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Message-ID: <20230702235034.GA2906304@ik1-406-35019.vs.sakura.ne.jp>
Date:   Mon, 3 Jul 2023 08:50:34 +0900
From:   Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@...ux.dev>
To:     Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@...gle.com>
Cc:     mike.kravetz@...cle.com, naoya.horiguchi@....com,
        songmuchun@...edance.com, shy828301@...il.com,
        linmiaohe@...wei.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        duenwen@...gle.com, axelrasmussen@...gle.com, jthoughton@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/hwpoison: delete all entries before traversal
 in __folio_free_raw_hwp

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 01:59:23PM -0700, Jiaqi Yan wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 7:52 AM Naoya Horiguchi
> <naoya.horiguchi@...ux.dev> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 04:40:12PM +0000, Jiaqi Yan wrote:
> > > Traversal on llist (e.g. llist_for_each_safe) is only safe AFTER entries
> > > are deleted from the llist.
> > >
> > > llist_del_all are lock free with itself. folio_clear_hugetlb_hwpoison()s
> > > from __update_and_free_hugetlb_folio and memory_failure won't need
> > > explicit locking when freeing the raw_hwp_list.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@...gle.com>
> >
> > (Sorry if stupid question...) folio_set_hugetlb_hwpoison() also calls
> > llist_for_each_safe() but it still traverses the list without calling
> > llist_del_all().  This convention applies only when removing item(s)?
> 
> I think in our previous discussion, Mike and I agree as of today's
> code in hugetlb.c and memory-failure.c, concurrent adding, deleting,
> traversing are fine with each other and with themselves [1], but new
> code need to be careful wrt ops on raw_hwp_list.
> 
> This patch is a low-hanging fruit to ensure any caller of
> __folio_free_raw_hwp won't introduce any problem by correcting one
> thing in __folio_free_raw_hwp: since it wants to delete raw_hwp_page
> entries in the list, it should do it by first llist_del_all, and then
> kfree with a llist_for_each_safe.

Thanks for the explanation, this is worth adding to the patch description
for future developers to understand the background.

> 
> As for folio_set_hugetlb_hwpoison, I am not very comfortable fixing
> it. I imagine a way to fix it is llist_del_all() =>
> llist_for_each_safe{...} => llist_add_batch(), or llist_add() within
> llist_for_each_safe{...}. I haven't really thought through if this is
> a correct fix.

I see. Changing folio_set_hugetlb_hwpoison() like this is a little too complex
considering that this fix is for precaution.
So no change on this for now is fine to me.

Anyway this patch looks fine to me.

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>

> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CACw3F51o1ZFSYZa+XLnk4Wwjy2w_q=Kn+aOQs0=qpfG-ZYDFKg@mail.gmail.com/#t
> 
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Naoya Horiguchi
> >
> > > ---
> > >  mm/memory-failure.c | 8 +++-----
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> > > index 004a02f44271..c415c3c462a3 100644
> > > --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> > > +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> > > @@ -1825,12 +1825,11 @@ static inline struct llist_head *raw_hwp_list_head(struct folio *folio)
> > >
> > >  static unsigned long __folio_free_raw_hwp(struct folio *folio, bool move_flag)
> > >  {
> > > -     struct llist_head *head;
> > > -     struct llist_node *t, *tnode;
> > > +     struct llist_node *t, *tnode, *head;
> > >       unsigned long count = 0;
> > >
> > > -     head = raw_hwp_list_head(folio);
> > > -     llist_for_each_safe(tnode, t, head->first) {
> > > +     head = llist_del_all(raw_hwp_list_head(folio));
> > > +     llist_for_each_safe(tnode, t, head) {
> > >               struct raw_hwp_page *p = container_of(tnode, struct raw_hwp_page, node);
> > >
> > >               if (move_flag)
> > > @@ -1840,7 +1839,6 @@ static unsigned long __folio_free_raw_hwp(struct folio *folio, bool move_flag)
> > >               kfree(p);
> > >               count++;
> > >       }
> > > -     llist_del_all(head);
> > >       return count;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.41.0.162.gfafddb0af9-goog
> > >
> > >
> > >