From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
To: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang.kh@gmail.com>
Cc: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
mgorman@suse.de, mina86@mina86.com,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: page_isolation: check pfn validity before access
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:10:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141113131043.GA2489@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1ERfOJm0HW90Xwe9wuKij_ZXedoKPMo4HdU627XmmpuZExPg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu 13-11-14 09:46:34, Weijie Yang wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> wrote:
> > On Thu 06-11-14 16:08:02, Weijie Yang wrote:
> >> In the undo path of start_isolate_page_range(), we need to check
> >> the pfn validity before access its page, or it will trigger an
> >> addressing exception if there is hole in the zone.
> >
> > This looks a bit fishy to me. I am not familiar with the code much but
> > at least __offline_pages zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(start_pfn)) so it
> > would blow up before we got here. Same applies to the other caller
> > alloc_contig_range. So either both need a fix and then
> > start_isolate_page_range doesn't need more checks or this is all
> > unnecessary.
>
> Thanks for your suggestion.
> If start_isolate_page_range()'s user can ensure there isn't hole in
> the [start_pfn, end_pfn) range, we can remove the checks. But if we
> cann't, I think it's better reserve these "unnecessary" code.
I am not sure I understand you correctly but my point was that we do not
need check at start_isolate_page_range level but rather than in the
caller (or do not rely on pfn_to_page at that level).
> That's really obfuscated : (
>
> > Please do not make this code more obfuscated than it is already...
> >
> >> Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
> >> ---
> >> mm/page_isolation.c | 7 +++++--
> >> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/mm/page_isolation.c b/mm/page_isolation.c
> >> index d1473b2..3ddc8b3 100644
> >> --- a/mm/page_isolation.c
> >> +++ b/mm/page_isolation.c
> >> @@ -137,8 +137,11 @@ int start_isolate_page_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn,
> >> undo:
> >> for (pfn = start_pfn;
> >> pfn < undo_pfn;
> >> - pfn += pageblock_nr_pages)
> >> - unset_migratetype_isolate(pfn_to_page(pfn), migratetype);
> >> + pfn += pageblock_nr_pages) {
> >> + page = __first_valid_page(pfn, pageblock_nr_pages);
> >> + if (page)
> >> + unset_migratetype_isolate(page, migratetype);
> >> + }
> >>
> >> return -EBUSY;
> >> }
> >> --
> >> 1.7.0.4
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >
> > --
> > Michal Hocko
> > SUSE Labs
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-13 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-06 8:08 [PATCH 1/2] mm: page_isolation: check pfn validity before access Weijie Yang
2014-11-06 12:31 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-11-11 22:23 ` Andrew Morton
2014-11-12 2:10 ` Weijie Yang
2014-11-12 2:02 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2014-11-12 19:34 ` Michal Hocko
2014-11-13 1:46 ` Weijie Yang
2014-11-13 13:10 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
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