From: Nathan Gao <zcgao@amazon.com>
To: <sj@kernel.org>, <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <damon@lists.linux.dev>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Nathan Gao <zcgao@amazon.com>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/damon: use a page-aligned sampling address
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:38:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260827193821.46115-1-zcgao@amazon.com> (raw)
__damon_va_prepare_access_check() picks a random byte address within the
region and stores it in r->sampling_addr. There are two users of
r->sampling_addr in vaddr.c that pass it into a page table walk, and
both use it as the address of a page.
damon_va_mkold(mm, r->sampling_addr)
damon_va_walk_page_range(mm, addr, addr + 1)
damon_mkold_pmd_entry()
damon_ptep_mkold(pte, vma, addr)
ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, pte)
mmu_notifier_clear_young(mm, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE)
damon_va_young(mm, r->sampling_addr, &folio_sz)
damon_va_walk_page_range(mm, addr, addr + 1)
damon_young_pmd_entry()
ptep_get(pte)
mmu_notifier_test_young(walk->mm, addr)
test_and_clear_young_ptes(), which backs ptep_test_and_clear_young() on
arm64, documents @addr as "Address the first page is mapped at".
For arm64, before commit 6f0e1142173a ("arm64: mm: support batch
clearing of the young flag for large folios"), the contpte helper walked
exactly CONT_PTES entries from the aligned-down page table pointer and
used @addr only to pass down to each entry, so an unaligned value was
harmless:
ptep = contpte_align_down(ptep);
addr = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, CONT_PTE_SIZE);
for (i = 0; i < CONT_PTES; i++, ptep++, addr += PAGE_SIZE)
Now the range to walk is derived from @addr instead: end = addr +
nr * PAGE_SIZE, rounded up to CONT_PTE_SIZE. For a sample in the last
page of a contpte block, the sub-page offset puts end just past the
block boundary, so the round-up lands a whole block further and the
walk clears PTE_AF in CONT_PTES entries beyond the sampled block. Seen
on an arm64 guest running the DAMON selftests as random slab and page
table corruption.
Align the sampled address down to a page boundary. It is the address of
the page to sample, so this matches its intended meaning and fixes both
users in vaddr.c.
Fixes: 3f49584b262c ("mm/damon: implement primitives for the virtual memory address spaces")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Gao <zcgao@amazon.com>
---
mm/damon/vaddr.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/damon/vaddr.c b/mm/damon/vaddr.c
index 2c1c1952c008d..e26e426a56af2 100644
--- a/mm/damon/vaddr.c
+++ b/mm/damon/vaddr.c
@@ -360,7 +360,8 @@ static void __damon_va_prepare_access_check(struct mm_struct *mm,
struct damon_region *r,
struct damon_ctx *ctx)
{
- r->sampling_addr = damon_rand(ctx, r->ar.start, r->ar.end);
+ r->sampling_addr = PAGE_ALIGN_DOWN(damon_rand(ctx, r->ar.start,
+ r->ar.end));
damon_va_mkold(mm, r->sampling_addr);
}
--
2.50.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-27 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-27 19:38 Nathan Gao [this message]
2026-08-28 0:22 ` [PATCH] mm/damon: use a page-aligned sampling address SJ Park
2026-08-29 1:04 ` Nathan Gao
2026-08-29 1:55 ` SJ Park
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