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MADV_COLLAPSE acts on one hugepage-aligned/sized region at a time, until
it has collapsed all eligible memory contained within the bounds supplied
by the user.
At the top of each hugepage iteration we (re)lock mmap_lock and
(re)validate the VMA for eligibility and update variables that might have
changed while mmap_lock was dropped. One thing that might occur is that
the VMA could be resized, and as such, we refetch vma->vm_end to make sure
we don't collapse past the end of the VMA's new end.
However, it's possible that when refetching vma->vm_end that we expand the
region acted on by MADV_COLLAPSE if vma->vm_end is greater than size+len
supplied by the user.
The consequence here is that we may attempt to collapse more memory than
requested, possibly yielding either "too much success" or "false failure"
user-visible results. An example of the former is if we MADV_COLLAPSE the
first 4MiB of a 2TiB mmap()'d file, the incorrect refetch would cause the
operation to block for much longer than anticipated as we attempt to
collapse the entire TiB region. An example of the latter is that applying
MADV_COLLPSE to a 4MiB file mapped to the start of a 6MiB VMA will
successfully collapse the first 4MiB, then incorrectly attempt to collapse
the last hugepage-aligned/sized region -- fail (since readahead/page cache
lookup will fail) -- and report a failure to the user.
I don't believe there is a kernel stability concern here as we always
(re)validate the VMA / region accordingly. Also as Hugh mentions, the
user-visible effects are: we try to collapse more memory than requested
by the user, and/or failing an operation that should have otherwise
succeeded. An example is trying to collapse a 4MiB file contained
within a 12MiB VMA.
Don't expand the acted-on region when refetching vma->vm_end.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221224082035.3197140-1-zokeefe@google.com
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Linux kernel
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