From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>,
Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>,
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] filemap: do not use folio_contains for swap cache folios
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:44:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aA7PbiXv92WiTy8T@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250427185908.90450-5-ryncsn@gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 02:59:06AM +0800, Kairui Song wrote:
> For filemap and truncate, folio_contains is only used for sanity checks
> to verify the folio index matches the expected lookup/invalidation target.
> The swap cache does not utilize filemap or truncate helpers in ways that
> would trigger these checks, as it mostly implements its own cache management.
>
> Shmem won't interact with these sanity checks either unless thing went
> wrong, it would directly trigger a BUG, because swap cache index are
> unrelated to shmem index, and would almost certainly mismatch (unless
> on collide).
It does happen though. If shmem is writing the folio to swap at the
same time that the file containing the folio is being truncated, we
can hit this.
> - * Context: The caller should have the page locked in order to prevent
> - * (eg) shmem from moving the page between the page cache and swap cache
> - * and changing its index in the middle of the operation.
> + * Context: The caller should ensure folio->index is stable and it's
> + * not added to the swap cache.
I do think we need to keep the part about the folio being locked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-28 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-27 18:59 [PATCH 0/6] mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper Kairui Song
2025-04-27 18:59 ` [PATCH 1/6] fuse: drop usage of folio_index Kairui Song
2025-04-28 0:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-04-29 8:54 ` Kairui Song
2025-04-27 18:59 ` [PATCH 2/6] btrfs: " Kairui Song
2025-04-28 0:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-04-28 0:54 ` Qu Wenruo
2025-04-28 2:14 ` Kairui Song
2025-04-27 18:59 ` [PATCH 3/6] f2fs: " Kairui Song
2025-04-28 0:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-04-28 2:15 ` Kairui Song
2025-06-09 20:56 ` [f2fs-dev] " patchwork-bot+f2fs
2025-04-27 18:59 ` [PATCH 4/6] filemap: do not use folio_contains for swap cache folios Kairui Song
2025-04-28 0:44 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2025-04-28 2:58 ` Kairui Song
2025-04-28 18:54 ` Kairui Song
2025-04-27 18:59 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm: move folio_index to mm/swap.h and remove no longer needed helper Kairui Song
2025-04-27 21:37 ` kernel test robot
2025-04-27 22:19 ` kernel test robot
2025-04-27 23:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-04-28 3:14 ` Kairui Song
2025-04-27 18:59 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm, swap: remove no longer used swap mapping helper Kairui Song
2025-04-28 0:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-04-27 19:02 ` [PATCH 0/6] mm, swap: clean up swap cache " Kairui Song
2025-04-28 0:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
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