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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Hansen
	<dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,npiggin@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org,willy@infradead.org,yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com,linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] mm/migrate: annotate possible unnecessary xas_load()
Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 14:05:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200501210520.6B29706C@viggo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200501210516.DFAFF456@viggo.jf.intel.com>


From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>

The xas_load() in question also originated in "e286781: mm:
speculative page references" as a radix_tree_deref_slot(), the
only one in the tree at the time.

I'm thoroughly confused why it is needed, though.  A page's
slot in the page cache should be stabilized by lock_page()
being held.

So, first of all, add a VM_BUG_ON_ONCE() to make it totally
clear that the page is locked.

But, even if the page was truncated, we normally check:

	page_mapping(page) != mapping

to check for truncation.  This would seem to imply that we
are looking for some kind of state change that can happen
to the xarray slot for a page, but without changing
page->mapping.

I'm at a loss for that that might be.  Stick a WARN_ON_ONCE()
in there to see if we ever actually hit this.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---

 b/mm/migrate.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff -puN mm/migrate.c~remove_extra_xas_load_check mm/migrate.c
--- a/mm/migrate.c~remove_extra_xas_load_check	2020-05-01 14:00:43.377525921 -0700
+++ b/mm/migrate.c	2020-05-01 14:00:43.381525921 -0700
@@ -407,6 +407,8 @@ int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct add
 	int dirty;
 	int expected_count = expected_page_refs(mapping, page) + extra_count;
 
+	VM_WARN_ONCE(!PageLocked(page));
+
 	if (!mapping) {
 		/* Anonymous page without mapping */
 		if (page_count(page) != expected_count)
@@ -425,7 +427,13 @@ int migrate_page_move_mapping(struct add
 	newzone = page_zone(newpage);
 
 	xas_lock_irq(&xas);
+	/*
+	 * 'mapping' was established under the page lock, which
+	 * prevents the xarray slot for 'page' from being changed.
+	 * Thus, xas_load() failure here is unexpected.
+	 */
 	if (xas_load(&xas) != page) {
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
 		xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
 		return -EAGAIN;
 	}
_


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-01 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-01 21:05 [RFC][PATCH 0/2] mm: tweak page cache migration Dave Hansen
2020-05-01 21:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/2] mm/migrate: remove extra page_count() check Dave Hansen
2020-05-05 20:18   ` Yang Shi
2020-05-01 21:05 ` Dave Hansen [this message]

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