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Message-ID: <3403e5d3-e840-cea7-1863-b6b9ab7ecae0@bytedance.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Aug 2023 10:21:20 +0800
From:   Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/13] mm/khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() with
 mmap_read_lock()



On 2023/8/6 11:55, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2023, Qi Zheng wrote:
>> On 2023/7/12 12:42, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>>> Bring collapse_and_free_pmd() back into collapse_pte_mapped_thp().
>>> It does need mmap_read_lock(), but it does not need mmap_write_lock(),
>>> nor vma_start_write() nor i_mmap lock nor anon_vma lock.  All racing
>>> paths are relying on pte_offset_map_lock() and pmd_lock(), so use those.
> ...
>>> @@ -1681,47 +1634,76 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm,
>>> unsigned long addr,
>>>    
>>>      if (pte_none(ptent))
>>>    			continue;
>>> -		page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, ptent);
>>> -		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(page && is_zone_device_page(page)))
>>> +		/*
>>> +		 * We dropped ptl after the first scan, to do the
>>> mmu_notifier:
>>> +		 * page lock stops more PTEs of the hpage being faulted in,
>>> but
>>> +		 * does not stop write faults COWing anon copies from existing
>>> +		 * PTEs; and does not stop those being swapped out or
>>> migrated.
>>> +		 */
>>> +		if (!pte_present(ptent)) {
>>> +			result = SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT;
>>>    			goto abort;
>>> +		}
>>> +		page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, ptent);
>>> +		if (hpage + i != page)
>>> +			goto abort;
>>> +
>>> +		/*
>>> +		 * Must clear entry, or a racing truncate may re-remove it.
>>> +		 * TLB flush can be left until pmdp_collapse_flush() does it.
>>> +		 * PTE dirty? Shmem page is already dirty; file is read-only.
>>> +		 */
>>> +		pte_clear(mm, addr, pte);
>>
>> This is not non-present PTE entry, so we should call ptep_clear() to let
>> page_table_check track the PTE clearing operation, right? Otherwise it
>> may lead to false positives?
> 
> You are right: thanks a lot for catching that: fix patch follows.

With fix patch:

Reviewed-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>

Thanks.

> 
> Hugh

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