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Some page flags (page->flags) were converted to page types
(page->page_types). A recent example is PG_hugetlb.
From the exclusive writer's perspective, e.g., a thread doing
__folio_set_hugetlb(), there is a difference between the page flag and
type APIs: the former allows the same non-atomic operation to be repeated
whereas the latter does not. For example, calling __folio_set_hugetlb()
twice triggers VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(), since the second call expects the type
(PG_hugetlb) not to be set previously.
Using add_hugetlb_folio() as an example, it calls __folio_set_hugetlb() in
the following error-handling path. And when that happens, it triggers the
aforementioned VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO().
if (folio_test_hugetlb(folio)) {
rc = hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio(h, folio);
if (rc) {
spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
add_hugetlb_folio(h, folio, false);
...
It is possible to make hugeTLB comply with the new requirements from the
page type API. However, a straightforward fix would be to just allow the
same page type to be set or cleared again inside the API, to avoid any
changes to its callers.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: d99e314 ("mm: turn folio_test_hugetlb into a PageType")
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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