linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: compaction: Abort compaction if too many pages are isolated and caller is asynchronous

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 3 Jun 2011 00:03:56 +0200
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Ury Stankevich <urykhy@...il.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: compaction: Abort compaction if too many pages are
 isolated and caller is asynchronous

On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 05:59:13AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Now that I look code more, it would meet VM_BUG_ON of get_page if the page is really
> freed. I think if we hold zone->lock to prevent prep_new_page racing, it would be okay.

There would be problems with split_huge_page too, we can't even use
get_page_unless_zero unless it's a lru page and we hold the lru_lock
and that's an hot lock too.

> But it's rather overkill so I will add my sign to your patch if we don't have better idea
> until tomorrow. :)

Things like compound_trans_head are made to protect against
split_huge_page like in ksm, not exactly to get to the head page when
the page is being freed, so it's a little tricky. If we could get to
the head page safe starting from a tail page it'd solve some issues
for memory-failure too, which is currently using compound_head unsafe
too, but at least that's running after a catastrophic hardware failure
so the safer the better but the little race is unlikely to ever be an
issue for memory-failure (and it's same issue for hugetlbfs and slub
order 3).
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/