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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/12] mm: rmap use pte lock not mmap_sem to set PageMlocked
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:30:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151019233022.GA27292@linux-uzut.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151019131308.GB15819@node.shutemov.name>

On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

>I think we need to have at lease WRITE_ONCE() everywhere we update
>vm_flags and READ_ONCE() where we read it without mmap_sem taken.

Given the CPU-CPU interaction, lockless/racy vm_flag checks should
actually be using barrier pairing, afaict. This is expensive obviously,
but I cannot recall what other places we do lockless games with vm_flags.

Perhaps its time to introduce formal helpers around vma->vm_flags such
that we can encapsulate such things: __vma_[set/read]_vmflags() or whatever
that would be used for those racy scenarios.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-19 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-19  4:44 [PATCH 0/12] mm: page migration cleanups, and a little mlock Hugh Dickins
2015-10-19  4:45 ` [PATCH 1/12] mm Documentation: undoc non-linear vmas Hugh Dickins
2015-10-19  9:16   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-11-05 17:29   ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-19  4:50 ` [PATCH 2/12] mm: rmap use pte lock not mmap_sem to set PageMlocked Hugh Dickins
2015-10-19  6:23   ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-19 11:20     ` Hugh Dickins
2015-10-19 12:33       ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-19 19:17         ` Hugh Dickins
2015-10-19 20:52           ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-19 13:13       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-10-19 19:53         ` Hugh Dickins
2015-10-19 20:10           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-10-19 21:25             ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-19 21:53               ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-10-21 23:26               ` Hugh Dickins
2015-10-29 18:49                 ` [PATCH v2 " Hugh Dickins
2015-11-05 17:50                   ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-19 23:30         ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2015-10-19  4:52 ` [PATCH 3/12] mm: page migration fix PageMlocked on migrated pages Hugh Dickins
2015-11-05 18:18   ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-19  4:54 ` [PATCH 4/12] mm: rename mem_cgroup_migrate to mem_cgroup_replace_page Hugh Dickins
2015-10-19 12:35   ` Johannes Weiner
2015-12-02  9:33   ` [PATCH] mm: fix kerneldoc on mem_cgroup_replace_page Hugh Dickins
2015-12-02 10:17     ` Michal Hocko
2015-12-02 16:57     ` Johannes Weiner
2015-10-19  4:55 ` [PATCH 5/12] mm: correct a couple of page migration comments Hugh Dickins
2015-10-21 17:53   ` Rafael Aquini
2015-10-19  4:57 ` [PATCH 6/12] mm: page migration use the put_new_page whenever necessary Hugh Dickins
2015-11-05 18:31   ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-11-08 21:17     ` Hugh Dickins
2015-10-19  4:59 ` [PATCH 7/12] mm: page migration trylock newpage at same level as oldpage Hugh Dickins
2015-10-21 17:54   ` Rafael Aquini
2015-10-19  5:01 ` [PATCH 8/12] mm: page migration remove_migration_ptes at lock+unlock level Hugh Dickins
2015-10-19  5:03 ` [PATCH 9/12] mm: simplify page migration's anon_vma comment and flow Hugh Dickins
2015-10-19  5:05 ` [PATCH 10/12] mm: page migration use migration entry for swapcache too Hugh Dickins
2015-10-22 22:35   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2015-10-19  5:07 ` [PATCH 11/12] mm: page migration avoid touching newpage until no going back Hugh Dickins
2015-10-19  5:11 ` [PATCH 12/12] mm: migrate dirty page without clear_page_dirty_for_io etc Hugh Dickins

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