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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,
	William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: Fix filemap_map_pages for THP
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:34:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200911143428.u7v7tr4vhrvye2id@box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200911012532.24761-1-willy@infradead.org>

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 02:25:32AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> We dereference page->mapping and page->index directly after calling
> find_subpage() and these fields are not valid for tail pages.  While
> commit 4101196b19d7 introduced the call to find_subpage(), the problem
> existed prior to this; I'm going to suggest all the way back to when
> THPs first existed.

When hugetmpfs made upstream.

> The user-visible effects of this are almost negligible.  To hit it, you
> have to mmap a tmpfs file at an unaligned address and then it's only
> a disabled optimisation causing page faults to happen more frequently
> than they otherwise would.
> 
> Fix this by keeping both head and page pointers and checking the
> appropriate one.  We could use page_mapping() and page_to_index(),
> but that's higher overhead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov


      reply	other threads:[~2020-09-11 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-11  1:25 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-09-11 14:34 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]

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