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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 28/10/26 2:37 pm, Hui Zhu wrote: > From: teawater > > KCSAN reports a data-race on nr_free which also exists on mainline: > > BUG: KCSAN: data-race in fast_isolate_freepages+0x284/0x1550 mm/compaction.c:1589 > > race at unknown origin, with read to 0xffff9894ff3dcb60 of 8 bytes by task 179078 on cpu 12: > fast_isolate_freepages+0x284/0x1550 mm/compaction.c:1589 > isolate_freepages+0x52/0x650 mm/compaction.c:1722 > compaction_alloc_noprof+0x36e/0x3e0 mm/compaction.c:1850 > compaction_alloc+0x21/0x30 mm/compaction.c:1880 > migrate_folio_unmap+0x7f/0x820 mm/migrate.c:1177 > migrate_pages_batch+0x37e/0x1200 mm/migrate.c:1762 > migrate_pages_sync+0xce/0x560 mm/migrate.c:1928 > migrate_pages+0x8c6/0xc20 mm/migrate.c:2037 > compact_zone+0x539/0x10b0 mm/compaction.c:2660 > compact_zone_order+0x1b8/0x230 mm/compaction.c:2795 > try_to_compact_pages+0x20b/0x630 mm/compaction.c:2851 > __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x98/0x2b0 mm/page_alloc.c:3722 > __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0x452/0xdf0 mm/page_alloc.c:4401 > __alloc_pages_noprof+0x28a/0x2d0 mm/page_alloc.c:4794 > alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0x1b1/0x470 mm/mempolicy.c:2270 > alloc_pages_noprof+0x7a/0xe0 mm/mempolicy.c:2347 > io_mem_alloc_compound io_uring/io_uring.c:2848 [inline] > io_pages_map+0xb9/0x330 io_uring/io_uring.c:2892 > io_allocate_scq_urings+0x231/0x300 io_uring/io_uring.c:3933 > io_uring_create+0x29c/0x9c0 io_uring/io_uring.c:4091 > io_uring_setup+0xb6/0x100 io_uring/io_uring.c:4203 > __do_sys_io_uring_setup io_uring/io_uring.c:4230 [inline] > __se_sys_io_uring_setup io_uring/io_uring.c:4224 [inline] > __x64_sys_io_uring_setup+0x66/0xe0 io_uring/io_uring.c:4224 > x64_sys_call+0x1816/0x1d90 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:426 > do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline] > do_syscall_64+0x70/0x2a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81 > entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0xe0 > > value changed: 0x00000000000002f4 -> 0x00000000000002f5 > > nr_free is only updated with zone->lock held, but fast_isolate_freepages() > and fast_find_migrateblock() read it locklessly to skip an order that has > no free pages. page_alloc.o is excluded from KCSAN, so the writer is not > instrumented and the report is of unknown origin. > > The race is benign: a stale zero only skips the order for this round, and > a stale non-zero just finds an empty MIGRATE_MOVABLE freelist under the > lock. Annotate both reads with data_race(), following commit > af1c31acc853 ("mm/vmstat: annotate data race for zone->free_area[order].nr_free"). > > No functional change intended. > > Signed-off-by: teawater teawater? What? > --- > mm/compaction.c | 12 ++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c > index f1b2060eb2016..499ec7ceaa3ed 100644 > --- a/mm/compaction.c > +++ b/mm/compaction.c > @@ -1601,7 +1601,11 @@ static void fast_isolate_freepages(struct compact_control *cc) > unsigned int order_scanned = 0; > unsigned long high_pfn = 0; > > - if (!area->nr_free) > + /* > + * Access to nr_free is lockless as it is only a hint; a stale > + * value is harmless. Use data_race to avoid KCSAN warning. > + */ The comment is noise, the reason of using data_race() is a well-known fact. Apart from that, do we have the same problem with zone_watermark_ok? It also uses area->nr_free without zone lock. > + if (!data_race(area->nr_free)) > continue; > > spin_lock_irqsave(&cc->zone->lock, flags); > @@ -2031,7 +2035,11 @@ static unsigned long fast_find_migrateblock(struct compact_control *cc) > unsigned long flags; > struct page *freepage; > > - if (!area->nr_free) > + /* > + * Access to nr_free is lockless as it is only a hint; a stale > + * value is harmless. Use data_race to avoid KCSAN warning. > + */ > + if (!data_race(area->nr_free)) > continue; > > spin_lock_irqsave(&cc->zone->lock, flags);