The patch titled
Subject: virtio-mem: use page_offline_(start|end) when setting PageOffline()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
virtio-mem-use-page_offline_startend-when-setting-pageoffline.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: virtio-mem: use page_offline_(start|end) when setting PageOffline()
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.
Existing balloon implementations usually allow reading inflated memory;
doing so might result in unnecessary overhead in the hypervisor, which is
currently the case with virtio-mem.
For future virtio-mem use cases, it will be different when using shmem,
huge pages, !anonymous private mappings, ... as backing storage for a VM.
virtio-mem unplugged memory must no longer be accessed and access might
result in undefined behavior. There will be a virtio spec extension to
document this change, including a new feature flag indicating the changed
behavior. We really don't want to race against PFN walkers reading random
page content.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526093041.8800-6-david@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c~virtio-mem-use-page_offline_startend-when-setting-pageoffline
+++ a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c
@@ -1065,6 +1065,7 @@ static int virtio_mem_memory_notifier_cb
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(
ClearPageReserved(page);
}
}
+ page_offline_end();
}
/*
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@xxxxxxxxxx are
memory-hotplugrst-complete-admin-guide-overhaul.patch
