On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> OK. I hope. the mapping_gfp_mask() here will have come from bdget()'s
> mapping_set_gfp_mask(&inode->i_data, GFP_USER); If anyone is accidentally
> setting __GFP_HIGHMEM on a blockdev address_space we'll cause ghastly
> explosions. Albeit ones which were well-deserved.
I've not yet looked at the patch under discussion, but this remark
prompts me... a couple of days ago I got very worried by the various
hard-wired GFP_HIGHUSER allocations in mm/migrate.c and mm/mempolicy.c,
and wondered how those would work out if someone has a blockdev mmap'ed.
I tried to test it out before sending a patch, but found no problem at
all: maybe I was too timid (fearing to corrupt my whole system), maybe
I've forgotten how that stuff works and wasn't doing the right thing
to reproduce it (I was mmap'ing /dev/sdb1 readonly, at the same time
as having it mounted as ext2 - when I forced migration to random pages,
then cp'ed /dev/zero to reuse the old pages, I was expecting ext2 to
get very upset with its metadata; mmap'ing while mounted isn't very
realistic, but my earlier sequence hadn't shown any problem either,
so I thought the cache got invalidated in between).
Here's the patch I'd suggest adding if you believe there really is
a problem there: it's far from ideal (I can imagine mapping_gfp_mask
being used to enforce other restrictions, but the __GFP_HIGHMEM issue
seems to be the only one in practice; and it would be a shame to
restrict all the architectures which have no concept of HIGHMEM).
If there's no such problem, sorry for wasting your time.
(If vma->vm_file is non-NULL, we can be sure vma->vm_file->f_mapping
is non-NULL, can't we? Some common code assumes that, some does not:
I've avoided cargo-cult safety below, but don't let me make it unsafe.)
Is there a problem with page migration to HIGHMEM, if pages were
mapped from a GFP_USER block device? I failed to demonstrate any
problem, but here's a quick fix if needed.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
--- 2.6.21-rc7/include/linux/migrate.h 2007-03-07 13:08:59.000000000 +0000
+++ linux/include/linux/migrate.h 2007-04-24 13:18:31.000000000 +0100
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
#define _LINUX_MIGRATE_H
#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/pagemap.h>
typedef struct page *new_page_t(struct page *, unsigned long private, int **);
@@ -10,6 +11,13 @@ static inline int vma_migratable(struct
{
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO|VM_HUGETLB|VM_PFNMAP|VM_RESERVED))
return 0;
+#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
+ if (vma->vm_file) {
+ struct address_space *mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
+ if (!(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & __GFP_HIGHMEM))
+ return 0;
+ }
+#endif
return 1;
}
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