linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk

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Date:   Fri, 4 Aug 2023 12:41:23 -0700
From:   Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, jannh@...gle.com,
        willy@...radead.org, liam.howlett@...cle.com, david@...hat.com,
        peterx@...hat.com, ldufour@...ux.ibm.com, vbabka@...e.cz,
        michel@...pinasse.org, jglisse@...gle.com, mhocko@...e.com,
        hannes@...xchg.org, dave@...olabs.net, hughd@...gle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during
 the walk

On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 7:14 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri,  4 Aug 2023 08:27:19 -0700 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> > walk_page_range() and friends often operate under write-locked mmap_lock.
> > With introduction of vma locks, the vmas have to be locked as well
> > during such walks to prevent concurrent page faults in these areas.
> > Add an additional member to mm_walk_ops to indicate locking requirements
> > for the walk.
> >
> > ...
> >
> >  18 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> >
>
> That's a big patch for a -stable backport.
>
> Presumably the various -stable maintainers will be wondering why we're
> doing this.  But, as is so often the case, the changelog fails to
> describe any user-visible effects of the change.  Please send this info
> and I'll add it to the changelog.

The change ensures that page walks which prevent concurrent page
faults by write-locking mmap_lock, operate correctly after
introduction of per-vma locks. With per-vma locks page faults can be
handled under vma lock without taking mmap_lock at all, so write
locking mmap_lock would not stop them. The change ensures vmas are
properly locked during such walks. A sample issue this solves is
do_mbind() performing queue_pages_range() to queue pages for
migration. Without this change a concurrent page can be faulted into
the area and be left out of migration.

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