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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, willy@infradead.org,
	liam.howlett@oracle.com,  lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com,
	mhocko@suse.com, vbabka@suse.cz,  hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	mjguzik@gmail.com, oliver.sang@intel.com,
	 mgorman@techsingularity.net, david@redhat.com,
	peterx@redhat.com,  oleg@redhat.com, dave@stgolabs.net,
	paulmck@kernel.org, brauner@kernel.org,  dhowells@redhat.com,
	hdanton@sina.com, hughd@google.com,  minchan@google.com,
	jannh@google.com, shakeel.butt@linux.dev,
	 souravpanda@google.com, pasha.tatashin@soleen.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@android.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] mm: make vma cache SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:08:07 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d0c5c2d-2963-489a-2376-8edaeb064de3@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJuCfpFd2_7q6pi1=G9B0VW5ynCWhkkDDA3PU293FPtT_CcBQA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 12 Nov 2024, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> 
> Thinking about this some more, I don't think this works. I'm relying
> on vma_start_read() to stabilize the vma, however the lock I'm taking
> is part of the vma which can be reused from under us. So, the lock I'm
> taking might be reinitialized after I take the lock...
> I need to figure out a way to stabilize the vma in some other manner
> before taking this lock.

(I'm not paying attention and following the patches, I just happened
to notice this remark: forgive me if I'm out of context and have
misunderstood, but hope this might help:)

But this is exactly the problem SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU was invented for.
You just have to be careful that the locks are initialized only when the
slab is first created (allocated from buddy), not reinitialized whenever
a new object is allocated from that slab.

Hugh

  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-13  5:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-12 19:46 [PATCH v2 0/5] move per-vma lock into vm_area_struct Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-12 19:46 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] mm: introduce vma_start_read_locked{_nested} helpers Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-13 14:10   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-11-13 15:30     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-12 19:46 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mm: move per-vma lock into vm_area_struct Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-13 14:28   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-11-13 14:45     ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-11-13 14:58       ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-11-13 15:09         ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-11-13 14:53     ` Mateusz Guzik
2024-11-13 14:59       ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-11-13 15:01     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-11-13 15:45       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-13 15:42     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-12 19:46 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: mark vma as detached until it's added into vma tree Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-13 14:43   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-11-13 15:37     ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-12 19:46 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] mm: make vma cache SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-13  2:57   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-13  5:08     ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2024-11-13  6:03       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-13  6:52         ` Hugh Dickins
2024-11-13  8:19           ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-13  8:58   ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-11-13 12:38     ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-11-13 13:57       ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-11-13 15:22         ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-11-13 15:25           ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-13 15:29             ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-11-13 15:47               ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-13 19:05                 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-14 16:18                   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-14 16:21                     ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-11-13 16:44           ` Jann Horn
2024-11-13 20:59             ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-11-13 21:23               ` Jann Horn
2024-11-12 19:46 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] docs/mm: document latest changes to vm_lock Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-12 19:51   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-11-13 14:46     ` Lorenzo Stoakes

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