Re: [PATCH v3 10/12] mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma

From: domenico cerasuolo
Date: Mon Oct 23 2023 - 14:10:52 EST


Il giorno lun 23 ott 2023 alle ore 19:53 Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
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> On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:53:26 +0200 domenico cerasuolo <mimmocerasuolo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > Rebased to mm.git's current mm-stable, to resolve with removal of
> > > vma_policy() from include/linux/mempolicy.h, and temporary omission
> > > of Nhat's ZSWAP mods from mm/swap_state.c: no other changes.
> >
> > Hi Hugh,
> >
> > not sure if it's the rebase, but I don't see an update to
> > __read_swap_cache_async invocation in zswap.c at line 1078. Shouldn't we pass a
> > mempolicy there too?
>
> No change needed. zswap_writeback_entry() was passing a NULL for arg
> `vma' and it's now passing a NULL for arg `mpol'.

Problem is that alloc_pages_mpol is dereferencing mpol, when I test the zswap
writeback at 397148729f21edcf700ecb2a01749dbce955d09e it crashes, not sure if
I'm missing something.

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