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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] mm: don't expose page to fast gup prematurely
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 01:05:18AM -0600, Yu Zhao wrote:
> We don't want to expose page to fast gup running on a remote CPU
> before all local non-atomic ops on page flags are visible first.
>
> For anon page that isn't in swap cache, we need to make sure all
> prior non-atomic ops, especially __SetPageSwapBacked() in
> page_add_new_anon_rmap(), are order before set_pte_at() to prevent
> the following race:
>
> CPU 1 CPU1
> set_pte_at() get_user_pages_fast()
> page_add_new_anon_rmap() gup_pte_range()
> __SetPageSwapBacked() SetPageReferenced()

Is there a particular codepath that has what you listed for CPU?
After quick look, I only saw that we page_add_new_anon_rmap() called
before set_pte_at().

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Kirill A. Shutemov

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