Re: [PATCH v1 1/9] mm/memory: factor out zapping of present pte into zap_present_pte()

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Jan 30 2024 - 03:46:06 EST


On 30.01.24 09:13, Ryan Roberts wrote:
On 29/01/2024 14:32, David Hildenbrand wrote:
Let's prepare for further changes by factoring out processing of present
PTEs.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index b05fd28dbce1..50a6c79c78fc 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1532,13 +1532,61 @@ zap_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(vma, addr, pte, pteval);
}
+static inline void zap_present_pte(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma, pte_t *pte, pte_t ptent,
+ unsigned long addr, struct zap_details *details,
+ int *rss, bool *force_flush, bool *force_break)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = tlb->mm;
+ bool delay_rmap = false;
+ struct folio *folio;

You need to init this to NULL otherwise its a random value when calling
should_zap_folio() if vm_normal_page() returns NULL.

Right, and we can stop setting it to NULL in the original function. Patch #2 changes these checks, which is why it's only a problem in this patch.

Will fix, thanks!

--
Cheers,

David / dhildenb