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author | David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> | 2021-07-01 04:50:14 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-07-01 06:47:28 +0300 |
commit | 82840451936f0301781ece80322230fd8edfc648 (patch) | |
tree | 0566617b1a69a661f59dfeba39f9a065871c89a5 /mm | |
parent | 0daa322b8ff94d8ee4081c2c6868a1aaf1309642 (diff) | |
download | linux-82840451936f0301781ece80322230fd8edfc648.tar.xz |
mm: introduce page_offline_(begin|end|freeze|thaw) to synchronize setting PageOffline()
A driver might set a page logically offline -- PageOffline() -- and turn
the page inaccessible in the hypervisor; after that, access to page
content can be fatal. One example is virtio-mem; while unplugged memory
-- marked as PageOffline() can currently be read in the hypervisor, this
will no longer be the case in the future; for example, when having a
virtio-mem device backed by huge pages in the hypervisor.
Some special PFN walkers -- i.e., /proc/kcore -- read content of random
pages after checking PageOffline(); however, these PFN walkers can race
with drivers that set PageOffline().
Let's introduce page_offline_(begin|end|freeze|thaw) for synchronizing.
page_offline_freeze()/page_offline_thaw() allows for a subsystem to
synchronize with such drivers, achieving that a page cannot be set
PageOffline() while frozen.
page_offline_begin()/page_offline_end() is used by drivers that care about
such races when setting a page PageOffline().
For simplicity, use a rwsem for now; neither drivers nor users are
performance sensitive.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526093041.8800-5-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 40 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index a8bf17f18a81..a034525e7ba2 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -1010,3 +1010,43 @@ void mem_dump_obj(void *object) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mem_dump_obj); #endif + +/* + * A driver might set a page logically offline -- PageOffline() -- and + * turn the page inaccessible in the hypervisor; after that, access to page + * content can be fatal. + * + * Some special PFN walkers -- i.e., /proc/kcore -- read content of random + * pages after checking PageOffline(); however, these PFN walkers can race + * with drivers that set PageOffline(). + * + * page_offline_freeze()/page_offline_thaw() allows for a subsystem to + * synchronize with such drivers, achieving that a page cannot be set + * PageOffline() while frozen. + * + * page_offline_begin()/page_offline_end() is used by drivers that care about + * such races when setting a page PageOffline(). + */ +static DECLARE_RWSEM(page_offline_rwsem); + +void page_offline_freeze(void) +{ + down_read(&page_offline_rwsem); +} + +void page_offline_thaw(void) +{ + up_read(&page_offline_rwsem); +} + +void page_offline_begin(void) +{ + down_write(&page_offline_rwsem); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_offline_begin); + +void page_offline_end(void) +{ + up_write(&page_offline_rwsem); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_offline_end); |