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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:22:14 +0800
From: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm: Don't skip swap entry even if zap_details
specified
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 06:54:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:48:07 +0800 Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> > The "details" pointer shouldn't be the token to decide whether we should skip
> > swap entries. For example, when the user specified details->zap_mapping==NULL,
> > it means the user wants to zap all the pages (including COWed pages), then we
> > need to look into swap entries because there can be private COWed pages that
> > was swapped out.
>
> I assume "user" here means "caller".
Right.
>
> > Skipping some swap entries when details is non-NULL may lead to wrongly leaving
> > some of the swap entries while we should have zapped them.
> >
> > A reproducer of the problem:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > The issue seems to exist starting from the initial commit of git.
>
> I'll add cc:stable to this one, thanks.
Yes, thanks.
I didn't yet check the backports to stable yet, some of them might need some
tweaks on the patch. I'll follow that up when it hits it.
--
Peter Xu
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