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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/khugepaged: Fix ->anon_vma race
On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 11:07 AM Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 08:28:59PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> > No, that lockdep assert has to be there. Page table traversal is
> > allowed under any one of the mmap lock, the anon_vma lock (if the VMA
> > is associated with an anon_vma), and the mapping lock (if the VMA is
> > associated with a mapping); and so to be able to remove page tables,
> > we must hold all three of them.
>
> Okay, that's fair. I agree with the patch now. Maybe adjust the commit
> message a bit?

Yeah, the explanation makes sense to me too. Reviewed-by: Yang Shi
<shy828301@gmail.com>

>
> Anyway:
>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@intel.linux.com>
>
> BTW, I've noticied that you recently added tlb_remove_table_sync_one().
> I'm not sure why it is needed. Why IPI in pmdp_collapse_flush() in not
> good enough to serialize against GUP fast?
>
> --
> Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov

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