mm: do not drop unused pages when userfaultd is running
KVM guests on s390 can notify the host of unused pages. This can result
in pte_unused callbacks to be true for KVM guest memory.
If a page is unused (checked with pte_unused) we might drop this page
instead of paging it. This can have side-effects on userfaultd, when
the page in question was already migrated:
The next access of that page will trigger a fault and a user fault
instead of faulting in a new and empty zero page. As QEMU does not
expect a userfault on an already migrated page this migration will fail.
The most straightforward solution is to ignore the pte_unused hint if a
userfault context is active for this VMA.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703171854.63981-1-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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