From: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH v3 mm-new] fs/proc/page: avoid anon folio checks on typed pages except hugetlb
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:07:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250715120748.9290-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com> (raw)
folio_test_anon() and folio_test_ksm() may return false positives when
invoked on typed pages (except hugetlb folios), because lower bits of
folio->mapping may be set even when they do not indicate
FOLIO_MAPPING_* flags.
This leads to tools/mm/page-types reporting pages with
KPF_SLAB, KPF_ANON and KPF_KSM (with flags, page-counts, MB omitted):
$ sudo ./page-types | grep slab
_______S___________________________________ slab
_______S____a________x_____________________ slab,anonymous,ksm
Currently, and going forward (The New York interpretation),
typed pages except hugetlb do not have FOLIO_MAPPING_* flags.
In the future, they won't even cast to folios.
For now, avoid checking FOLIO_MAPPING_* flags on pages if they are
typed pages that are not hugetlb folios.
Update the comment in FOLIO_MAPPING_* flags accordingly.
Fixes: 130d4df57390 ("mm/sl[au]b: rearrange struct slab fields to allow larger rcu_head")
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
---
v2->v3: Did not introduce folio_has_mapcount() per David's suggestion
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250707120740.4413-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com
fs/proc/page.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
include/linux/page-flags.h | 15 +++++++++------
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/proc/page.c b/fs/proc/page.c
index 0cdc78c0d23f..07582dbdef45 100644
--- a/fs/proc/page.c
+++ b/fs/proc/page.c
@@ -148,18 +148,21 @@ u64 stable_page_flags(const struct page *page)
folio = page_folio(page);
k = folio->flags;
- mapping = (unsigned long)folio->mapping;
- is_anon = mapping & FOLIO_MAPPING_ANON;
/*
* pseudo flags for the well known (anonymous) memory mapped pages
*/
- if (page_mapped(page))
- u |= 1 << KPF_MMAP;
- if (is_anon) {
- u |= 1 << KPF_ANON;
- if (mapping & FOLIO_MAPPING_KSM)
- u |= 1 << KPF_KSM;
+ if (!page_has_type(&folio->page) || folio_test_hugetlb(folio)) {
+ mapping = (unsigned long)folio->mapping;
+ is_anon = mapping & FOLIO_MAPPING_ANON;
+
+ if (page_mapped(page))
+ u |= 1 << KPF_MMAP;
+ if (is_anon) {
+ u |= 1 << KPF_ANON;
+ if (mapping & FOLIO_MAPPING_KSM)
+ u |= 1 << KPF_KSM;
+ }
}
/*
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 8e4d6eda8a8d..26ae4c7cf8dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -706,12 +706,15 @@ PAGEFLAG_FALSE(VmemmapSelfHosted, vmemmap_self_hosted)
* address_space which maps the folio from disk; whereas "folio_mapped"
* refers to user virtual address space into which the folio is mapped.
*
- * For slab pages, since slab reuses the bits in struct page to store its
- * internal states, the folio->mapping does not exist as such, nor do
- * these flags below. So in order to avoid testing non-existent bits,
- * please make sure that folio_test_slab(folio) actually evaluates to
- * false before calling the following functions (e.g., folio_test_anon).
- * See mm/slab.h.
+ * For certain typed pages like slabs, since they reuse bits in struct page
+ * to store internal states, folio->mapping does not point to a valid
+ * mapping, nor do these flags exist. To avoid testing non-existent bits,
+ * make sure !page_has_type(&folio->page) || folio_test_hugetlb(folio)
+ * actually evaluates to true before calling the following functions
+ * (e.g., folio_test_anon).
+ *
+ * This check can be skipped if the folio is mapped to userspace, since
+ * typed pages except hugetlb cannot be mapped to userspace at all.
*/
#define FOLIO_MAPPING_ANON 0x1
#define FOLIO_MAPPING_ANON_KSM 0x2
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-07-15 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-15 12:07 Harry Yoo [this message]
2025-07-15 12:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-15 13:30 ` Harry Yoo
2025-07-15 13:36 ` David Hildenbrand
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