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huge tmpfs: SGP_NOALLOC to stop collapse_file() on race
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:59:12 +0000 (09:59 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 23:33:47 +0000 (09:33 +1000)
commitaa744ad9eef4c641ff214abef3e15d27d1bde7f3
treeff120e6d1f7dfde9b8104325480bd303f7b8aab3
parent231c38b26e0f1a600c57892729eb8f92da094b26
huge tmpfs: SGP_NOALLOC to stop collapse_file() on race

khugepaged's collapse_file() currently uses SGP_NOHUGE to tell
shmem_getpage() not to try allocating a huge page, in the very unlikely
event that a racing hole-punch removes the swapped or fallocated page as
soon as i_pages lock is dropped.

We want to consolidate shmem's huge decisions, removing SGP_HUGE and
SGP_NOHUGE; but cannot quite persuade ourselves that it's okay to regress
the protection in this case - Yang Shi points out that the huge page would
remain indefinitely, charged to root instead of the intended memcg.

collapse_file() should not even allocate a small page in this case: why
proceed if someone is punching a hole?  SGP_READ is almost the right flag
here, except that it optimizes away from a fallocated page, with NULL to
tell caller to fill with zeroes (like a hole); whereas collapse_file()'s
sequence relies on using a cache page.  Add SGP_NOALLOC just for this.

There are too many consecutive "if (page"s there in shmem_getpage_gfp():
group it better; and fix the outdated "bring it back from swap" comment.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1355343b-acf-4653-ef79-6aee40214ac5@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
include/linux/shmem_fs.h
mm/khugepaged.c
mm/shmem.c