On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 12:59:42PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 01:15:10PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote: > > When splitting a huge migrating PMD, we'll transfer all the existing > > PMD bits and apply them again onto the small PTEs. However we are > > fetching the bits unconditionally via pmd_soft_dirty(), pmd_write() > > or pmd_yound() while actually they don't make sense at all when it's > > a migration entry. Fix them up. Since at it, drop the ifdef together > > as not needed. > > > > Note that if my understanding is correct about the problem then if > > without the patch there is chance to lose some of the dirty bits in > > the migrating pmd pages (on x86_64 we're fetching bit 11 which is part > > of swap offset instead of bit 2) and it could potentially corrupt the > > memory of an userspace program which depends on the dirty bit. > > > > CC: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> > > CC: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> > > CC: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]> > > CC: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> > > CC: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> > > CC: Dave Jiang <[email protected]> > > CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email protected]> > > CC: Souptick Joarder <[email protected]> > > CC: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]> > > CC: Zi Yan <[email protected]> > > CC: [email protected] > > CC: [email protected] > > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> > > Stable?
Sorry I missed the reply from Zi. I think it should be: CC: linux-stable <[email protected]> # 4.14+ Thanks, -- Peter Xu
