)
> {
> if (!static_branch_unlikely(&devmap_managed_key))
> return false;
> if (!is_zone_device_page(page))
> return false;
> - return __put_devmap_managed_page(page);
> + return __put_devmap_managed_page(page, refs);
> }
>
> #else /* CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE && CONFIG_FS_DAX */
> -static inline bool put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
> +static inline bool put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page, int refs)
> {
> return false;
> }
> @@ -1246,7 +1246,7 @@ static inline void put_page(struct page *page)
> * For some devmap managed pages we need to catch refcount transition
> * from 2 to 1:
> */
> - if (put_devmap_managed_page(&folio->page))
> + if (put_devmap_managed_page(&folio->page, 1))
> return;
> folio_put(folio);
> }
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index d1132b39aa8f..28df02121c78 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ static inline struct folio *try_get_folio(struct page *page, int refs)
> * belongs to this folio.
> */
> if (unlikely(page_folio(page) != folio)) {
> - folio_put_refs(folio, refs);
> + if (!put_devmap_managed_page(&folio->page, refs))
> + folio_put_refs(folio, refs);
> goto retry;
> }
>
> @@ -177,6 +178,8 @@ static void gup_put_folio(struct folio *folio, int refs, unsigned int flags)
> refs *= GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS;
> }
>
> + if (put_devmap_managed_page(&folio->page, refs))
> + return;
> folio_put_refs(folio, refs);
> }
>
> diff --git a/mm/memremap.c b/mm/memremap.c
> index b870a659eee6..b25e40e3a11e 100644
> --- a/mm/memremap.c
> +++ b/mm/memremap.c
> @@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ void free_zone_device_page(struct page *page)
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX
> -bool __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
> +bool __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page, int refs)
> {
> if (page->pgmap->type != MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX)
> return false;
> @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ bool __put_devmap_managed_page(struct page *page)
> * refcount is 1, then the page is free and the refcount is
> * stable because nobody holds a reference on the page.
> */
> - if (page_ref_dec_return(page) == 1)
> + if (page_ref_sub_return(page, refs) == 1)
> wake_up_var(&page->_refcount);
> return true;
> }
> diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
> index c6194cfa2af6..94e42a9bab92 100644
> --- a/mm/swap.c
> +++ b/mm/swap.c
> @@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr)
> unlock_page_lruvec_irqrestore(lruvec, flags);
> lruvec = NULL;
> }
> - if (put_devmap_managed_page(&folio->page))
> + if (put_devmap_managed_page(&folio->page, 1))
> continue;
> if (folio_put_testzero(folio))
> free_zone_device_page(&folio->page);
>