From 42288fe366c4f1ce7522bc9f27d0bc2a81c55264 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:10:25 +0000 Subject: mm: mempolicy: Convert shared_policy mutex to spinlock Sasha was fuzzing with trinity and reported the following problem: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:269 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 6361, name: trinity-main 2 locks held by trinity-main/6361: #0: (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [] __do_page_fault+0x1e4/0x4f0 #1: (&(&mm->page_table_lock)->rlock){+.+...}, at: [] handle_pte_fault+0x3f7/0x6a0 Pid: 6361, comm: trinity-main Tainted: G W 3.7.0-rc2-next-20121024-sasha-00001-gd95ef01-dirty #74 Call Trace: __might_sleep+0x1c3/0x1e0 mutex_lock_nested+0x29/0x50 mpol_shared_policy_lookup+0x2e/0x90 shmem_get_policy+0x2e/0x30 get_vma_policy+0x5a/0xa0 mpol_misplaced+0x41/0x1d0 handle_pte_fault+0x465/0x6a0 This was triggered by a different version of automatic NUMA balancing but in theory the current version is vunerable to the same problem. do_numa_page -> numa_migrate_prep -> mpol_misplaced -> get_vma_policy -> shmem_get_policy It's very unlikely this will happen as shared pages are not marked pte_numa -- see the page_mapcount() check in change_pte_range() -- but it is possible. To address this, this patch restores sp->lock as originally implemented by Kosaki Motohiro. In the path where get_vma_policy() is called, it should not be calling sp_alloc() so it is not necessary to treat the PTL specially. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mempolicy.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h index 92bc9988a180..0d7df39a5885 100644 --- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h +++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ struct sp_node { struct shared_policy { struct rb_root root; - struct mutex mutex; + spinlock_t lock; }; void mpol_shared_policy_init(struct shared_policy *sp, struct mempolicy *mpol); -- cgit v1.2.3