[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "sched, numa: do not hint for NUMA balancing on VM_MIXEDMAP mappings" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    sched, numa: do not hint for NUMA balancing on VM_MIXEDMAP mappings

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From dd9aed057b68b3fcc13de54de5ea2242cbef1272 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:15:00 -0700
Subject: sched, numa: do not hint for NUMA balancing on VM_MIXEDMAP mappings

commit 8e76d4eecf7afeec9328e21cd5880e281838d0d6 upstream.

Jovi Zhangwei reported the following problem

  Below kernel vm bug can be triggered by tcpdump which mmaped a lot of pages
  with GFP_COMP flag.

  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] page:ffffea0015414000 count:66 mapcount:1 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] flags: 0x20047580004000(head)
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_order(page) && !PageTransHuge(page))
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] kernel BUG at mm/migrate.c:1661!
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

In this case it was triggered by running tcpdump but it's not necessary
reproducible on all systems.

  sudo tcpdump -i bond0.100 'tcp port 4242' -c 100000000000 -w 4242.pcap

Compound pages cannot be migrated and it was not expected that such pages
be marked for NUMA balancing.  This did not take into account that drivers
such as net/packet/af_packet.c may insert compound pages into userspace
with vm_insert_page.  This patch tells the NUMA balancing protection
scanner to skip all VM_MIXEDMAP mappings which avoids the possibility that
compound pages are marked for migration.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>
Reported-by: Jovi Zhangwei <jovi at cloudflare.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
[ kamal: backport to 3.19-stable ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index fe331fc..44cfeb3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2162,8 +2162,10 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work)
 		vma = mm->mmap;
 	}
 	for (; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
-		if (!vma_migratable(vma) || !vma_policy_mof(vma))
+		if (!vma_migratable(vma) || !vma_policy_mof(vma) ||
+			(vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP)) {
 			continue;
+		}

 		/*
 		 * Shared library pages mapped by multiple processes are not
--
1.9.1