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Message-Id: <20150820163836.b3b69f2bf36dba7020bdc893@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 16:38:36 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 0/5] Fix compound_head() race
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:31:07 +0300 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:21:41PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > Here's my attempt on fixing recently discovered race in compound_head().
> > It should make compound_head() reliable in all contexts.
> >
> > The patchset is against Linus' tree. Let me know if it need to be rebased
> > onto different baseline.
> >
> > It's expected to have conflicts with my page-flags patchset and probably
> > should be applied before it.
> >
> > v3:
> > - Fix build without hugetlb;
> > - Drop page->first_page;
> > - Update comment for free_compound_page();
> > - Use 'unsigned int' for page order;
> >
> > v2: Per Hugh's suggestion page->compound_head is moved into third double
> > word. This way we can avoid memory overhead which v1 had in some
> > cases.
> >
> > This place in struct page is rather overloaded. More testing is
> > required to make sure we don't collide with anyone.
>
> Andrew, can we have the patchset applied, if nobody has objections?
I've been hoping to hear from Hugh and I wasn't planning on processing
these before the 4.2 release.
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