On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 02:25:18PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Let's properly use page_offline_(start|end) to synchronize setting
> PageOffline(), so we won't have valid page access to unplugged memory
> regions from /proc/kcore.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c | 2 ++
> mm/util.c | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c
> index 10ec60d81e84..dc2a2e2b2ff8 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c
> @@ -1065,6 +1065,7 @@ static int virtio_mem_memory_notifier_cb(struct notifier_block *nb,
> static void virtio_mem_set_fake_offline(unsigned long pfn,
> unsigned long nr_pages, bool onlined)
> {
> + page_offline_begin();
> for (; nr_pages--; pfn++) {
> struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
>
> @@ -1075,6 +1076,7 @@ static void virtio_mem_set_fake_offline(unsigned long pfn,
> ClearPageReserved(page);
> }
> }
> + page_offline_end();
I'm not really familiar with ballooning and memory hotplug, but is it the
only place that needs page_offline_{begin,end} ?
> }
>
> /*
> diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
> index 95395d4e4209..d0e357bd65e6 100644
> --- a/mm/util.c
> +++ b/mm/util.c
> @@ -1046,8 +1046,10 @@ void page_offline_begin(void)
> {
> down_write(&page_offline_rwsem);
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_offline_begin);
Should have been a part of the previous patch.
> void page_offline_end(void)
> {
> up_write(&page_offline_rwsem);
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_offline_end);
Ditto
> --
> 2.30.2
>
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
