From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 4/5] mm: make compound_head() robust
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 22:31:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150821193109.GA14785@node.dhcp.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1508211109460.27769@east.gentwo.org>
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:11:27AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>
> > > Is this really true? For example if it's a slab page, will that page
> > > ever be inspected by code which is looking for the PageTail bit?
> >
> > +Christoph.
> >
> > What we know for sure is that space is not used in tail pages, otherwise
> > it would collide with current compound_dtor.
>
> Sl*b allocators only do a virt_to_head_page on tail pages.
The question was whether it's safe to assume that the bit 0 is always zero
in the word as this bit will encode PageTail().
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-21 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-19 9:21 [PATCHv3 0/5] Fix compound_head() race Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-19 9:21 ` [PATCHv3 1/5] mm: drop page->slab_page Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-24 14:59 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-08-24 15:02 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-08-25 17:24 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-19 9:21 ` [PATCHv3 2/5] zsmalloc: use page->private instead of page->first_page Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-24 15:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-08-19 9:21 ` [PATCHv3 3/5] mm: pack compound_dtor and compound_order into one word in struct page Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-20 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2015-08-21 7:13 ` Michal Hocko
2015-08-21 10:40 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-21 10:51 ` Michal Hocko
2015-08-19 9:21 ` [PATCHv3 4/5] mm: make compound_head() robust Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-20 23:36 ` Andrew Morton
2015-08-21 12:10 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-21 16:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-08-21 19:31 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2015-08-21 19:34 ` Andrew Morton
2015-08-21 21:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-08-24 15:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-08-25 11:44 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-08-25 18:33 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-25 20:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-25 20:46 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-08-25 21:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-26 15:04 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-26 15:39 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-08-26 16:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-26 18:18 ` Hugh Dickins
2015-08-26 21:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-26 22:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2015-08-26 23:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-27 15:09 ` Michal Hocko
2015-08-27 16:03 ` Michal Hocko
2015-08-27 17:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2015-08-27 18:06 ` Michal Hocko
2015-08-27 16:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-27 18:14 ` Michal Hocko
2015-08-27 19:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-23 23:59 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-08-24 9:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-24 10:17 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-19 9:21 ` [PATCHv3 5/5] mm: use 'unsigned int' for page order Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-20 8:32 ` Michal Hocko
2015-08-20 12:31 ` [PATCHv3 0/5] Fix compound_head() race Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-20 23:38 ` Andrew Morton
2015-08-22 20:13 ` Hugh Dickins
2015-08-24 9:36 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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