linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mm: fix missing wake-up event for FSDAX pages

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Date:   Wed, 6 Jul 2022 00:38:41 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>, jgg@...pe.ca,
        jhubbard@...dia.com, william.kucharski@...cle.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, jack@...e.cz, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        nvdimm@...ts.linux.dev, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: fix missing wake-up event for FSDAX pages

On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 02:18:19PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue,  5 Jul 2022 20:35:32 +0800 Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com> wrote:
> 
> > FSDAX page refcounts are 1-based, rather than 0-based: if refcount is
> > 1, then the page is freed.  The FSDAX pages can be pinned through GUP,
> > then they will be unpinned via unpin_user_page() using a folio variant
> > to put the page, however, folio variants did not consider this special
> > case, the result will be to miss a wakeup event (like the user of
> > __fuse_dax_break_layouts()).  Since FSDAX pages are only possible get
> > by GUP users, so fix GUP instead of folio_put() to lower overhead.
> > 
> 
> What are the user visible runtime effects of this bug?

"missing wake up event" seems pretty obvious to me?  Something goes to
sleep waiting for a page to become unused, and is never woken.