Re: [RFC 2/4] mm: page_owner: use new iteration API

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On 24.01.25 22:37, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
The page_ext_next() function assumes that page extension objects for a
page order allocation always reside in the same memory section, which
may not be true and could lead to crashes. Use the page_ext_iter API
instead.

Fixes: e98337d11bbd ("mm/contig_alloc: support __GFP_COMP")
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@xxxxxxxxxx>
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[...]

  void __folio_copy_owner(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *old)
@@ -364,24 +376,26 @@ void __folio_copy_owner(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *old)
  	int i;
  	struct page_ext *old_ext;
  	struct page_ext *new_ext;
+	struct page_ext_iter old_iter;
+	struct page_ext_iter new_iter;
  	struct page_owner *old_page_owner;
  	struct page_owner *new_page_owner;
  	depot_stack_handle_t migrate_handle;
- old_ext = page_ext_get(&old->page);
+	old_ext = page_ext_iter_begin(&old_iter, &old->page);
  	if (unlikely(!old_ext))
  		return;
- new_ext = page_ext_get(&newfolio->page);
+	new_ext = page_ext_iter_begin(&new_iter, &newfolio->page);
  	if (unlikely(!new_ext)) {
-		page_ext_put(old_ext);
+		page_ext_iter_end(&old_iter);
  		return;
  	}
old_page_owner = get_page_owner(old_ext);
  	new_page_owner = get_page_owner(new_ext);
  	migrate_handle = new_page_owner->handle;
-	__update_page_owner_handle(new_ext, old_page_owner->handle,
+	__update_page_owner_handle(&new_iter, old_page_owner->handle,
  				   old_page_owner->order, old_page_owner->gfp_mask,
  				   old_page_owner->last_migrate_reason,
  				   old_page_owner->ts_nsec, old_page_owner->pid,
@@ -390,8 +404,13 @@ void __folio_copy_owner(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *old)
  	 * Do not proactively clear PAGE_EXT_OWNER{_ALLOCATED} bits as the folio
  	 * will be freed after migration. Keep them until then as they may be
  	 * useful.
+	 *
+	 * Note that we need to re-grab the page_ext iterator since
+	 * __update_page_owner_handle changed it.
  	 */
-	__update_page_owner_free_handle(new_ext, 0, old_page_owner->order,
+	page_ext_iter_end(&new_iter);
+	page_ext_iter_begin(&new_iter, &newfolio->page);

So a page_ext_iter_reset() could be helpful, that wouldn't drop the RCU lock. With that, we could probably also drop the comment.

+	__update_page_owner_free_handle(&new_iter, 0, old_page_owner->order,
  					old_page_owner->free_pid,
  					old_page_owner->free_tgid,
  					old_page_owner->free_ts_nsec);
@@ -402,12 +421,12 @@ void __folio_copy_owner(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *old)
  	 */
  	for (i = 0; i < (1 << new_page_owner->order); i++) {
  		old_page_owner->handle = migrate_handle;
-		old_ext = page_ext_next(old_ext);
+		old_ext = page_ext_iter_next(&old_iter);
  		old_page_owner = get_page_owner(old_ext);
  	}
- page_ext_put(new_ext);
-	page_ext_put(old_ext);
+	page_ext_iter_end(&new_iter);
+	page_ext_iter_end(&old_iter);

In general, we should look into implementing the iterator without temporarily dropping the RCU lock I think.

Nothing jumped at me from a quick glimpse, but yes, this usage is not that easy.

--
Cheers,

David / dhildenb





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