linux-kernel - Re: mm: delay rmap removal until after TLB flush

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Message-ID: <Y2jL5+4bC2fxpG8N@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Mon, 7 Nov 2022 10:12:07 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
        Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mm: delay rmap removal until after TLB flush


Hi Hugh!

On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 01:06:19PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> See folio_lock_anon_vma_read(): folio_mapped() plays a key role in
> establishing the continued validity of an anon_vma.  See comments
> above folio_get_anon_vma(), some by me but most by PeterZ IIRC.

Ohhh, you're quite right. Unfortunately I seem to have completely
forgotten about that :-(