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From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org,
	cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com,  hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	j.granados@samsung.com, lizhijian@fujitsu.com,
	 muchun.song@linux.dev, nphamcs@gmail.com, rientjes@google.com,
	 rppt@kernel.org, souravpanda@google.com, vbabka@suse.cz,
	willy@infradead.org,  dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	yi.zhang@redhat.com, alison.schofield@intel.com,
	 david@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: update the memmap stat before page is freed
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 13:37:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+CK2bAL7eEFh_CfYbYmc3oR-iPgGq9zx6-ghAqf62DiU79A8Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJD7tkZarKQ5kN26r3hUQUvj-mWZ0fDMw+yPuSdrUU+XtTxAWw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 1:21 PM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 10:17 AM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 8:42 AM Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > It is more logical to update the stat before the page is freed, to avoid
> > > use after free scenarios.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 15995a352474 ("mm: report per-page metadata information")
> > > Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
>
> Actually although I think this patch is correct, it shouldn't be
> needed after patch 4 because we no longer use the page or pgdat to
> update the stats.

Good point, also there is a warning that pgdat is not used anymore.

I will remove this patch from the series, and clean-up free_page_ext()
by removing pgdat, once patches 3/4 and 4/4 are reviewed.

Pasha

Pasha


  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-08 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-08 15:42 [PATCH v3 0/4] Fixes for memmap accounting Pasha Tatashin
2024-08-08 15:42 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: update the memmap stat before page is freed Pasha Tatashin
2024-08-08 17:17   ` Yosry Ahmed
2024-08-08 17:20     ` Yosry Ahmed
2024-08-08 17:37       ` Pasha Tatashin [this message]
2024-08-08 17:17   ` Fan Ni
2024-08-08 15:42 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] mm: don't account memmap on failure Pasha Tatashin
2024-08-08 17:18   ` Yosry Ahmed
2024-08-08 17:19   ` Fan Ni
2024-08-08 18:12   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-08-08 18:54     ` Pasha Tatashin
2024-08-08 15:42 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] mm: add system wide stats items category Pasha Tatashin
2024-08-08 18:20   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-08-08 19:01     ` Pasha Tatashin
2024-08-08 15:42 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] mm: don't account memmap per-node Pasha Tatashin
2024-08-08 18:26   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-08-08 19:03     ` Pasha Tatashin
2024-08-08 18:55   ` Alison Schofield
2024-08-08 19:05     ` Pasha Tatashin
2024-08-08 21:12       ` Alison Schofield

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