From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, chrisl@kernel.org,
david@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: [PATCH mm-unstable] mm: folio_add_new_anon_rmap() careful __folio_set_swapbacked()
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 22:00:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f3599b1d-8323-0dc5-e9e0-fdb3cfc3dd5a@google.com> (raw)
Commit "mm: use folio_add_new_anon_rmap() if folio_test_anon(folio)==
false" has extended folio_add_new_anon_rmap() to use on non-exclusive
folios, already visible to others in swap cache and on LRU.
That renders its non-atomic __folio_set_swapbacked() unsafe: it risks
overwriting concurrent atomic operations on folio->flags, losing bits
added or restoring bits cleared. Since it's only used in this risky
way when folio_test_locked and !folio_test_anon, many such races are
excluded; but, for example, isolations by folio_test_clear_lru() are
vulnerable, and setting or clearing active.
It could just use the atomic folio_set_swapbacked(); but this function
does try to avoid atomics where it can, so use a branch instead: just
avoid setting swapbacked when it is already set, that is good enough.
(Swapbacked is normally stable once set: lazyfree can undo it, but
only later, when found anon in a page table.)
This fixes a lot of instability under compaction and swapping loads:
assorted "Bad page"s, VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO()s, apparently even page double
frees - though I've not worked out what races could lead to the latter.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
---
mm/rmap.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index df1a43295c85..5394c1178bf1 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -1408,7 +1408,9 @@ void folio_add_new_anon_rmap(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_hugetlb(folio), folio);
VM_BUG_ON_VMA(address < vma->vm_start ||
address + (nr << PAGE_SHIFT) > vma->vm_end, vma);
- __folio_set_swapbacked(folio);
+
+ if (!folio_test_swapbacked(folio))
+ __folio_set_swapbacked(folio);
__folio_set_anon(folio, vma, address, exclusive);
if (likely(!folio_test_large(folio))) {
--
2.35.3
next reply other threads:[~2024-06-25 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-25 5:00 Hugh Dickins [this message]
2024-06-25 5:55 ` Barry Song
2024-06-25 7:04 ` Baolin Wang
2024-06-25 7:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-06-25 19:37 ` Hugh Dickins
2024-06-25 19:45 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-06-25 20:12 ` Hugh Dickins
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