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Message-Id: <20240125225336.6a444c01d9d9812a23a6890b@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:53:36 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
Cc: Jiexun Wang <wangjiexun@...ylab.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/madvise: don't forget to leave lazy MMU mode in
madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range()
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 12:25:48 +0900 Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org> wrote:
> We need to leave lazy MMU mode before unlocking.
What might be the userspace-visible effects of this?
> Fixes: b2f557a21bc8 ("mm/madvise: add cond_resched() in madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range()"
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
I'll add a cc:stable.
> --- a/mm/madvise.c
> +++ b/mm/madvise.c
> @@ -451,6 +451,7 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
> if (++batch_count == SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX) {
> batch_count = 0;
> if (need_resched()) {
> + arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
> pte_unmap_unlock(start_pte, ptl);
> cond_resched();
> goto restart;
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