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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: mike.kravetz@oracle.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	will@kernel.org, songmuchun@bytedance.com,
	tsbogend@alpha.franken.de, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when unmapping or migrating
Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 21:04:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220509210404.6a43aff15d0d6b3af0741001@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1652147571.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>

On Tue, 10 May 2022 11:45:57 +0800 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Now migrating a hugetlb page or unmapping a poisoned hugetlb page, we'll
> use ptep_clear_flush() and set_pte_at() to nuke the page table entry
> and remap it, and this is incorrect for CONT-PTE or CONT-PMD size hugetlb
> page,

It would be helpful to describe why it's wrong.  Something like "should
use huge_ptep_clear_flush() and huge_ptep_clear_flush() for this
purpose"?

> which will cause potential data consistent issue. This patch set
> will change to use hugetlb related APIs to fix this issue, please find
> details in each patch. Thanks.

Is a cc:stable needed here?  And are we able to identify a target for a
Fixes: tag?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-10  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-10  3:45 [PATCH v3 0/3] Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when unmapping or migrating Baolin Wang
2022-05-10  3:45 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] mm: change huge_ptep_clear_flush() to return the original pte Baolin Wang
2022-05-10  3:45 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] mm: rmap: Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when migration Baolin Wang
2022-05-10 23:17   ` Andrew Morton
2022-05-10 23:28     ` Andrew Morton
2022-05-11  3:59       ` Baolin Wang
2022-05-11  1:19   ` kernel test robot
2022-05-11  2:04     ` Andrew Morton
2022-05-10  3:46 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] mm: rmap: Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when unmapping Baolin Wang
2022-05-10  4:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-05-10  4:26   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when unmapping or migrating Baolin Wang

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