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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] mm: don't expose page to fast gup prematurely
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 02:23:16PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 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().

I think so. One in do_swap_page() and another in unuse_pte(). Both
are on KSM paths. Am I referencing a stale copy of the source?

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