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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] mm/khugepaged: fix khugepaged+shmem races
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 14:52:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230303145258.866b985b21b3ccd9bc41bc4b@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZAIT2YI4WrzZK5NK@x1n>

On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 10:35:53 -0500 Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 05:54:36PM +0900, David Stevens wrote:
> > From: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org>
> > 
> > Fix two races in khugepaged+shmem that cause issues with userfaultfd and
> > lseek, respectively.
> > 
> > v3 -> v4:
> >  - Base changes on mm-everything (fba720cb4dc0)
> >  - Add patch to refactor error handling control flow in collapse_file
> >  - Rebase userfaultfd patch with no significant logic changes
> >  - Different approach for fixing lseek race
> 
> I just noticed this one hasn't landed unstable, so I guess I just posted a
> trivial cleanup that can conflict with this so it won't apply cleanly..
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230303151218.311015-1-peterx@redhat.com
> 
> The resolution will be fairly straightforward though, and I'm happy to
> rebase that one to this since this targets a real bug so should have higher
> priority.

Even without the above patch ("mm/khugepaged: Cleanup memcg uncharge
for failure path") I'm seeing a big reject in khugepaged.c.  Might be
easily fixed, didn't look.

> I guess it's possible Andrew thought the series has unsettled comment so
> Andrew could just have ignored that whole set in the mark ups.  A repost
> could possibly clarify that.

Yes please.  Lets gather the acks thus far, rebase on
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm's mm-unstable
branch and resend?

> Again, it'll always great to get another eye on this slightly involved
> series. Matthew / Yang were already on the list, also copying Zach for his
> recent works on khugepaged just in case he spots anything wrong.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-03 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-17  8:54 David Stevens
2023-02-17  8:54 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] mm/khugepaged: refactor collapse_file control flow David Stevens
2023-02-17 23:44   ` Yang Shi
2023-02-21 21:54   ` Peter Xu
2023-02-21 22:28     ` Yang Shi
2023-02-22  4:08     ` David Stevens
2023-02-22 16:24       ` Peter Xu
2023-02-17  8:54 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] mm/khugepaged: skip shmem with userfaultfd David Stevens
2023-02-21 22:12   ` Peter Xu
2023-02-17  8:54 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] mm/khugepaged: maintain page cache uptodate flag David Stevens
2023-02-21 22:18   ` Peter Xu
2023-02-17 10:37 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] mm/khugepaged: fix khugepaged+shmem races Miko Larsson
2023-03-03 15:35 ` Peter Xu
2023-03-03 15:45   ` Zach O'Keefe
2023-03-03 18:55   ` Yang Shi
2023-03-03 22:52   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-03-06  2:44     ` David Stevens
2023-03-06 21:25       ` Andrew Morton

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