From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>,
Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Allow architectures to request 'old' entries when prefaulting
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 13:03:53 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.11.2012261246450.1629@eggly.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201226204335.dikqkrkezqet6oqf@box>
On Sat, 26 Dec 2020, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 09:57:13AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Because not only does that get rid of the "if (page)" test, I think it
> > would make things a bit clearer. When I read the patch first, the
> > initial "next_page()" call confused me.
>
> Agreed. Here we go:
>
> From d12dea4abe94dbc24b7945329b191ad7d29e213a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 15:19:23 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: Cleanup faultaround and finish_fault() codepaths
>
> alloc_set_pte() has two users with different requirements: in the
> faultaround code, it called from an atomic context and PTE page table
> has to be preallocated. finish_fault() can sleep and allocate page table
> as needed.
>
> PTL locking rules are also strange, hard to follow and overkill for
> finish_fault().
>
> Let's untangle the mess. alloc_set_pte() has gone now. All locking is
> explicit.
>
> The price is some code duplication to handle huge pages in faultaround
> path, but it should be fine, having overall improvement in readability.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Hold on. I guess this one will suffer from the same bug as the previous.
I was about to report back, after satisfactory overnight testing of that
version - provided that one big little bug is fixed:
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2919,7 +2919,7 @@ static bool filemap_map_pmd(struct vm_fa
if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd) &&
PageTransHuge(page) &&
- do_set_pmd(vmf, page)) {
+ do_set_pmd(vmf, page) == 0) {
unlock_page(page);
return true;
}
(Yes, you can write that as !do_set_pmd(vmf, page), and maybe I'm odd,
but even though it's very common, I have a personal aversion to using
"!' on a positive-sounding function that returns 0 for success.)
I'll give the new patch a try now, but with that fix added in. Without it,
I got "Bad page" on compound_mapcount on file THP pages - but I run with
a BUG() inside of bad_page() so I cannot miss them: I did not look to see
what the eventual crash or page leak would look like without that.
Hugh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-26 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-09 16:39 [PATCH 0/2] Create 'old' ptes for faultaround mappings on arm64 with hardware access flag Will Deacon
2020-12-09 16:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: Allow architectures to request 'old' entries when prefaulting Will Deacon
2020-12-09 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-09 18:40 ` Will Deacon
2020-12-09 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-09 20:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-09 21:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-10 15:08 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-10 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <20201214160724.ewhjqoi32chheone@box>
2020-12-14 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-14 18:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-16 17:07 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-16 18:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-17 10:54 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-17 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-18 11:04 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-18 18:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-19 12:41 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-19 20:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-19 20:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-22 10:00 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-24 4:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-12-25 11:31 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-26 17:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-26 20:43 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-26 21:03 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2020-12-26 21:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-26 22:40 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-27 0:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-12-27 2:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-12-27 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-27 20:32 ` Damian Tometzki
2020-12-27 22:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-12-27 23:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-27 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-27 23:55 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-27 23:48 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-28 1:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-28 6:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-12-28 12:53 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-28 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-28 21:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-29 13:28 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-29 15:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-29 20:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-28 22:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-28 22:12 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-12-29 4:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-12-28 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-26 21:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-26 21:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-09 16:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm64: mm: Implement arch_wants_old_faultaround_pte() Will Deacon
2020-12-09 18:35 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 18:46 ` Will Deacon
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