Migration: find correct vma in new_vma_page()

We hit the BUG_ON() in mm/rmap.c:vma_address() when trying to migrate via
mbind(MPOL_MF_MOVE) a non-anon region that spans multiple vmas.  For
anon-regions, we just fail to migrate any pages beyond the 1st vma in the
range.

This occurs because do_mbind() collects a list of pages to migrate by
calling check_range().  check_range() walks the task's mm, spanning vmas as
necessary, to collect the migratable pages into a list.  Then, do_mbind()
calls migrate_pages() passing the list of pages, a function to allocate new
pages based on vma policy [new_vma_page()], and a pointer to the first vma
of the range.

For each page in the list, new_vma_page() calls page_address_in_vma()
passing the page and the vma [first in range] to obtain the address to get
for alloc_page_vma().  The page address is needed to get interleaving
policy correct.  If the pages in the list come from multiple vmas,
eventually, new_page_address() will pass that page to page_address_in_vma()
with the incorrect vma.  For !PageAnon pages, this will result in a bug
check in rmap.c:vma_address().  For anon pages, vma_address() will just
return EFAULT and fail the migration.

This patch modifies new_vma_page() to check the return value from
page_address_in_vma().  If the return value is EFAULT, new_vma_page()
searchs forward via vm_next for the vma that maps the page--i.e., that does
not return EFAULT.  This assumes that the pages in the list handed to
migrate_pages() is in address order.  This is currently case.  The patch
documents this assumption in a new comment block for new_vma_page().

If new_vma_page() cannot locate the vma mapping the page in a forward
search in the mm, it will pass a NULL vma to alloc_page_vma().  This will
result in the allocation using the task policy, if any, else system default
policy.  This situation is unlikely, but the patch documents this behavior
with a comment.

Note, this patch results in restarting from the first vma in a multi-vma
range each time new_vma_page() is called.  If this is not acceptable, we
can make the vma argument a pointer, both in new_vma_page() and it's caller
unmap_and_move() so that the value held by the loop in migrate_pages()
always passes down the last vma in which a page was found.  This will
require changes to all new_page_t functions passed to migrate_pages().  Is
this necessary?

For this patch to work, we can't bug check in vma_address() for pages
outside the argument vma.  This patch removes the BUG_ON().  All other
callers [besides new_vma_page()] already check the return status.

Tested on x86_64, 4 node NUMA platform.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index c1592a94582f..83c69f8a64c2 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -722,12 +722,29 @@ out:
 
 }
 
+/*
+ * Allocate a new page for page migration based on vma policy.
+ * Start assuming that page is mapped by vma pointed to by @private.
+ * Search forward from there, if not.  N.B., this assumes that the
+ * list of pages handed to migrate_pages()--which is how we get here--
+ * is in virtual address order.
+ */
 static struct page *new_vma_page(struct page *page, unsigned long private, int **x)
 {
         struct vm_area_struct *vma = (struct vm_area_struct *)private;
+        unsigned long uninitialized_var(address);
 
-        return alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma,
-                                        page_address_in_vma(page, vma));
+        while (vma) {
+                address = page_address_in_vma(page, vma);
+                if (address != -EFAULT)
+                        break;
+                vma = vma->vm_next;
+        }
+
+        /*
+         * if !vma, alloc_page_vma() will use task or system default policy
+         */
+        return alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma, address);
 }
 #else