From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>,
"Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@mellanox.com>,
"Logan Gunthorpe" <logang@deltatee.com>,
"Ira Weiny" <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
"Matthew Wilcox" <willy@infradead.org>,
"Mel Gorman" <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
"Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>,
"Andrea Arcangeli" <aarcange@redhat.com>,
"Mike Kravetz" <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/hmm: fix ZONE_DEVICE anon page mapping reuse
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 11:38:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190722093822.GF29538@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190719192955.30462-3-rcampbell@nvidia.com>
> + /*
> + * When a device_private page is freed, the page->mapping field
> + * may still contain a (stale) mapping value. For example, the
> + * lower bits of page->mapping may still identify the page as
> + * an anonymous page. Ultimately, this entire field is just
> + * stale and wrong, and it will cause errors if not cleared.
> + * One example is:
> + *
> + * migrate_vma_pages()
> + * migrate_vma_insert_page()
> + * page_add_new_anon_rmap()
> + * __page_set_anon_rmap()
> + * ...checks page->mapping, via PageAnon(page) call,
> + * and incorrectly concludes that the page is an
> + * anonymous page. Therefore, it incorrectly,
> + * silently fails to set up the new anon rmap.
> + *
> + * For other types of ZONE_DEVICE pages, migration is either
> + * handled differently or not done at all, so there is no need
> + * to clear page->mapping.
> + */
> + if (is_device_private_page(page))
> + page->mapping = NULL;
> +
Thanks, especially for the long comment.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-22 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-19 19:29 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm/hmm: fixes for device private page migration Ralph Campbell
2019-07-19 19:29 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: document zone device struct page field usage Ralph Campbell
2019-07-19 21:43 ` John Hubbard
2019-07-21 15:05 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-07-21 16:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-22 5:13 ` Ira Weiny
2019-07-22 11:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-23 21:25 ` Ralph Campbell
2019-07-23 21:39 ` Weiny, Ira
2019-07-22 9:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-07-22 9:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-07-19 19:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/hmm: fix ZONE_DEVICE anon page mapping reuse Ralph Campbell
2019-07-19 21:45 ` John Hubbard
2019-07-22 9:38 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-07-19 19:29 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mm/hmm: Fix bad subpage pointer in try_to_unmap_one Ralph Campbell
2019-07-20 12:23 ` Sasha Levin
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