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From: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
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	Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH V1 5.4.y 1/2] mm/mprotect: use long for page accountings and retval
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:09:25 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251125050926.1100484-2-harry.yoo@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251125050926.1100484-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com>

From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

commit a79390f5d6a78647fd70856bd42b22d994de0ba2 upstream.

Switch to use type "long" for page accountings and retval across the whole
procedure of change_protection().

The change should have shrinked the possible maximum page number to be
half comparing to previous (ULONG_MAX / 2), but it shouldn't overflow on
any system either because the maximum possible pages touched by change
protection should be ULONG_MAX / PAGE_SIZE.

Two reasons to switch from "unsigned long" to "long":

  1. It suites better on count_vm_numa_events(), whose 2nd parameter takes
     a long type.

  2. It paves way for returning negative (error) values in the future.

Currently the only caller that consumes this retval is change_prot_numa(),
where the unsigned long was converted to an int.  Since at it, touching up
the numa code to also take a long, so it'll avoid any possible overflow
too during the int-size convertion.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104225207.1066932-3-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Adjust context ]
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
---
 include/linux/hugetlb.h |  4 ++--
 include/linux/mm.h      |  2 +-
 mm/hugetlb.c            |  4 ++--
 mm/mempolicy.c          |  2 +-
 mm/mprotect.c           | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 311dd8e921826..e94ac3f6d9ba4 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ struct page *follow_huge_pgd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
 
 int pmd_huge(pmd_t pmd);
 int pud_huge(pud_t pud);
-unsigned long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		unsigned long address, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot);
 
 bool is_hugetlb_entry_migration(pte_t pte);
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ static inline bool isolate_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
 #define putback_active_hugepage(p)	do {} while (0)
 #define move_hugetlb_state(old, new, reason)	do {} while (0)
 
-static inline unsigned long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+static inline long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		unsigned long address, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot)
 {
 	return 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 57cba6e4fdcd7..575b68a47fe55 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1657,7 +1657,7 @@ extern unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		unsigned long old_addr, struct vm_area_struct *new_vma,
 		unsigned long new_addr, unsigned long len,
 		bool need_rmap_locks);
-extern unsigned long change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+extern long change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
 			      unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
 			      int dirty_accountable, int prot_numa);
 extern int mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index e83563b9ab32b..fe24be944e585 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -4635,7 +4635,7 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 #define flush_hugetlb_tlb_range(vma, addr, end)	flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, end)
 #endif
 
-unsigned long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		unsigned long address, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
@@ -4643,7 +4643,7 @@ unsigned long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	pte_t *ptep;
 	pte_t pte;
 	struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
-	unsigned long pages = 0;
+	long pages = 0;
 	bool shared_pmd = false;
 	struct mmu_notifier_range range;
 
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 2bf4ab7b2713d..576b48984928a 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ static int queue_pages_hugetlb(pte_t *pte, unsigned long hmask,
 unsigned long change_prot_numa(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
 {
-	int nr_updated;
+	long nr_updated;
 
 	nr_updated = change_protection(vma, addr, end, PAGE_NONE, 0, 1);
 	if (nr_updated)
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index 95dee88f782b6..f222c305cdc7c 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
-static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
+static long change_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 		unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
 		int dirty_accountable, int prot_numa)
 {
 	pte_t *pte, oldpte;
 	spinlock_t *ptl;
-	unsigned long pages = 0;
+	long pages = 0;
 	int target_node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
 
 	/*
@@ -186,13 +186,13 @@ static inline int pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge(pmd_t *pmd)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+static inline long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		pgprot_t newprot, int dirty_accountable, int prot_numa)
 {
 	pmd_t *pmd;
 	unsigned long next;
-	unsigned long pages = 0;
+	long pages = 0;
 	unsigned long nr_huge_updates = 0;
 	struct mmu_notifier_range range;
 
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
 	pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
 	do {
-		unsigned long this_pages;
+		long this_pages;
 
 		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
 
@@ -258,13 +258,13 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	return pages;
 }
 
-static inline unsigned long change_pud_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+static inline long change_pud_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		pgprot_t newprot, int dirty_accountable, int prot_numa)
 {
 	pud_t *pud;
 	unsigned long next;
-	unsigned long pages = 0;
+	long pages = 0;
 
 	pud = pud_offset(p4d, addr);
 	do {
@@ -278,13 +278,13 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pud_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	return pages;
 }
 
-static inline unsigned long change_p4d_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+static inline long change_p4d_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		pgprot_t newprot, int dirty_accountable, int prot_numa)
 {
 	p4d_t *p4d;
 	unsigned long next;
-	unsigned long pages = 0;
+	long pages = 0;
 
 	p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, addr);
 	do {
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ static inline unsigned long change_p4d_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	return pages;
 }
 
-static unsigned long change_protection_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+static long change_protection_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
 		int dirty_accountable, int prot_numa)
 {
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ static unsigned long change_protection_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	pgd_t *pgd;
 	unsigned long next;
 	unsigned long start = addr;
-	unsigned long pages = 0;
+	long pages = 0;
 
 	BUG_ON(addr >= end);
 	pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
@@ -328,11 +328,11 @@ static unsigned long change_protection_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	return pages;
 }
 
-unsigned long change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+long change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
 		       unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
 		       int dirty_accountable, int prot_numa)
 {
-	unsigned long pages;
+	long pages;
 
 	if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
 		pages = hugetlb_change_protection(vma, start, end, newprot);
-- 
2.43.0



  reply	other threads:[~2025-11-25  5:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-25  5:09 [PATCH V1 5.4.y 0/2] Fix bad pmd due to race between change_prot_numa() and THP migration Harry Yoo
2025-11-25  5:09 ` Harry Yoo [this message]
2025-11-27 14:04   ` Patch "mm/mprotect: use long for page accountings and retval" has been added to the 5.4-stable tree gregkh
2025-11-25  5:09 ` [PATCH V1 5.4.y 2/2] mm/mprotect: delete pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge() Harry Yoo
2025-11-27 14:04   ` Patch "mm/mprotect: delete pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge()" has been added to the 5.4-stable tree gregkh

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