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Hugh Dickins and Minchan Kim observed a long time issue which discussed here, but actully the mentioned fix in https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20150504031722.GA2768@blaptop/ was missed. The store reordering may cause problem in the scenario: CPU 0 CPU1 do_anonymous_page page_add_new_anon_rmap() page->mapping = anon_vma + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON lru_cache_add_inactive_or_unevictable() spin_lock(lruvec->lock) SetPageLRU() spin_unlock(lruvec->lock) /* idletacking judged it as LRU * page so pass the page in * page_idle_clear_pte_refs */ page_idle_clear_pte_refs rmap_walk if PageAnon(page) Johannes give detailed examples how the store reordering could cause trouble: "The concern is the SetPageLRU may get reorder before 'page->mapping' setting, That would make CPU 1 will observe at page->mapping after observing PageLRU set on the page. 1. anon_vma + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON That's the in-order scenario and is fine. 2. NULL That's possible if the page->mapping store gets reordered to occur after SetPageLRU. That's fine too because we check for it. 3. anon_vma without the PAGE_MAPPING_ANON bit That would be a problem and could lead to all kinds of undesirable behavior including crashes and data corruption. Is it possible? AFAICT the compiler is allowed to tear the store to page->mapping and I don't see anything that would prevent it. That said, I also don't see how the reader testing PageLRU under the lru_lock would prevent that in the first place. AFAICT we need that WRITE_ONCE() around the page->mapping assignment." [alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com: updated for comments change from Johannes] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e66ef2e5-c74c-6498-e8b3-56c37b9d2d15@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1604566549-62481-7-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@intel.com> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.