[PATCH gmem FIXUP] mm, compaction: make testing mapping_unmovable() safe

Matthew Wilcox willy at infradead.org
Sat Sep 2 23:59:24 AEST 2023


On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 10:20:26AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> As Kirill pointed out, mapping can be removed under us due to
> truncation. Test it under folio lock as already done for the async
> compaction / dirty folio case. To prevent locking every folio with
> mapping to do the test, do it only for unevictable folios, as we can
> expect the unmovable mapping folios are also unevictable - it is the
> case for guest memfd folios.
> 
> Also incorporate comment update suggested by Matthew.

In the meantime, 866ff80176aa went upstream earlier this merge window,
so it's going to have some conflicts.



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