Re: Potential bug in soft-dirty bits (with test case)

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 12:51:59PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 11/30/20 11:37 AM, Mohamed Alzayat wrote:

> > Thanks for confirming, Vlastimil!
> > 
> > The first bad commit is: 0758cd8304942292e95a0f750c374533db378b32
> > asm-generic/tlb: avoid potential double flush
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0758cd8304942292e95a0f750c374533db378b32
> > 
> > Reverting this commit solves the problem, but this might not be the
> > right way of fixing it.
> 
> Thanks for bisecting! Let's CC people involved in that commit. All important
> should be in the quoted conversation above.

There's a thread about it here:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120143557.6715-1-will@xxxxxxxxxx

That softdirty code really shouldn't be using mmu_gather imo, but I'm
still not clear on what exactly is broken why there.





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