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mbind(2) holds down_write of current task's mmap_lock throughout (exclusive because it needs to set the new mempolicy on the vmas); migrate_pages(2) holds down_read of pid's mmap_lock throughout. They both hold mmap_lock across the internal migrate_pages(), under which all new page allocations (huge or small) are made. I'm nervous about it; and migrate_pages() certainly does not need mmap_lock itself. It's done this way for mbind(2), because its page allocator is vma_alloc_folio() or alloc_hugetlb_folio_vma(), both of which depend on vma and address. Now that we have alloc_pages_mpol(), depending on (refcounted) memory policy and interleave index, mbind(2) can be modified to use that or alloc_hugetlb_folio_nodemask(), and then not need mmap_lock across the internal migrate_pages() at all: add alloc_migration_target_by_mpol() to replace mbind's new_page(). (After that change, alloc_hugetlb_folio_vma() is used by nothing but a userfaultfd function: move it out of hugetlb.h and into the #ifdef.) migrate_pages(2) has chosen its target node before migrating, so can continue to use the standard alloc_migration_target(); but let it take and drop mmap_lock just around migrate_to_node()'s queue_pages_range(): neither the node-to-node calculations nor the page migrations need it. It seems unlikely, but it is conceivable that some userspace depends on the kernel's mmap_lock exclusion here, instead of doing its own locking: more likely in a testsuite than in real life. It is also possible, of course, that some pages on the list will be munmapped by another thread before they are migrated, or a newer memory policy applied to the range by that time: but such races could happen before, as soon as mmap_lock was dropped, so it does not appear to be a concern. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/21e564e8-269f-6a89-7ee2-fd612831c289@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@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,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.