Re: [PATCH 01/12] mm/ksm: catch tail page abnormal in page_stable_node

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 08:14:30PM +0800, alexs@kernel.org wrote:
> From: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
> 
> commit 19138349ed59 ("mm/migrate: Add folio_migrate_flags()") change the
> meaning of func page_stable_node() to check the compound head for tail
> 'page' instead of tail page self.
> But seems both semantics are same at results, the func always return NULL
>  for tail page. So adding a bug monitor here in case of abnormal.

No.  I didn't object to you doing this to convince yourself, but there's
no way we should have this upstream.

If we did have large KSM folios (and I don't think we should!), you'd
crash the kernel instead of silently doing the right thing.

>  static inline struct ksm_stable_node *page_stable_node(struct page *page)
>  {
> -	return folio_stable_node(page_folio(page));
> +	struct ksm_stable_node *node;
> +
> +	node = folio_stable_node(page_folio(page));
> +	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail(page) && node, page);
> +
> +	return node;
>  }