The patch titled
Subject: mm/z3fold: remove buggy use of stale list for allocation
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-z3fold-remove-buggy-use-of-stale-list-for-allocation.patch
This patch should soon appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/z3fold: remove buggy use of stale list for allocation
Currently if z3fold couldn't find an unbuddied page it would first try to
pull a page off the stale list. But this approach is problematic. If
init z3fold page fails later, the page should be freed via
free_z3fold_page to clean up the relevant resource instead of using
__free_page directly. And if page is successfully reused, it will BUG_ON
later in __SetPageMovable because it's already non-lru movable page, i.e.
PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE is already set in page->mapping. In order to fix all
of these issues, we can simply remove the buggy use of stale list for
allocation because can_sleep should always be false and we never really
hit the reusing code path now.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220429064051.61552-4-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/z3fold.c | 23 +----------------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 22 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/z3fold.c~mm-z3fold-remove-buggy-use-of-stale-list-for-allocation
+++ a/mm/z3fold.c
@@ -1102,28 +1102,7 @@ retry:
bud = FIRST;
}
- page = NULL;
- if (can_sleep) {
- spin_lock(&pool->stale_lock);
- zhdr = list_first_entry_or_null(&pool->stale,
- struct z3fold_header, buddy);
- /*
- * Before allocating a page, let's see if we can take one from
- * the stale pages list. cancel_work_sync() can sleep so we
- * limit this case to the contexts where we can sleep
- */
- if (zhdr) {
- list_del(&zhdr->buddy);
- spin_unlock(&pool->stale_lock);
- cancel_work_sync(&zhdr->work);
- page = virt_to_page(zhdr);
- } else {
- spin_unlock(&pool->stale_lock);
- }
- }
- if (!page)
- page = alloc_page(gfp);
-
+ page = alloc_page(gfp);
if (!page)
return -ENOMEM;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-swapfile-unuse_pte-can-map-random-data-if-swap-read-fails.patch
mm-swapfile-fix-lost-swap-bits-in-unuse_pte.patch
mm-madvise-free-hwpoison-and-swapin-error-entry-in-madvise_free_pte_range.patch
mm-migration-reduce-the-rcu-lock-duration.patch
mm-migration-remove-unneeded-lock-page-and-pagemovable-check.patch
mm-migration-return-errno-when-isolate_huge_page-failed.patch
mm-migration-fix-potential-pte_unmap-on-an-not-mapped-pte.patch
mm-vmscan-take-min_slab_pages-into-account-when-try-to-call-shrink_node.patch
mm-vmscan-add-a-comment-about-madv_free-pages-check-in-folio_check_dirty_writeback.patch
mm-vmscan-introduce-helper-function-reclaim_page_list.patch
mm-vmscan-take-all-base-pages-of-thp-into-account-when-race-with-speculative-reference.patch
mm-vmscan-remove-obsolete-comment-in-kswapd_run.patch
mm-vmscan-use-helper-folio_is_file_lru.patch
mm-vmscan-use-helper-folio_is_file_lru-fix.patch
mm-z3fold-fix-sheduling-while-atomic.patch
mm-z3fold-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereferencing.patch
mm-z3fold-remove-buggy-use-of-stale-list-for-allocation.patch
mm-z3fold-throw-warning-on-failure-of-trylock_page-in-z3fold_alloc.patch
revert-mm-z3foldc-allow-__gfp_highmem-in-z3fold_alloc.patch
mm-z3fold-put-z3fold-page-back-into-unbuddied-list-when-reclaim-or-migration-fails.patch
mm-z3fold-always-clear-page_claimed-under-z3fold-page-lock.patch
mm-z3fold-fix-z3fold_reclaim_page-races-with-z3fold_free.patch
mm-z3fold-fix-z3fold_page_migrate-races-with-z3fold_map.patch
