From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
To: david@kernel.org
Cc: Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
aneesh.kumar@kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, harry.yoo@oracle.com,
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Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb_pmd_shared()
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 14:24:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d93e5427-7cc9-4b34-a9f3-c9e8e991736b@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251206055553.21759-1-ioworker0@gmail.com>
On 2025/12/6 13:55, Lance Yang wrote:
> From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2025 22:35:55 +0100, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
>> We switched from (wrongly) using the page count to an independent
>> shared count. Now, shared page tables have a refcount of 1 (excluding
>> speculative references) and instead use ptdesc->pt_share_count to
>> identify sharing.
>>
>> We didn't convert hugetlb_pmd_shared(), so right now, we would never
>> detect a shared PMD table as such, because sharing/unsharing no longer
>> touches the refcount of a PMD table.
>>
>> Page migration, like mbind() or migrate_pages() would allow for migrating
>> folios mapped into such shared PMD tables, even though the folios are
>> not exclusive. In smaps we would account them as "private" although they
>> are "shared", and we would be wrongly setting the PM_MMAP_EXCLUSIVE in the
>> pagemap interface.
>>
>> Fix it by properly using ptdesc_pmd_is_shared() in hugetlb_pmd_shared().
>>
>> Fixes: 59d9094df3d7 ("mm: hugetlb: independent PMD page table shared count")
>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>> Cc: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
>> ---
>
> Good catch! Feel free to add:
>
> Reviewed-by: Lance yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Actually:
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-06 6:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-05 21:35 [PATCH v1 0/4] mm/hugetlb: fixes for PMD table sharing (incl. using mmu_gather) David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-05 21:35 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb_pmd_shared() David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-06 2:18 ` Rik van Riel
2025-12-06 5:55 ` Lance Yang
2025-12-06 6:24 ` Lance Yang [this message]
2025-12-05 21:35 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] mm/hugetlb: fix two comments related to huge_pmd_unshare() David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-06 2:26 ` Rik van Riel
2025-12-05 21:35 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] mm/rmap: " David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-06 2:50 ` Rik van Riel
2025-12-05 21:35 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] mm/hugetlb: fix excessive IPI broadcasts when unsharing PMD tables using mmu_gather David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
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