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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org,
	Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
	Matteo Croce <mcroce@linux.microsoft.com>,
	Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@linaro.org>,
	Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: Fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 02:15:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210412011532.GG2531743@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210411103318.GC2531743@casper.infradead.org>

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:33:18AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Basically, we have three aligned dwords here.  We can either alias with
> @flags and the first word of @lru, or the second word of @lru and @mapping,
> or @index and @private.  @flags is a non-starter.  If we use @mapping,
> then you have to set it to NULL before you free it, and I'm not sure
> how easy that will be for you.  If that's trivial, then we could use
> the layout:
> 
> 	unsigned long _pp_flags;
> 	unsigned long pp_magic;
> 	union {
> 		dma_addr_t dma_addr;    /* might be one or two words */
> 		unsigned long _pp_align[2];
> 	};
> 	unsigned long pp_pfmemalloc;
> 	unsigned long xmi;

I forgot about the munmap path.  That calls zap_page_range() which calls
set_page_dirty() which calls page_mapping().  If we use page->mapping,
that's going to get interpreted as an address_space pointer.

*sigh*.  Foiled at every turn.

I'm kind of inclined towards using two (or more) bits for PageSlab as
we discussed here:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/01000163efe179fe-d6270c58-eaba-482f-a6bd-334667250ef7-000000@email.amazonses.com/

so we have PageKAlloc that's true for PageSlab, PagePool, PageDMAPool,
PageVMalloc, PageFrag and maybe a few other kernel-internal allocations.

(see also here:)
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180518194519.3820-18-willy@infradead.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-12  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-10 20:52 [PATCH 0/1] Fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-10 20:52 ` [PATCH 1/1] mm: " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-11  9:43   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-04-11 10:33     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-12  1:15       ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2021-04-14  8:10         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-04-14 11:50           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-14 11:56             ` Ilias Apalodimas
2021-04-14 15:52             ` David Laight
2021-04-14 19:13             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-04-14 21:35               ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-14 21:56                 ` David Laight
2021-04-15 18:08                   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-04-15 18:21                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-15 21:11                       ` David Laight
2021-04-15 22:22                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-16  7:32                           ` David Laight
2021-04-16 11:05                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-16 15:27                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-16 17:08                       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-04-17  3:19                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-17 10:31                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-04-17 13:56                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-17 17:30                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-04-17 10:59                       ` David Laight
2021-04-19  6:34                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-19  7:15                         ` Ilias Apalodimas
2021-04-12 18:23     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-13  8:21       ` David Laight

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