Re: [PATCH] mm/damon: Validate if the pmd entry is present before accessing

[SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>]

Hi Baolin,


Thank you always for your great patch!

On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:21:12 +0800 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> The pmd_huge() is used to validate if the pmd entry is mapped by a huge
> page, also including the case of non-present (migration or hwpoisoned)
> pmd entry on arm64 or x86 architectures. Thus we should validate if it
> is present before making the pmd entry old or getting young state,
> otherwise we can not get the correct corresponding page.

Maybe I'm missing something, but... I'm unsure if the page is present or not
really matters from the perspective of access checking.  In the case, DAMON
could simply report the page has accessed once for the first check after the
page being non-present if it really accessed before, and then report the page
as not accessed, which is true.

Please let me know if I'm missing something.


Thanks,
SJ

> 
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  mm/damon/vaddr.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/damon/vaddr.c b/mm/damon/vaddr.c
> index 3c7b9d6..1d16c6c 100644
> --- a/mm/damon/vaddr.c
> +++ b/mm/damon/vaddr.c
> @@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ static int damon_mkold_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
>  
>  	if (pmd_huge(*pmd)) {
>  		ptl = pmd_lock(walk->mm, pmd);
> +		if (!pmd_present(*pmd)) {
> +			spin_unlock(ptl);
> +			return 0;
> +		}
> +
>  		if (pmd_huge(*pmd)) {
>  			damon_pmdp_mkold(pmd, walk->mm, addr);
>  			spin_unlock(ptl);
> @@ -431,6 +436,11 @@ static int damon_young_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
>  #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>  	if (pmd_huge(*pmd)) {
>  		ptl = pmd_lock(walk->mm, pmd);
> +		if (!pmd_present(*pmd)) {
> +			spin_unlock(ptl);
> +			return 0;
> +		}
> +
>  		if (!pmd_huge(*pmd)) {
>  			spin_unlock(ptl);
>  			goto regular_page;
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1