user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/swap.h, branch v6.8.12

mm/swap: fix race when skipping swapcache

2024-02-20T22:20:48Z

When skipping swapcache for SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO, if two or more threads swapin the same entry at the same time, they get different pages (A, B). Before one thread (T0) finishes the swapin and installs page (A) to the PTE, another thread (T1) could finish swapin of page (B), swap_free the entry, then swap out the possibly modified page reusing the same entry. It breaks the pte_same check in (T0) because PTE value is unchanged, causing ABA problem. Thread (T0) will install a stalled page (A) into the PTE and cause data corruption. One possible callstack is like this: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- do_swap_page() do_swap_page() with same entry swap_read_folio() <- read to page A swap_read_folio() <- read to page B ... set_pte_at() swap_free() <- entry is free pte_same() <- Check pass, PTE seems unchanged, but page A is stalled! swap_free() <- page B content lost! set_pte_at() <- staled page A installed! And besides, for ZRAM, swap_free() allows the swap device to discard the entry content, so even if page (B) is not modified, if swap_read_folio() on CPU0 happens later than swap_free() on CPU1, it may also cause data loss. To fix this, reuse swapcache_prepare which will pin the swap entry using the cache flag, and allow only one thread to swap it in, also prevent any parallel code from putting the entry in the cache. Release the pin after PT unlocked. Racers just loop and wait since it's a rare and very short event. A schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1) call is added to avoid repeated page faults wasting too much CPU, causing livelock or adding too much noise to perf statistics. A similar livelock issue was described in commit 029c4628b2eb ("mm: swap: get rid of livelock in swapin readahead") Reproducer: This race issue can be triggered easily using a well constructed reproducer and patched brd (with a delay in read path) [1]: With latest 6.8 mainline, race caused data loss can be observed easily: $ gcc -g -lpthread test-thread-swap-race.c && ./a.out Polulating 32MB of memory region... Keep swapping out... Starting round 0... Spawning 65536 workers... 32746 workers spawned, wait for done... Round 0: Error on 0x5aa00, expected 32746, got 32743, 3 data loss! Round 0: Error on 0x395200, expected 32746, got 32743, 3 data loss! Round 0: Error on 0x3fd000, expected 32746, got 32737, 9 data loss! Round 0 Failed, 15 data loss! This reproducer spawns multiple threads sharing the same memory region using a small swap device. Every two threads updates mapped pages one by one in opposite direction trying to create a race, with one dedicated thread keep swapping out the data out using madvise. The reproducer created a reproduce rate of about once every 5 minutes, so the race should be totally possible in production. After this patch, I ran the reproducer for over a few hundred rounds and no data loss observed. Performance overhead is minimal, microbenchmark swapin 10G from 32G zram: Before: 10934698 us After: 11157121 us Cached: 13155355 us (Dropping SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO flag) [kasong@tencent.com: v4] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240219082040.7495-1-ryncsn@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240206182559.32264-1-ryncsn@gmail.com Fixes: 0bcac06f27d7 ("mm, swap: skip swapcache for swapin of synchronous device") Reported-by: "Huang, Ying" Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87bk92gqpx.fsf_-_@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com/ Link: https://github.com/ryncsn/emm-test-project/tree/master/swap-stress-race [1] Signed-off-by: Kairui Song Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" Acked-by: Yu Zhao Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Chris Li Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Yosry Ahmed Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Cc: SeongJae Park Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: remove page_swap_info()

2023-12-29T19:58:32Z

It's more efficient to get the swap_info_struct by calling swp_swap_info() directly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213215842.671461-12-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: convert swap_page_sector() to swap_folio_sector()

2023-12-29T19:58:31Z

All callers have a folio, so pass it in. Saves a couple of calls to compound_head(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213215842.671461-10-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: remove page_add_new_anon_rmap and lru_cache_add_inactive_or_unevictable

2023-12-29T19:58:27Z

All callers have now been converted to folio_add_new_anon_rmap() and folio_add_lru_vma() so we can remove the wrapper. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231211162214.2146080-10-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/swap: Convert to use bdev_open_by_dev()

2023-10-28T11:29:19Z

Convert swapping code to use bdev_open_by_dev() and pass the handle around. CC: linux-mm@kvack.org CC: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927093442.25915-18-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry()

2023-08-24T23:20:28Z

Let's simply work on the folio directly and remove the helpers. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230821160849.531668-4-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox Reviewed-by: Chris Li Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio

2023-08-24T23:20:28Z

Let's stop working on the private field and use an explicit swap field. We have to move the swp_entry_t typedef. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230821160849.531668-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Chris Li Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP

2023-08-24T23:20:28Z

Patch series "mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups". This series stops using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP, replaces folio->private by folio->swap for swapcache folios, and starts using "new_folio" for tail pages that we are splitting to remove the usage of page->private for swapcache handling completely. This patch (of 4): Let's stop using page->private on tail pages, making it possible to just unconditionally reuse that field in the tail pages of large folios. The remaining usage of the private field for THP_SWAP is in the THP splitting code (mm/huge_memory.c), that we'll handle separately later. Update the THP_SWAP documentation and sanity checks in mm_types.h and __split_huge_page_tail(). [david@redhat.com: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6f0a82a3-6948-20d9-580b-be1dbf415701@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230821160849.531668-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230821160849.531668-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Catalin Marinas [arm64] Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: kill frontswap

2023-08-21T20:37:26Z

The only user of frontswap is zswap, and has been for a long time. Have swap call into zswap directly and remove the indirection. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: remove obsolete comment, per Yosry] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230719142832.GA932528@cmpxchg.org [fengwei.yin@intel.com: don't warn if none swapcache folio is passed to zswap_load] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230810095652.3905184-1-fengwei.yin@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230717160227.GA867137@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Acked-by: Nhat Pham Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Vitaly Wool Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: remove check_move_unevictable_pages()

2023-06-23T23:59:29Z

All callers have now been converted to call check_move_unevictable_folios(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230621164557.3510324-7-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton