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Hugh Dickins acdd9f8e0f huge tmpfs: SGP_NOALLOC to stop collapse_file() on race
khugepaged's collapse_file() currently uses SGP_NOHUGE to tell
shmem_getpage() not to try allocating a huge page, in the very unlikely
event that a racing hole-punch removes the swapped or fallocated page as
soon as i_pages lock is dropped.

We want to consolidate shmem's huge decisions, removing SGP_HUGE and
SGP_NOHUGE; but cannot quite persuade ourselves that it's okay to regress
the protection in this case - Yang Shi points out that the huge page would
remain indefinitely, charged to root instead of the intended memcg.

collapse_file() should not even allocate a small page in this case: why
proceed if someone is punching a hole?  SGP_READ is almost the right flag
here, except that it optimizes away from a fallocated page, with NULL to
tell caller to fill with zeroes (like a hole); whereas collapse_file()'s
sequence relies on using a cache page.  Add SGP_NOALLOC just for this.

There are too many consecutive "if (page"s there in shmem_getpage_gfp():
group it better; and fix the outdated "bring it back from swap" comment.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1355343b-acf-4653-ef79-6aee40214ac5@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-03 09:58:12 -07:00
arch mm/gup: remove try_get_page(), call try_get_compound_head() directly 2021-09-03 09:58:11 -07:00
block block-5.14-2021-08-27 2021-08-27 16:08:29 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto crypto: drbg - select SHA512 2021-07-16 15:49:31 +08:00
Documentation RISC-V Fixes for 5.14-rc7 2021-08-21 11:04:26 -07:00
drivers One hot fix for a NULL pointer deref in the Renesas usb clk driver 2021-08-29 12:52:17 -07:00
fs fs, mm: fix race in unlinking swapfile 2021-09-03 09:58:11 -07:00
include huge tmpfs: SGP_NOALLOC to stop collapse_file() on race 2021-09-03 09:58:12 -07:00
init init: Suppress wrong warning for bootconfig cmdline parameter 2021-08-12 13:35:57 -04:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -07:00
kernel - Have get_push_task() check whether current has migration disabled and 2021-08-29 10:54:14 -07:00
lib lib: use PFN_PHYS() in devmem_is_allowed() 2021-08-13 14:09:32 -10:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm huge tmpfs: SGP_NOALLOC to stop collapse_file() on race 2021-09-03 09:58:12 -07:00
net This is a one-liner fix for a serious bug that can cause the server to 2021-08-26 13:26:40 -07:00
samples Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.14 (2nd) 2021-08-07 10:03:02 -07:00
security bpf: Add lockdown check for probe_write_user helper 2021-08-10 10:10:10 +02:00
sound another sound-fixes for 5.14-rc7 2021-08-20 12:31:10 -07:00
tools Networking fixes for 5.14-rc7, including fixes from bpf, wireless and 2021-08-19 12:33:43 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Do not leak memory for duplicate debugfs directories 2021-08-04 06:02:03 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
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.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap m68k updates for v5.14 2021-06-28 14:01:03 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: exfat: update my email address 2021-08-25 12:25:12 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.14 2021-08-29 15:04:50 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.