This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm/damon/ops-common: atomically test and clear young on ptes and pmds to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mm-damon-ops-common-atomically-test-and-clear-young-on-ptes-and-pmds.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c11d34fa139e4b0fb4249a30f37b178353533fa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 10:29:47 +0100 Subject: mm/damon/ops-common: atomically test and clear young on ptes and pmds From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> commit c11d34fa139e4b0fb4249a30f37b178353533fa1 upstream. It is racy to non-atomically read a pte, then clear the young bit, then write it back as this could discard dirty information. Further, it is bad practice to directly set a pte entry within a table. Instead clearing young must go through the arch-provided helper, ptep_test_and_clear_young() to ensure it is modified atomically and to give the arch code visibility and allow it to check (and potentially modify) the operation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230602092949.545577-3-ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx Fixes: 3f49584b262c ("mm/damon: implement primitives for the virtual memory address spaces"). Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/damon/ops-common.c | 16 ++++++---------- mm/damon/ops-common.h | 4 ++-- mm/damon/paddr.c | 4 ++-- mm/damon/vaddr.c | 4 ++-- 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) --- a/mm/damon/ops-common.c +++ b/mm/damon/ops-common.c @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ struct page *damon_get_page(unsigned lon return page; } -void damon_ptep_mkold(pte_t *pte, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) +void damon_ptep_mkold(pte_t *pte, struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr) { bool referenced = false; struct page *page = damon_get_page(pte_pfn(*pte)); @@ -41,13 +41,11 @@ void damon_ptep_mkold(pte_t *pte, struct if (!page) return; - if (pte_young(*pte)) { + if (ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, pte)) referenced = true; - *pte = pte_mkold(*pte); - } #ifdef CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER - if (mmu_notifier_clear_young(mm, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE)) + if (mmu_notifier_clear_young(vma->vm_mm, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE)) referenced = true; #endif /* CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER */ @@ -58,7 +56,7 @@ void damon_ptep_mkold(pte_t *pte, struct put_page(page); } -void damon_pmdp_mkold(pmd_t *pmd, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) +void damon_pmdp_mkold(pmd_t *pmd, struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr) { #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE bool referenced = false; @@ -67,13 +65,11 @@ void damon_pmdp_mkold(pmd_t *pmd, struct if (!page) return; - if (pmd_young(*pmd)) { + if (pmdp_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, pmd)) referenced = true; - *pmd = pmd_mkold(*pmd); - } #ifdef CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER - if (mmu_notifier_clear_young(mm, addr, addr + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE)) + if (mmu_notifier_clear_young(vma->vm_mm, addr, addr + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE)) referenced = true; #endif /* CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER */ --- a/mm/damon/ops-common.h +++ b/mm/damon/ops-common.h @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ struct page *damon_get_page(unsigned long pfn); -void damon_ptep_mkold(pte_t *pte, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr); -void damon_pmdp_mkold(pmd_t *pmd, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr); +void damon_ptep_mkold(pte_t *pte, struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr); +void damon_pmdp_mkold(pmd_t *pmd, struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr); int damon_cold_score(struct damon_ctx *c, struct damon_region *r, struct damos *s); --- a/mm/damon/paddr.c +++ b/mm/damon/paddr.c @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ static bool __damon_pa_mkold(struct foli while (page_vma_mapped_walk(&pvmw)) { addr = pvmw.address; if (pvmw.pte) - damon_ptep_mkold(pvmw.pte, vma->vm_mm, addr); + damon_ptep_mkold(pvmw.pte, vma, addr); else - damon_pmdp_mkold(pvmw.pmd, vma->vm_mm, addr); + damon_pmdp_mkold(pvmw.pmd, vma, addr); } return true; } --- a/mm/damon/vaddr.c +++ b/mm/damon/vaddr.c @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static int damon_mkold_pmd_entry(pmd_t * } if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) { - damon_pmdp_mkold(pmd, walk->mm, addr); + damon_pmdp_mkold(pmd, walk->vma, addr); spin_unlock(ptl); return 0; } @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ static int damon_mkold_pmd_entry(pmd_t * pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl); if (!pte_present(*pte)) goto out; - damon_ptep_mkold(pte, walk->mm, addr); + damon_ptep_mkold(pte, walk->vma, addr); out: pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl); return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx are queue-6.1/mm-damon-ops-common-atomically-test-and-clear-young-on-ptes-and-pmds.patch