Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] mm/thp: fix __split_huge_pmd_locked() for migration PMD

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On 9/2/20 2:47 PM, Zi Yan wrote:
On 2 Sep 2020, at 12:58, Ralph Campbell wrote:

A migrating transparent huge page has to already be unmapped. Otherwise,
the page could be modified while it is being copied to a new page and
data could be lost. The function __split_huge_pmd() checks for a PMD
migration entry before calling __split_huge_pmd_locked() leading one to
think that __split_huge_pmd_locked() can handle splitting a migrating PMD.
However, the code always increments the page->_mapcount and adjusts the
memory control group accounting assuming the page is mapped.
Also, if the PMD entry is a migration PMD entry, the call to
is_huge_zero_pmd(*pmd) is incorrect because it calls pmd_pfn(pmd) instead
of migration_entry_to_pfn(pmd_to_swp_entry(pmd)).
Fix these problems by checking for a PMD migration entry.

Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the fix. You can add Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>

I think you also want to add the Fixes tag and cc stable.

Fixes 84c3fc4e9c56 (“mm: thp: check pmd migration entry in common path”)
cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.14+

Thanks, I'll add these.





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