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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/gup: fix try_grab_compound_head() race with split_huge_page()
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:09:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2847e923-2366-6a3b-3d76-4513a01981a0@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHbLzkpa5MQBtYcRPWu4vNDn=Q8SKStQ-9wKYWogqRrMR3Aonw@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/16/21 8:40 PM, Yang Shi wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:27 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/16/21 1:10 AM, Yang Shi wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 5:10 AM Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >
>> > It might be possible after Mel's "mm/page_alloc: Allow high-order
>> > pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists" patch
>> > (https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/patch/20210611135753.GC30378@techsingularity.net/).
>>
>> Those would be percpu indeed, but not "lockless, non-atomic", no? They are
>> protected by a local_lock.
> 
> The local_lock is *not* a lock on non-PREEMPT_RT kernel IIUC. It
> disables preempt and IRQ. But preempt disable is no-op on non-preempt
> kernel. IRQ disable can guarantee it is atomic context, but I'm not
> sure if it is equivalent to "atomic freelists" in Jann's context.

Hm right, I thought all locks had the acquire/release semantics, but this one is
just a barrier().


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-17 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-15  1:20 Jann Horn
2021-06-15  2:00 ` Andrew Morton
2021-06-15  2:36   ` Jann Horn
2021-06-15  2:38     ` Jann Horn
2021-06-15  6:37 ` John Hubbard
2021-06-15 12:09   ` Jann Horn
2021-06-15 23:10     ` Yang Shi
2021-06-16 17:27       ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-06-16 18:40         ` Yang Shi
2021-06-17 16:09           ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2021-06-18 13:25     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-18 13:50       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-06-18 14:58         ` Jason Gunthorpe

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