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From: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [bug report] mm/mglru: fix underprotected page cache
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:42:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOUHufYWxQ6Sn35ueznsvO71tfVHhvO+MqiiRFWr_cmM-z4ScA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1eeadcc6-8c6a-4ba6-ab2f-1ec3b5d4730e@moroto.mountain>

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 12:13 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Yu Zhao,
>
> The patch 081488051d28: "mm/mglru: fix underprotected page cache"
> from Dec 7, 2023 (linux-next), leads to the following Smatch static
> checker warning:
>
>         mm/workingset.c:318 lru_gen_refault()
>         warn: always true condition '(refs >= ((((1))) << (__builtin_choose_expr((4 == 4), (((2) < (64 - 26 - 3 - 3 - 0 - 10 - 0 - (8 + 14))) ?(2):(64 - 26 - 3 - 3 - 0 - 10 - 0 - (8 + 14))), ))) - 1) => (s32min-s32max >= 0)'
>
> mm/workingset.c
>     308         atomic_long_add(delta, &lrugen->refaulted[hist][type][tier]);
>     309         mod_lruvec_state(lruvec, WORKINGSET_ACTIVATE_BASE + type, delta);
>     310
>     311         /*
>     312          * Count the following two cases as stalls:
>     313          * 1. For pages accessed through page tables, hotter pages pushed out
>     314          *    hot pages which refaulted immediately.
>     315          * 2. For pages accessed multiple times through file descriptors,
>     316          *    they would have been protected by sort_folio().
>     317          */
> --> 318         if (lru_gen_in_fault() || refs >= BIT(LRU_REFS_WIDTH) - 1) {
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> In my x86 allmodconfig this is zero and refs is always >= 0.  This could
> be intentional, but I thought it was worth checking.

Appreciate the manual work!

This indeed is intentional if LRU_REFS_WIDTH is 0. What would be the
best way to suppress this warning?


  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-12  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-12  7:13 Dan Carpenter
2024-01-12  7:42 ` Yu Zhao [this message]
2024-01-12  8:29   ` Dan Carpenter

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