[PATCH 2/7] mm: introduce local state for lazy_mmu sections
Lorenzo Stoakes
lorenzo.stoakes at oracle.com
Fri Sep 5 21:21:40 AEST 2025
On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 12:14:39AM +0200, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
> On 04/09/2025 19:28, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > Hi Kevin,
> >
> > This is causing a build failure:
> >
> > In file included from ./include/linux/mm.h:31,
> > from mm/userfaultfd.c:8:
> > mm/userfaultfd.c: In function ‘move_present_ptes’:
> > ./include/linux/pgtable.h:247:41: error: statement with no effect [-Werror=unused-value]
> > 247 | #define arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() (LAZY_MMU_DEFAULT)
> > | ^
> > mm/userfaultfd.c:1103:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode’
> > 1103 | arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > ./include/linux/pgtable.h:248:54: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token
> > 248 | #define arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(state) ((void)(state))
> > | ^
> > mm/userfaultfd.c:1141:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode’
> > 1141 | arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > It seems you haven't carefully checked call sites here, please do very
> > carefully recheck these - I see Yeoreum reported a mising kasan case, so I
> > suggest you just aggressively grep this + make sure you've covered all
> > bases :)
>
> I did check all call sites pretty carefully and of course build-tested,
> but my series is based on v6.17-rc4 - just like the calls Yeoreum
> mentioned, the issue is that those calls are in mm-stable but not in
> mainline :/ I suppose I should post a v2 rebased on mm-stable ASAP then?
You should really base on mm-new.
You need to account for everything that is potentially going to go
upstream. mm-stable is generally not actually populated all too well until
shortly before merge window anyway.
>
> - Kevin
Thanks, Lorenzo
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