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SubjectRe: [External] Re: [PATCH v5 00/21] Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 8:45 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:42:58AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Mon 23-11-20 18:36:33, Muchun Song wrote:
> > > > No I really mean that pfn_to_page will give you a struct page pointer
> > > > from pages which you release from the vmemmap page tables. Those pages
> > > > might get reused as soon sa they are freed to the page allocator.
> > >
> > > We will remap vmemmap pages 2-7 (virtual addresses) to page
> > > frame 1. And then we free page frame 2-7 to the buddy allocator.
> >
> > And this doesn't really happen in an atomic fashion from the pfn walker
> > POV, right? So it is very well possible that
> >
> > struct page *page = pfn_to_page();
> > // remapping happens here
> > // page content is no longer valid because its backing memory can be
> > // reused for whatever purpose.
>
> pfn_to_page() returns you a virtual address. That virtual address
> remains a valid pointer to exactly the same contents, it's just that
> the page tables change to point to a different struct page which has
> the same compound_head().

I agree with you.

Hi Michal,

Maybe you need to look at this.

--
Yours,
Muchun

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