On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 01:05:18AM -0600, Yu Zhao wrote: > We don't want to expose page to fast gup running on a remote CPU > before all local non-atomic ops on page flags are visible first. > > For anon page that isn't in swap cache, we need to make sure all > prior non-atomic ops, especially __SetPageSwapBacked() in > page_add_new_anon_rmap(), are order before set_pte_at() to prevent > the following race: > > CPU 1 CPU1 > set_pte_at() get_user_pages_fast() > page_add_new_anon_rmap() gup_pte_range() > __SetPageSwapBacked() SetPageReferenced()
Is there a particular codepath that has what you listed for CPU? After quick look, I only saw that we page_add_new_anon_rmap() called before set_pte_at(). -- Kirill A. Shutemov
