linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: Move vmf_anon_prepare upfront in hugetlb

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:27:00 +0200
From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
	Vishal Moola <vishal.moola@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: Move vmf_anon_prepare upfront in hugetlb_wp

On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 09:34:46AM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> hugetlb_wp calls vmf_anon_prepare() after having allocated a page, which
> means that we might need to call restore_reserve_on_error() upon error.
> vmf_anon_prepare() releases the vma lock before returning, but
> restore_reserve_on_error() expects the vma lock to be held by the caller.
> 
> Fix it by calling vmf_anon_prepare() before allocating the page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
> Fixes: 9acad7ba3e25 ("hugetlb: use vmf_anon_prepare() instead of anon_vma_prepare()")

Let me just revamp this and run away
 

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs