Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: linux-5.13.2: warning from kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:359 | From | Miaohe Lin <> | Date | Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:50:07 +0800 |
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On 2021/7/19 19:22, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 07:12:58PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote: >> When in the commit 2799e77529c2a, we're using the percpu_ref to serialize against >> concurrent swapoff, i.e. there's percpu_ref inside get_swap_device() instead of >> rcu_read_lock(). Please see commit 63d8620ecf93 ("mm/swapfile: use percpu_ref to >> serialize against concurrent swapoff") for detail. > > Oh, so this is a backport problem. 2799e77529c2 was backported without > its prerequisite 63d8620ecf93. Greg, probably best to just drop
Yes, they're posted as a patch set:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210426123316.806267-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
> 2799e77529c2 from all stable trees; the race described is not very > important (swapoff vs reading a page back from that swap device). > . >
The swapoff races with reading a page back from that swap device should be really uncommon as most users only do swapoff when the system is going to shutdown.
Sorry for the trouble!
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