Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2026-01-16

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Restore swap_space attr aviod krn panic

From: Kairui Song <hidden>
Date: 2026-01-15 09:25:25
Also in: linux-mediatek, linux-mm, lkml

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 8:14 AM [off-list ref] wrote:
From: "robin.kuo" <redacted>

Restore swap_space attr avoid krn panic
Also a nitpick, you may want to add "mm, swap:" prefix to the patch summary.
Commit 8b47299a411a ('mm, swap: mark swap address space ro and add
context debug check') made the swap address space read-only.
It may lead to kernel panic if arch_prepare_to_swap returns a failure
under heavy memory pressure as follows,

el1_abort+0x40/0x64
el1h_64_sync_handler+0x48/0xcc
el1h_64_sync+0x84/0x88
errseq_set+0x4c/0xb8 (P)
__filemap_set_wb_err+0x20/0xd0
shrink_folio_list+0xc20/0x11cc
evict_folios+0x1520/0x1be4
try_to_shrink_lruvec+0x27c/0x3dc
shrink_one+0x9c/0x228
shrink_node+0xb3c/0xeac
do_try_to_free_pages+0x170/0x4f0
try_to_free_pages+0x334/0x534
__alloc_pages_direct_reclaim+0x90/0x158
__alloc_pages_slowpath+0x334/0x588
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x224/0x2fc
__folio_alloc_noprof+0x14/0x64
vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio+0x34/0x44
do_pte_missing+0xad4/0x1040
handle_mm_fault+0x4a4/0x790
do_page_fault+0x288/0x5f8
do_translation_fault+0x38/0x54
do_mem_abort+0x54/0xa8

Restore swap address space as not ro to avoid the panic.
For a stable backport simply making it not RO is simpler and better.
We can do the cleanup and add debug attr as I mentioned in another
reply later.

So for this change with Cc stable:

Acked-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
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