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Message-ID: <ef553b86-dd65-e64c-8c2e-fb4a5451e7c4@huawei.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2023 09:43:58 +0800
From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: avoid false page outside zone error info
On 2023/7/5 0:38, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2023 20:36:00 +0800 Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2023/7/4 20:13, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 07:18:23PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>>>> @@ -470,6 +470,8 @@ static int page_outside_zone_boundaries(struct zone *zone, struct page *page)
>>>> sp = zone->spanned_pages;
>>>> if (!zone_spans_pfn(zone, pfn))
>>>> ret = 1;
>>>> + else
>>>> + ret = 0;
>>>
>>> Surely 'ret = zone_spans_pfn(zone, pfn);' ?
>>
>> Do you mean 'ret = !zone_spans_pfn(zone, pfn);'? This format looks fine to me.
>>
>>>
>>> Also, did you spot this by inspection or do you have a test-case or bug
>>> report? Should this have a Fixes: tag?
>>
>> This is from code inspection. The race window should be really small thus hard to trigger
>> in real world. And yes, it seems Fixes tag is a really ancient commit:
>>
>> Fixes: bdc8cb984576 ("[PATCH] memory hotplug locking: zone span seqlock")
>>
>
> Thanks. I updated the changelog:
>
> : If pfn is outside zone boundaries in the first round, ret will be set to
> : 1. But if pfn is changed to inside the zone boundaries in zone span
> : seqretry path, ret is still set to 1 leading to false page outside zone
> : error info.
> :
> : This is from code inspection. The race window should be really small thus
> : hard to trigger in real world.
> :
> : Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230704111823.940331-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
> : Fixes: bdc8cb984576 ("[PATCH] memory hotplug locking: zone span seqlock")
>
> and I made the change suggested by Matthew:
>
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-avoid-false-page-outside-zone-error-info-fix
> +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -468,10 +468,7 @@ static int page_outside_zone_boundaries(
> seq = zone_span_seqbegin(zone);
> start_pfn = zone->zone_start_pfn;
> sp = zone->spanned_pages;
> - if (!zone_spans_pfn(zone, pfn))
> - ret = 1;
> - else
> - ret = 0;
> + ret = !zone_spans_pfn(zone, pfn);
> } while (zone_span_seqretry(zone, seq));
These changes look good to me. Thanks for doing this.
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