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yaml
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r: 283017
b: refs/heads/master
c: 948f017
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  283015: e36f069
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: df0a6daa01fa3856c08f4274d4f21a8092caa480
+refs/heads/master: 948f017b093a9baac23855fcd920d3a970b71bb6

trunk/include/linux/rmap.h

@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ void anon_vma_init(void);	/* create anon_vma_cachep */
 int  anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *);
 void unlink_anon_vmas(struct vm_area_struct *);
 int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
+void anon_vma_moveto_tail(struct vm_area_struct *);
 int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
 void __anon_vma_link(struct vm_area_struct *);
 

trunk/mm/mmap.c

@@ -2322,13 +2322,16 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **vmap,
 	struct vm_area_struct *new_vma, *prev;
 	struct rb_node **rb_link, *rb_parent;
 	struct mempolicy *pol;
+	bool faulted_in_anon_vma = true;
 
 	/*
 	 * If anonymous vma has not yet been faulted, update new pgoff
 	 * to match new location, to increase its chance of merging.
 	 */
-	if (!vma->vm_file && !vma->anon_vma)
+	if (unlikely(!vma->vm_file && !vma->anon_vma)) {
 		pgoff = addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+		faulted_in_anon_vma = false;
+	}
 
 	find_vma_prepare(mm, addr, &prev, &rb_link, &rb_parent);
 	new_vma = vma_merge(mm, prev, addr, addr + len, vma->vm_flags,
@@ -2337,9 +2340,24 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **vmap,
 		/*
 		 * Source vma may have been merged into new_vma
 		 */
-		if (vma_start >= new_vma->vm_start &&
-		    vma_start < new_vma->vm_end)
+		if (unlikely(vma_start >= new_vma->vm_start &&
+			     vma_start < new_vma->vm_end)) {
+			/*
+			 * The only way we can get a vma_merge with
+			 * self during an mremap is if the vma hasn't
+			 * been faulted in yet and we were allowed to
+			 * reset the dst vma->vm_pgoff to the
+			 * destination address of the mremap to allow
+			 * the merge to happen. mremap must change the
+			 * vm_pgoff linearity between src and dst vmas
+			 * (in turn preventing a vma_merge) to be
+			 * safe. It is only safe to keep the vm_pgoff
+			 * linear if there are no pages mapped yet.
+			 */
+			VM_BUG_ON(faulted_in_anon_vma);
 			*vmap = new_vma;
+		} else
+			anon_vma_moveto_tail(new_vma);
 	} else {
 		new_vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (new_vma) {

trunk/mm/mremap.c

@@ -220,6 +220,15 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
 	moved_len = move_page_tables(vma, old_addr, new_vma, new_addr, old_len);
 	if (moved_len < old_len) {
+		/*
+		 * Before moving the page tables from the new vma to
+		 * the old vma, we need to be sure the old vma is
+		 * queued after new vma in the same_anon_vma list to
+		 * prevent SMP races with rmap_walk (that could lead
+		 * rmap_walk to miss some page table).
+		 */
+		anon_vma_moveto_tail(vma);
+
 		/*
 		 * On error, move entries back from new area to old,
 		 * which will succeed since page tables still there,

trunk/mm/rmap.c

@@ -271,6 +271,51 @@ int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src)
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Some rmap walk that needs to find all ptes/hugepmds without false
+ * negatives (like migrate and split_huge_page) running concurrent
+ * with operations that copy or move pagetables (like mremap() and
+ * fork()) to be safe. They depend on the anon_vma "same_anon_vma"
+ * list to be in a certain order: the dst_vma must be placed after the
+ * src_vma in the list. This is always guaranteed by fork() but
+ * mremap() needs to call this function to enforce it in case the
+ * dst_vma isn't newly allocated and chained with the anon_vma_clone()
+ * function but just an extension of a pre-existing vma through
+ * vma_merge.
+ *
+ * NOTE: the same_anon_vma list can still be changed by other
+ * processes while mremap runs because mremap doesn't hold the
+ * anon_vma mutex to prevent modifications to the list while it
+ * runs. All we need to enforce is that the relative order of this
+ * process vmas isn't changing (we don't care about other vmas
+ * order). Each vma corresponds to an anon_vma_chain structure so
+ * there's no risk that other processes calling anon_vma_moveto_tail()
+ * and changing the same_anon_vma list under mremap() will screw with
+ * the relative order of this process vmas in the list, because we
+ * they can't alter the order of any vma that belongs to this
+ * process. And there can't be another anon_vma_moveto_tail() running
+ * concurrently with mremap() coming from this process because we hold
+ * the mmap_sem for the whole mremap(). fork() ordering dependency
+ * also shouldn't be affected because fork() only cares that the
+ * parent vmas are placed in the list before the child vmas and
+ * anon_vma_moveto_tail() won't reorder vmas from either the fork()
+ * parent or child.
+ */
+void anon_vma_moveto_tail(struct vm_area_struct *dst)
+{
+	struct anon_vma_chain *pavc;
+	struct anon_vma *root = NULL;
+
+	list_for_each_entry_reverse(pavc, &dst->anon_vma_chain, same_vma) {
+		struct anon_vma *anon_vma = pavc->anon_vma;
+		VM_BUG_ON(pavc->vma != dst);
+		root = lock_anon_vma_root(root, anon_vma);
+		list_del(&pavc->same_anon_vma);
+		list_add_tail(&pavc->same_anon_vma, &anon_vma->head);
+	}
+	unlock_anon_vma_root(root);
+}
+
 /*
  * Attach vma to its own anon_vma, as well as to the anon_vmas that
  * the corresponding VMA in the parent process is attached to.