From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] secretmem: optimize page_is_secretmem()
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 13:21:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210419122156.GZ2531743@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YH1v4XVzfXC1dYND@kernel.org>
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 02:56:17PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:23:02PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > So you're calling page_is_secretmem() on a struct page without having
> > a refcount on it. That is definitely not allowed. secretmem seems to
> > be full of these kinds of races; I know this isn't the first one I've
> > seen in it. I don't think this patchset is ready for this merge window.
>
> There were races in the older version that did caching of large pages and
> those were fixed then, but this is anyway irrelevant because all that code
> was dropped in the latest respins.
>
> I don't think that the fix of the race in gup_pte_range is that significant
> to wait 3 more months because of it.
I have no particular interest in secretmem, but it seems that every time
I come across it while looking at something else, I see these kinds of
major mistakes in it. That says to me it's not ready and hasn't seen
enough review.
> > With that fixed, you'll have a head page that you can use for testing,
> > which means you don't need to test PageCompound() (because you know the
> > page isn't PageTail), you can just test PageHead().
>
> I can't say I follow you here. page_is_secretmem() is intended to be a
> generic test, so I don't see how it will get PageHead() if it is called
> from other places.
static inline bool head_is_secretmem(struct page *head)
{
if (PageHead(head))
return false;
...
}
static inline bool page_is_secretmem(struct page *page)
{
if (PageTail(page))
return false;
return head_is_secretmem(page);
}
(yes, calling it head is a misnomer, because it's not necessarily a head,
it might be a base page, but until we have a name for pages which might
be a head page or a base page, it'll have to do ...)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-19 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-19 8:42 [PATCH] secretmem: optimize page_is_secretmem() Mike Rapoport
2021-04-19 9:15 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-19 9:36 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-19 9:38 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-19 9:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-19 10:14 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-19 10:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-19 11:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-19 11:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-19 11:56 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-04-19 12:21 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2021-04-19 18:24 ` Mike Rapoport
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